Accolades
Danielle Morin, Vice-Provost, Academic Programs, is a member of the five-person committee adjudicating the Prix du ministre, given to the best pedagogical book written in French for use in CEGEPs or universities. For the second year, thanks to Morin’s involvement, the adjudication was held at Concordia.
An article about nepotism that quoted Richard Bisaillon was published in The Gazette some time ago, and popped up again on working.canada.com. Nepotism was the subject of Bisaillon’s doctoral thesis.
An article by Bill Curran, Director of Libraries, has been published in Feliciter, the journal of the Canadian Library Association. Its title is “Reflections on the 8Rs Report and the Academic Library Community.” You will soon be able to access it online at here.
The principal architect of Concordia’s EV building and the future John Molson School of Business, Bruce Kuwabara, has won the 2006 Gold Medal given by the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada for his lifetime achievement. He is particularly well known in Toronto, where he designed the National Ballet School. He designed the Canadian embassy in Berlin, and is working on the future home of the Toronto International Film Festival Group. The award, Canada’s highest for architects, will be given in mid-June in Vancouver.
PHOTO: MARK HABER
Congratulations to the 32 students in Marketing, Accounting, Finance and International Business who made up the John Molson School of Business delegation to the Happening Marketing competition. Concordia came first overall in the games, held over the last weekend in March at UQAM. In the photo at right are the winners of first prize in the Integrated Marketing Communication category Tanya Saba, Marie-Noël Tourigny and Monique Chalifour. The teams, who competed in academic, sport, social and spirit events, were organized by Saba, Alexandre Rouleau, Geneviève Thibault and Simon Leblanc. It was the fourth year JMSB has won first place at this competition.
Charles Acland and William Buxton (Communication Studies) were invited to a conference on Intellectuals and Cultural Policy, organized by the Centre for Policy Studies at the University of Warwick and held at Coombe Abbey, near Coventry, England, last October. The papers they presented will be published in a special issue of the International Journal of Cultural Studies this July.
Guy Lachapelle (Political Science) was on CBC Radio’s The Current on April 17 in the wake of controversy over playwright Michel Tremblay’s pessimism about Quebec sovereignty. Lachapelle said Tremblay was wrong to criticize the current focus on economics, and said it was natural for the issue to have evolved along those lines.
Harold Simpkins (Marketing) and Bakr Ibrahim (Manage-ment/Entrepreneurship) were quoted in La Presse on people like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Ralph Lauren or Quebec’s Lino Saputo, who rose to the top without a university degree. “A business education can help, but it isn’t essential to succeed,” Simpkins said; vision and great willpower are. Jokingly, he quoted a magnate who said that after quitting school at 13, his greatest regret was that he didn’t quit sooner! However, Ibrahim noted that loaning institutions are much more exacting than they once were about the need for detailed business plans.