Accolades
Jean Mayer (Political Science) attended the twenty-sixth International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) from March 15 to 18 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He was involved in five panels, acted as interim chair for the Labor Studies Section, and ran the Section’s business meeting. He also presented a paper titled “Still Corporatism? State-Labor Relations in Mexico after the Democratic Transition.”
The Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science was featured in an article in Le Devoir on March 25. Dean Nabil Esmail highlighted the faculty's rapid growth, impressive research profile and goals for the future. President Claude Lajeunesse said the faculty is among the best in the country.
Frank Chalk (History) was interviewed live regarding the next moves in resolving the Darfur crisis by George Stroumboulopoulos, host of CBC television’s current affairs show, The Hour. He spoke as part of Marianopolis College’s Genocide Day on March 21 about how the media in Sudan interpret the Darfur crisis. He was also quoted in an article in the Globe and Mail on the reputation of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia following the death of Slobodan Milosevic before the conclusion of his trial.
PhD student Sushil Bhakar won the Silver Award in the category of Physical Sciences, Mathematics and Engineering at a competition held by the Quebec National University Research Forum in Sherbrooke last month. He presented his research, entitled “Think 3D: Faxes, Scanners, and Whatnot.” Bhakar, who works under the supervision of Sudhir Mudur in the Department of Computer Science, was one of 16 finalists from across Quebec in his category.
Concordia’s Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery has won the catalogue Grand Prize in the prestigious Grafika Graphic Design Contest for the volume that accompanied the exhibition 3 Paintings. 1 Sculpture. 3 Spaces. Claude Tousignant. Black Grey White. Published in 2005, the catalogue featured three different covers in those colours.
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Nicolas Baier, the former student who designed the leafy exterior of the EV building (right), has a show of his photographs at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. He persuaded the museum to let him place his works among the works in the permanent collection, where they play off one another. The museum’s website says, “Baier played the game by instinct, his swift decisions apparently taken with a fine disregard for the outcome of this playing about with the treasures of the past.”
Marguerite Mendell, Vice-Principal of the School of Community and Public Affairs, is director of the committee organizing a public symposium on the economy of the Saguenay region. With the help of video-conferencing, exchanges with specialists and workshop discussions took place over two weekends in March, and will culminate in a plenary session in Montreal on May 5 and 6. The event is organized by the Institut du Nouveau Monde, a non-profit, non-partisan group that encourages public discussion in Quebec.
James Gavin (Applied Human Sciences) was on CTV with reporter Todd van der Hayden on March 10. He talked about his work with the Montreal YMCA on matching personality and sport profiles to increase physical activity among inactive individuals.