Accolades
Elaine Waddington Lamont is the first Concordia student to receive the Brain Star Award from the Institute of Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction. The award recognizes excellence in research by Canadian graduate students in those fields, and is accompanied by a $1,000 prize. Lamont completed her PhD in the Psychology Department last fall under the guidance of Shimon Amir, and recently started a postdoctoral fellowship at McGill.
Two Concordia alumni were recently appointed to Stephen Harper’s cabinet. Lawrence Cannon (BA 71, Loyola College) is the Member of Parliament for the Quebec riding of Pontiac, and was named Minister of Transport, Infrastructure, and Communities. Gordon O’Connor (BSc 65, Sir George Williams University) is Canada’s new Minister of National Defence and represents the Ottawa riding of Carleton-Mississippi Mills.
A conference was held Feb. 11 to 14 in Montreal of the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education, District I. CASE is an international organization for fundraising, marketing, alumni affairs, recruitment and communications professionals at universities. Sandra-Lynn Spina (Marketing Communications) was the chair, and about a dozen Concordia staff members helped to organize the event. Speakers included Adrian Tsang (Biology), and John Parisella (University Communications) Chris Mota (Media Relations) and Spina. Publications awards were won by the President’s Report, 2003-04, and Concordia’s Thursday Report, 2005-06.
Classics scholar Annette Teffeteller hosted a workshop in January on Bronze Age Anatolian, Levantine and Aegean archaeology, scripts and languages, and on Greek literature, history and mythical traditions. To quote one of the participants, they spent “two 12-hour days . . . examining the origins of the east-west cultural conflict that still plagues our world.”
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Ethiopia: A Comprehensive Bibliography (G.K. Hall/Macmillan), a book by Paulos Milkias, (right) has been cited by the Oxford Guide to Library Research. Milkias, who teaches African history, is associate editor of Thomas Nelson’s New Christian Dictionary, and has just published The Battle of Adwa: Reflections on Ethiopia’s Historic Victory against European Colonialism, which he wrote in collaboration with Getachew Metaferia of Morgan State University.
He has also published three articles in refereed journals. Two, “The Great Purge and Ideological Paradox in Ethiopian Politics” and “Shattering the Myth: Why Ethiopian Civilization is African and not South Arabian,” were published in the Horn of Africa Journal, Rutgers University. Another, “U.S. Foreign Policy Towards Africa,” was published in the International Journal of Ethiopian Studies, Hollywood, California.
Suresh K. Goyal (Decision Sciences) spoke at a seminar on leadership at the Hindu temple in Dollard des Ormeaux. He reports, "It was a very satisfying experience to help out the Indian community, as well as making them more aware of Concordia and the John Molson School of Business."
Ross Perigoe (Journalism) received his PhD from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in December. His thesis is called The Invisible Enemy: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Representation of Muslims in The Gazette Newspaper, Montreal, Canada, September 11 – 30, 2001.