Accolades
Lucian Turcescu (Theology) has won an award from Choice magazine for two books to which he contributed chapters. In part because of this award, Columbia University Press have fast-tracked the preparation of a three-volume paperback version, called The Teachings of Modern Christianity on Law, Politics, and Human Nature. Turcescu is the president of the Canadian Society of Patristic Studies, and graduate program director in his department.
Congratulations to Thomas O'Connell (Management), named Coach of the Year by the John Molson Competition Committee of the JMSB. O'Connell has been coaching since Fall 1998 and was the coach of the Entrepreneurship team for 2006-07. The team came in second at the Jeux du Commerce 2007.
Congratulations to student David Zilberman, who has been named the outstanding wrestler of the year in Canada for his first-place finish at the World University Championships and fifth-place finish at the Senior World Championships. David was named outstanding male athlete in 2006 at the university. He is the son of Victor Zilberman, of Concordia and the Montreal Wrestling Club, who was named university wrestling coach of 2006 after an undefeated season.
Kudos to Denis Longchamps, a PhD candidate in art history, who has been recognized for his volunteer work by the Musée des maîtres et artisans du Québec. He was involved in organizing and giving tours of the exhibition on the 50th anniversary of the Salon des métiers d'art. He also co-organized the exhibition, symposium and the catalogue Re-Crafting Tradition (with Elaine Cheasley Paterson) and worked on another catalogue: On Creativity. At Concordia, Denis is the administrator of the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art.
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Michèle Thériault, Director/ Curator of the Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery at Concordia, has been chosen as one of nine judges for the 2007 RBC Canadian Painting Competition. She has organized numerous exhibitions both here and abroad, addressing critical issues in the work of Québécois, Canadian and international artists.
CBC’s Daybreak interviewed citizens of Notre Dame de Grâce who are proud of their canine waste composter. The rotating barrel, powered by a 12-volt battery, was designed for the neighborhood dog run by a group of Concordia engineering students as a capstone project. It’s generating some excellent material that can be used to fertilize flower gardens and lawns until testing confirms its safety for edible produce as well. It will produce an estimated 2,000 pounds of compost a year and save 7,000 to 8,000 plastic bags.
Ned Goodman, one of the Canada's outstanding business leaders, has been named Chancellor of Brock University, in St. Catharines, Ont. An adjunct professor in the JMSB, he supports the Goodman Institute, which prepares select applicants for the chartered financial analyst designation as well as the MBA.
Alumna Désirée McGraw was an environmental activist at Concordia, and she's still at it, according to The Gazette (April 16). As a student in the 1980s, she won awards and served on the Canadian delegation to the 1992 Earth Summit in Brazil. Then she worked as a consultant, researcher and university lecturer, and chief of staff to Canada's minister of international cooperation, and was appointed by the Liberal party to come up with a new policy on sustainable development, which produced a report last fall that has become the blueprint for the party's current environmental policy. Now she will be part of an unpaid army of presenters of Al Gore's famous slide show. She is the daughter of retired professor Jack McGraw.