Accolades
Angela Vavassis, a master’s student in the Department of Psychology, was awarded a $1,000 (US) grant in aid of research from Sigma Xi, an international honour society of science and engineering. The funds, designated from the National Academy of Sciences, will be used to purchase non-standard lab equipment for her collaborative PhD research on the visual systems of humans (in Michael von Grünau's lab in the Centre for the Study of Learning Processes) and rats (in David Mumby's lab in the Centre for Studies in Behavioral Neurobiology).
Roy Bonin, who was Director of Libraries at Concordia in the early 1990s, has been appointed director of the University of Ottawa’s newly established School of Information Studies. He was president of the University of Sudbury.
William Buxton (Communication Studies) presented a paper entitled “From Robert Park's Ennobling Public to Paul G. Cressey's Edifying Movies: Continuities and Ruptures in Chicago Sociology's Engagement with Media and Mass Culture” at the annual meeting of the American Sociology Association in Montreal last August. A revised version of the paper will be published in Media Research and Its Histories: New Perspectives on the Contested Memory of the Field, edited by Jeff Pooley and David Park (Peter Lang, 2007).
Danielle Morin (Vice-Provost, Academic Programs) will be one of nine speakers at the day-long Women in Leadership Conference, to be held on April 17 at the Mount Stephen Club, 1440 Drummond St., by Femmes de carrière en interaction/Career Women Interaction. Her subject is mentoring, and how it can benefit women in their work environment.
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Stephen Snow, (at right) Coordinator of the Graduate Drama Therapy Program, gave a Power Point presentation developed with Miranda D'Amico (Education) on assessment and therapeutic theatre at the Medical School of the University of the West Indies in Kingston, Jamaica. He also met with the dean of the medical school and the head of psychiatry to discuss a potential exchange program with Concordia's Department of Creative Arts Therapies.
On March 27, Nadia Kherif, Media Relations Advisor, was part of a panel discussion titled Six femmes, six destins, un avenir commun au Québec that brought together six women from different cultures to promote dialogue. It took place at the Bibliothèque interculturelle de Côte-des-Neiges and attracted more than 200 people. The event was organized by the association Femmes Juives Francophones, of which Dina Azuelos, director of Translation Services, is a founding member.
Wah Wing Chan (Studio Arts in 1992, and Specialization in Printmaking in 1996) received an international purchase prize last fall from the 14th Seoul Space International Print Biennial. His carborundum print Figure morte was shown at the Seoul Museum of Art and is presently in the collection of Sukwoo Engineering Inc. Wing also participated in the Art & Paper Vll Biennial last summer at the Jean-Claude-Bergeron Gallery in Ottawa, where his print Lost (at right) was purchased into the collection of the newspaper Le Droit. His next solo exhibition will be at Wilder & Davis Gallery, 257 Rachel St. E., from May 4 to Aug. 3.
Works by Dennis Jones (Printmaking, retired) are on display at the Galerie d'Este, 1329 Greene Ave., until April 15.