Accolades
Congratulations to Charles Ellison (Music), who has been chosen as the recipient of the Martin Luther King Jr. Achievement Award for 2007 for his contributions to the life of the black community in Montreal. The award will be presented Jan. 27 at a gala organized by the Black Theatre Workshop.
Kai Lamertz (Management) received congratulations from the editor of the Canadian Journal of Administrative Science. His paper, co-authored with Joel Baum, titled “The legitimacy of organizational downsizing in Canada: An analysis of explanatory media accounts,” is the most cited article published in CJAS for the period 1993 to the present.
Congratulations to Peter Shizgal (Center for Studies in Behavioral Neurobiology), who has been elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The honour, which was initiated in 1874, is acknowledged with a certificate and rosette. Shizgal is being recognized for his empirical and theoretical work on the neurobiology of reward and choice behaviour in the rat and his application of that work to choice behaviour in humans. The presentation will be made in San Francisco on Feb. 17 at the AAAS Fellows Forum, part of the association’s annual meeting.
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Lucie Lequin (Études françaises) has been appointed to a three-year mandate to the Commission sur l’enseignement et la recherche universitaires of the Conseil supérieur de l’éducation. Last semester she delivered a series of lectures on Quebec literature at the universities of Seville, Barcelona, Madrid, Oviedo, Alicante and Castellon in Spain and at the Institut français in Valencia. Her lectures dealt with the writing of immigrants and their impact on Quebec literature and the representation of the family in the Quebec novel over the last 15 years.
Congratulations to Sydney Miller (Psychology), who was given the RBC-Banque Royale Award by the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Quebec for his research on strokes and stress.
Jennifer Perrin, an MSc candidate in Psychology, won the Brain Star Award from the Neuroscience, Mental Health and Addiction Institute of CIHR for her thesis. Like Elaine Waddington Lamont, whose doctoral thesis won her the gold medal at fall convocation, she was a student of Shimon Amir.
Nghi M. Nguyen (Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering) was invited by the Barbados Association of Professional Engineers (BAPE) to deliver a seminar on Project Technical Risk Management to its members and those of neighbouring islands’ engineering associations, held in October at the Amaryllis Beach Resort in Barbados. The seminar was organized as part of a weeklong 2006 Annual Convention of the Caribbean Council of Engineering Organisations. His presentation focused on how to effectively plan and control potential risks on construction projects.
A symposium on the artist Antoine Plamondon was held Nov. 30 by the McCord Museum and the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art in collaboration with the Department of Art History of UQAM. Sandra Paikowsky (Art History) and François-Marc Gagnon, of the Jarislowsky Institute, were among the speakers, and the moderator was Loren Lerner (Art History).