Accolades
The recipient of this year's JMSB Distinguished Junior Research Award is Assistant Professor (Finance) Imants Paeglis. He will use the research grant to further his research on the influence founding families have on the financial decisions of their firms.
The 10th Annual Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science Teaching Excellence Award, full-time category, goes to Khaled Galal, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering, and in the part-time teaching category to Pierre Q. Gauthier, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering.
Congratulations to the winners of the Joe Kelly Graduate Award, which recognizes graduate students in the JMSB for the quality of their theses. This year, there were two recipients: Mark Cleveland, PhD, and Wendy Glaser, MSc.
Congratulations to Nabil Esmail, Dean of Engineering and Computer Science, who has been named a fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering. Established in 1987, this body comprises some 301 active and 91 emeritus members. The citation says, in part: “He has transformed the Faculty of Engineering & Computer Science of Concordia University into one of the largest centers of Canadian engineering academic training and research.”
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Congratulations to Sabah Toma Alkass, chair of the Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering, who was selected by the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering to receive the 2007 Walter Shanly Award “for outstanding contributions to the development and practice of construction engineering in Canada.” The presentation took place at the society's annual meeting, held June 6 to 9 in Yellowknife, N.W.T.
Norma Joseph, chair of the Department of Religion, was the subject of a profile in Lifestyles magazine, an international publication aimed at philanthropists. It told how she became a feminist while maintaining her Orthodox Judaism, and how she integrates the study of ritual, food, and feminism into her courses.
Hugh J. McQueen (Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Emeritus) was asked to speak in Kahnawake on June 2 about the collapse of the Quebec Bridge during its initial construction stage on Aug. 29, 100 years ago. Of the 75 men who were killed, 33 were from the First Nations reserve. The Canadian-designed and built cantilever bridge near Quebec City is the longest such span in the world.
Christine Jones (BFA 89) was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Scenic Design of a Musical for her work on Spring Awakening. After leaving Concordia, Jones got her MFA at New York University, where she now teaches. She also teaches at Princeton.
Financial reporter Don Macdonald of The Gazette used Suresh Goyal (Decision Sciences) to prove that “you don’t have to be a rocket scientist” to manage your own investments. “He and his wife arrived in Canada from England in 1982 with $5,000 in savings between them.” They now have more than $1 million. Goyal told the reporter he learned investing not as an academic discipline, but from newspaper articles, books and his own mistakes.