Please note that effective Monday, February 6 2012, the Graduate Awards Office at the School of Graduate Studies will be open for drop-in visits from 2 pm to 5pm, Monday-Friday.
Appointments at other times can be made either by contacting one of the Awards Advisors, Sophy Khwaja, Dolly Grewal or by calling the School of Graduate Studies at 514-848-2424 extension 3800.
Connect Canada is an internship program that links Canadian companies with graduate students and post-doctoral fellows for research placements in all industry sectors across Canada. Paid R&D internships are a great way to enhance graduate research and theses, as well as establish contacts and gain first-hand experience in the working world. Regardless of the issue, the sector or the location, Connect Canada internships provide companies with cost-effective solutions developed by highly skilled graduate students under the supervision of an academic supervisor. Benefits of the program include:
For more information, please visit the CONNECT Canada website
Details of the Information Session:
Date: Thursday, February 9, 2012
Time: 10:00-12:00
Location: FG-C070 - 1616 Ste. Catherine Street
RSVP: awardsgs@alcor.concordia.ca by February 6th.
The School of Graduate Studies would like to congratulate all the supervisors whose PhD students graduated at the Fall 2011 convocations. Your dedication to your students and to graduate studies at Concordia is greatly appreciated.
Biology
Vladimir Titorenko (Alex Goldberg)
Communication
Charles Acland (Nicole Porter), Monika Kin Gagnon/Chantal Nadeau (Bruno Cornellier), Monika Kin Gagnon (Heather Davis), Leslie Shade/William Buxton (Mohamed Ben Moussa)
Economics
Paul Gommé (Yan Zhao), Nikolay Gospodinov (Hua Shang)
History
Steven High (Lindsay Pattison)
Humanities
Charles Acland (Peter Conlin), Erin Manning (Troy Rhoades), Bart Simon (Shanly Dixon, Cindy Poremba), Thomas Waugh (Jason Crawford)
Mathematics
José Garrido (Jun Zhou), José Garrido/Alejandro Balbás (Ramin Okhrati), Pawel Gora (Peyman Eslami), Wei Sun (Li Ma)
Psychology
Shimon Amir (Michael Verwey), Michael Conway (Giuseppe Alfonsi, Roxana Rachel Lowinger), Anna-Beth Doyle (Clairneige Motzoi), Michel Dugas (Kylie Francis), Mark Ellenbogen (Caroline Ostiguy), Syd Miller (Erwin Neumark), Virginia Penhune (Tal Savion-Lemieux)
Building Engineering
Andreas Athienitis (José Agustin Candanedo Ibarra), Andreas Athienitis/Ted Kesik (William O’Brien), Paul Fazio (Yang Li), Osama Moselhi/Tarek Zayed (Alaa Salman), Ted Stathopoulos (Ioannis G. Zisis), Tarek Zayed (Emad Elwakil, Nabil Semaan), Radu Zmeureanu (Danielle Monfet)
Computer Science & Software Engineering
Gregory Butler (Jianlong Qi), Volker Haarslev (Jocelyne Faddoul), Lata Narayanan (Antoniy Ganchev), Juergen Rilling (Philipp Schügerl)
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Anjali Agarwal (Ayoub Alsarhan, Ahed Alshanyour), Amir G. Aghdam/Khashayar Khorasani (Mani Megarpour Tousi), Asim Al-Khalili/Glenn Cowan (Seyed Ebrahim Esmaeili), Chadi Assi/Martin Maier (Seyed Mohammad Kiaei), Abdessamad Ben Hamza/Amr Youssef (Esam Elsheh), Brigitte Jaumard/Brigitte Kerhervé (Anis Ouali), Luiz A.C. Lopes (Reinaldo Tonkoski), Abdel R. Sebak (Osama Mohamed Haraz Ahmed), Abdel R. Sebak/Christopher W. Trueman (Aidin Mehdipour)
Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
Zezhong C. Chen (Mahmoud Rababah), Mamoun Medraj/Martin Pugh (Mohammed Shamekh), Sivakumar Narayanswamy/Muthukumaran Packirisamy (Mohammad Abu Hana Mustafa Kamal), Muthukumaran Packirisamy (Arvind Chandrasekaran), Marius Paraschivoiu (Reza Khaksarfard), Rolf Wuthrich (Anis Allagui)
Art History
Johanne Sloan (Luke Nicholson)
Administration
Gary Johns (Magda Donia), Dennis Kira (Daniel Tet Min Wong)
Business Administration
Gary Johns (Elena Lvina), Rick Molz (Catalin Ratiu)
As the new academic year gets underway I want to take this opportunity to welcome and welcome back all graduate students and postdoctoral fellows who have chosen to advance their studies and training at Concordia. For some of you the coming semesters will be your first exposure to graduate level courses and to new research or research-creation opportunities. For others, the months ahead will continue a path of studies and development that you have already begun, either at Concordia or elsewhere. I sincerely hope that for all of you the 2011-12 academic year will prove immensely stimulating and productive, personally enriching and professionally fulfilling.
This year I am pleased to announce several new initiatives aimed at supporting graduate students at Concordia. In August we launched GradProSkills, an innovative program of workshops, on-line resources and responsive learning options designed to enrich graduate’s academic experience and prepare their transition into a future career. Hosted by The School of Graduate Studies, GradProSkills is supported by more than 15 on-campus and external partners.
With support from the University, the School of Graduate Studies has also made substantial new funds available to support student travel to present research and research-creation projects at conferences and exhibitions. We have also greatly expanded our Thesis Accelerator funding to help Master’s and PhD students complete their degrees in a timely fashion. Beginning this fall we will also hold the first Graduate Mobility Awards competition. Working in collaboration with the Faculties and Concordia International these awards will be targeted to support program-related student travel elsewhere in Canada and abroad.
The University is also keenly aware of the particular financial challenges that many international students face when they choose to study in Québec. We have made a major new investment in tuition waivers to recruit top international PhD and MFA students and will be holding competitions in the fall 2011 to provide full and partial waivers for returning students.
Finally, over the course of the next year the School of Graduate Studies plans to host a number of fun events that will give graduate students and postdocs the opportunity to meet colleagues in other disciplines. So keep your eyes posted for invitations to participate in pecha kucha and three-minute thesis competitions!
On behalf of my associate deans, Drs Cameron Skinner and Paula Wood-Adams, the Office of the Vice-President Research and Graduate Studies, and our team at SGS, let me wish each and every one of you the best of academic success in the coming months. We look forward to hearing from you and about you, or to meeting you at one of the many academic or social events that will occur on our campuses!
Graham Carr
Dean of Graduate Studies
When visiting prospective employers, or simply attending a conference or an event, take along your PhD or Post Doctoral business cards. Though it is not always appropriate to bring your resume to a networking event, your business card can be an essential tool in creating and maintaining the right network contacts.
Only current Concordia University PhD (in good academic standing) and Post Doctoral fellows can order business cards.
Download the Business Card Order Form
In light of the newly-created Equal Opportunities Scholarship Program, Canada-Chile, up to 100 Chilean graduate students will receive funding from CONICYT to study at Canadian universities.
The scholarship includes tuition fees and living expenses, as well as four months of English language studies and roundtrip airfare, and is renewable up to two years for master studies, and four years for doctoral studies.
Please visit the Becas Chile website for further details on the application process.
Concordia University is well positioned to respond to research interests of Chilean students coming to Canada under the terms of the Equal Opportunities Scholarship Program. Located in the heart of dynamic Montreal, Canada, Concordia is an English-speaking, comprehensive university offering over 100 graduate programs. Established in 1974, Concordia is built on a strong foundation of accessibility to education which continues to this day in our extensive program choice, course selection and flexible scheduling options. Our more than 900 faculty members are engaged educators as well as passionate researchers, furthering some of the most exciting fields today. As a two-campus university, we allow our students a variety of learning environments, from the bustling urban atmosphere of our downtown Sir George Williams Campus to the sprawling green space and historic architecture of our Loyola Campus located just 20 minutes away in Montreal’s beautiful west end. As our campuses and learning community continue to grow so does commitment to creating a sustainable future for our students and our world.
Effective October 16, 2008, the grades for Concordia graduate courses transferred into a graduate program now appear on the student record and transcript and are calculated in the Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA). This helps in addressing the concerns expressed by students that their CGPA does not reflect their actual performance. For further information please contact your program your program or the School of Graduate Studies.
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