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Concordia University’s Mission Statement

Concordia University is welcoming, engaged, and committed to innovation and excellence in education, research, creative activity and community partnerships. It dares to be different and draws on its diversity to transform the individual, strengthen society and enrich the world.

Message from the Vice-President, Research and Graduate Studies

Welcome to graduate studies at a time in our development that is extremely vibrant and dynamic. The intellectual vitality can be felt in the labs, classrooms, studios and corridors of Concordia. With over 6,500 graduate students enrolled in more than 100 graduate programs, we span a diverse range of fields across the arts, humanities, natural and social sciences, engineering, commerce and administration, as well as interdisciplinary studies.

Graduate studies at Concordia has a driving momentum which is palpable and is evidenced by its dynamic student population, its seasoned faculty members, an impressive cohort of new faculty and the construction of state-of-the-art facilities, all contributing to its growing reputation nationally and internationally. Located in the multicultural metropolis of Montreal, the University has two distinct and vibrant campuses that strive to foster a supportive, stimulating and enriching academic environment.

The School of Graduate Studies works collaboratively with departments in all four Faculties (Arts and Science, Engineering and Computer Science, Fine Arts and the John Molson school of Business) to enhance the quality of graduate students’ experiences at all levels. I strongly believe that graduate training at Concordia University brings the perfect combination of knowledge, skills and spirit of inquiry needed to inspire and prepare all students for challenges ahead.

Dr. Louise Dandurand
Vice-President, Research and Graduate Studies

Mission Statement

The School of Graduate Studies provides leadership and support to the university community in its quest for the advancement of knowledge and academic achievement. It promotes creative initiatives in scholarly research, artistic expression, teaching and training. The School fosters an inclusive, pluralistic perspective and it upholds high standards across all graduate programs at Concordia. In its pursuit of excellence, the School advocates an open and flexible approach to graduate education.

The University

Concordia University is an English-language university located in the city of Montreal, the second largest French-speaking city in the world. Montreal is located on an island in the heart of the St. Lawrence Valley. It dates back to the 17^th century and is built around a mountain in the centre of the island known as Mont-Royal. The city is within an hour’s drive of the states of New York and Vermont in the U.S.A., and within an hour’s drive of a myriad of lakes and ski resorts in the Laurentian mountains and the Eastern Townships.

Few cities are as exciting and multi-dimensional as Montreal. As one of the great cities of the world, it has a famous hockey team, world class art galleries, an excellent metro system and some of the finest shops this side of the Atlantic. Montreal is a major financial, business, and industrial centre. It is also a “Cité Universitaire” par excellence. The four universities and affiliated schools and the numerous colleges scattered throughout the city make Montreal a world centre of higher learning and an attractive city for major research oriented companies.

Montreal is, for example, the centre of the Canadian aerospace industry.

The University has two campuses: the Sir George Williams Campus in the heart of the city, and the Loyola Campus, nestled in a tranquil setting near Montreal West. Our graduate programs are offered on both campuses. The two campuses are connected by the door-to-door shuttle bus service operated by the university, and by the bus and metro system of the city of Montreal.

The academic units of the University are grouped into the Faculties of Arts and Science, Engineering and Computer Science, Fine Arts, the John Molson School of Business and the School of Graduate Studies. The School is an umbrella structure which is responsible for the graduate programs of the University and for the students enrolled in these programs.

Concordia has over 32,000 undergraduate and 6,500 graduate students who come from all walks of life and from all over the world. History has endowed the university with a special mission in this bilingual and multicultural environment: the university provides one of the main academic and cultural windows between the two linguistic traditions of Canada.

Concordia has a graduate program repertoire and the academic climate that suit diverse academic interests and ambitions. The University is solidly integrated into the network of Montreal universities. Many of our professors collaborate with their colleagues at the Université de Montréal, Université du Québec and the Universities of Sherbrooke and Laval, and with professors at McGill, the other English-language university of Montreal. Our students benefit from these links. At the graduate level there are formal alliances between the Montreal universities through the joint PhD programs in Administration, Art History, Communication, and Religion. Other such joint ventures are under development.

The interaction between the City of Montreal, the business community, and the universities is excellent. The Chambre de commerce awards a Prix d’excellence for the best PhD thesis in Natural Science and Engineering, Humanities and Health Science written by a student at Concordia, McGill, Université de Montréal, Université du Québec à Montréal, l’école des Hautes études Commerciales, or l’école Polytechnique. The winners, who are chosen by a jury which includes the Deans of Graduate Studies of the four Montreal universities, become members of the distinguished group of grands montréalais.

Graduate Studies and Research

Research and the Training of Highly Qualified Personnel

Concordia University is an important and innovative contributor to new knowledge. Throughout the University investigations are underway in areas as diverse as environmental and business sustainability, social behaviour, cultural and industrial technology, the arts, and corporate and public affairs. Research and the training of highly qualified personnel are integral components of Concordia’s academic mission and commitment to innovation. State-of-the-art facilities, equipment and technology, as well as research-intensive groups characterize Concordia’s dynamic research environment.

Graduate students from across Concordia’s three Faculties and John Molson School of Business benefit from Concordia’s research and training infrastructure in numerous ways – such as training for work in clinical settings, working closely with faculty members in the use of highly specialized scientific equipment, conducting research in laboratories, collaborating with industry and community partners, and working in teams on cutting-edge multidisciplinary research.

Centres, institutes, and other research-intensive groups constitute an integral part of Concordia’s research and graduate programs over a very wide range of disciplines from the humanities to engineering. A few examples will serve to outline the role of these units in the academic life of the University.

Concordia University Research Units

The scope of Concordia’s research-intensive areas reflects the University’s status as a comprehensive university. Researchers are making important contributions toward understanding, adapting to, and shaping the myriad social, cultural, environmental, and technological transformations taking place locally as well as worldwide. The research units below are listed under the major areas of research and creative activity at the University. Concordia’s research units foster multidisciplinary collaborations within the university as well as externally with industry and community partners.

Cluster 1: The Person and Society

Development and Well-being across the Lifespan and across Life Domains
Human well-being and quality of life is predicated upon a balance of such factors as health, the ability to learn, and the ability to function in society. The importance of learning, behaviour, and health across the human lifespan are of inherent importance to us as individuals and as members of a global, information-driven society facing unprecedented population expansion and transformation. Optimizing the performance and well-being of humans across different life domains, such as education, work, sports and exercise, family, financial welfare, and consumer domains, is crucial to the health of Canadian society.

Center for Research in Human Development

Centre for Biological Applications of Mass Spectrometry

Centre for Human Relations and Community Studies

Centre for Research in Molecular Modeling

Centre for Studies in Behavioural Neurobiology

Centre for the Arts in Human Development

Centre for the Study of Learning and Performance

NanoScience Group

Identity, Expression, and Culture
Understanding human diversity and identity, as well as the many expressions thereof, are critical in a multicultural world. New information and communication technologies in particular are rapidly and continuously transforming our lives, reshaping how we interact and express ourselves, and affecting how we represent the world around us. Communication studies, cultural production and analysis, and gender and sexuality studies are areas of research and creativity at Concordia well known for cross-faculty collaboration and social impact. Analysis, creation, production, and social engagement activities characterize the diverse range of knowledge generation, co-generation, and transfer in this thematic area.

Centre for Technoculture, Art and Games

Concordia Centre for Broadcasting Studies

Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art

Hexagram-Concordia

Human Systems in a Global World
Uncertainty, complexity, conflict, resilience, and adaptive capacity are central considerations in understanding and responding to change in the context of today’s global environment. These themes are relevant to the development of sustainable social, cultural, political, financial, economic, and geo-physical systems. Understanding the financing of technological change, and how business, financial, technological and environmental risk is valued, is critical to the success of many organizations. The impact of such factors on industry and technological innovation has far-reaching implications for all sectors of the economy. The ability to respond effectively to such global driving forces is important to society at the local, national, and international levels.

Bell Research Centre for Business Process Innovations

Centre for Ethnographic Research and Exhibition in the Aftermath of Violence

Centre for Multidisciplinary Business Research

Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling

Concordia Institute for Canadian Jewish Studies

David O’Brien Centre for Sustainable Enterprise

Desjardins Centre for Innovation in Business Finance

InterNeg Research Centre

Karl Polanyi Institute of Political Economy

Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies

School of Canadian Irish Studies

Cluster 2: Technology, Industry, and the Environment

Enabling Technologies and their Basic Foundations
Many of the most transformative incremental and breakthrough advances shaping society today are the result of research and development done in the area of enabling technologies and their foundational precursors, mathematics and computational methods. Concordia has significant strengths in information and communication technologies including wireless communications and networks, information technology (IT) security, and computational interactive media, and bioinorganic and computational chemistry. The application of new tools for measurement and modelling, as well as the storage and retrieval of information, is pivotal to most areas of human activity, including science and technology, business, health, and the environment. Developments in these areas are at the heart of many of the technology-based approaches to building sustainable systems today.

Centre for Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence

Centre for Signal Processing and Communications

Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology
Concordia offers world-class research programs in advanced materials, nanotechnology, manufacturing, and transportation. Extensive partner-driven research is conducted in the areas of materials and composites, polymers, coatings, the electronic and optical properties of nano/micro-electro-mechanical systems (NEMS/MEMS), thermo-fluid and computational fluid dynamics, and laser metrics – particularly as they apply to the aerospace industry and vehicle engineering. New sectoral applications are now emerging to include pharmaceuticals, medical devices, food processing, and environmental technologies.

Concordia Centre for Advanced Vehicle Engineering

Concordia Centre for Composites

Energy, Environment, and Bioproducts
The global imperative to meet the challenges of environmental destabilization begins with a recognition that human well-being depends on the environment and adopting sustainable systems. Concordia’s strengths in this area have been developed through a multi-pronged approach to research areas related to energy, environment, bioproducts, and sustainable design. This includes understanding how to adapt to climate change; the development of alternative, renewable, and sustainable sources of energy; energy-efficient buildings and construction technology; and, bioproduct development.

Centre for Building Studies

Centre for Structural and Functional Genomics

Solar Buildings Research Network

External Affiliations and Collaborations

Concordia researchers are making important contributions to new knowledge through membership in leading edge regional and national networks. These affiliations span a diverse range of research and creative activity from studies in text, image, and the imagination (Figura) to theoretical and applied research in finance (Institut de finance mathématique de Montréal). Access to high computing facilities accelerates research in life sciences, materials science and the environment (Réseau québécois de calcul de haute performance, Compute Canada). Partnered research is generating dramatic results in terms of improved performance at lower cost in many areas of microsystems applications (Regroupement Stratégique en Microsystèmes du Québec). R&D activities in alternative sources of energy from biomass conversion to fuel (NSERC Bioconversion Network), to the development of new hydrogen energy technologies (NSERC Hydrogen Canada Strategic Research Network), are making a significant impact in the area of applied environmental sustainability.

Research Chairs

Concordia University’s research chairs constitute an integral part of the Concordia research enterprise and the training of the next generation of highly qualified practitioners and scholars. From constructing sustainable housing systems and developing viable bio-fuels, to designing genocide prevention models, creating new media technologies, and examining norms for corporate governance and accountability, Concordia’s researchers are breaking new ground in these and numerous other areas all the time. The Canada and Concordia University Research Chairs programs enable post-secondary institutions such as Concordia to attract and retain the brightest minds in research, scholarship, and creative activity in a wide variety of subject areas. Below you will see brief descriptions of each of the research chairs. To learn more about these researchers, and for a complete and updated listing of all of Concordia’s chairs, you are invited to visit the Office of the Vice-President, Research and Graduate Studies’ website: vprgs.concordia.ca

Dr. Phil Abrami
Concordia University Research Chair in Education (Tier 1)
Department of Education
Centre for the Study of Learning and Performance
abrami@education.concordia.ca
Dr. Abrami’s main research interests include technology integration, systemic reviews and evidence-based practice, and the social psychology of education.

Dr. Charles Acland
Concordia University Research Chair in Communication Studies (Tier 2)
Department of Communication Studies
c.acland@concordia.ca
Dr. Acland’s areas of research include media and cultural theory, film and television studies, cultural history, visual technology, and taste formations.

Dr. Omair Ahmad
Concordia University Research Chair in Multimedia Signal Processing (Tier 1)
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
omair@ece.concordia.ca
Dr. Ahmad’s research interests include algorithms and architectures for speech, image and video processing, and the general area of digital signal processing (DSP). He is also engaged in conducting research in very large scale integration (VLSI) circuit design of DSP applications.

Dr. Shimon Amir
Concordia University Research Chair in Psychology (Tier 1)
Department of Psychology
Center for Studies in Behavioral Neurobiology
shimon.amir@concordia.ca
Dr. Amir’s research interests are primarily in the area of circadian rhythms, modes and mechanisms of plasticity within the circadian system, and how external and internal time signals gain access to, and regulate the activity of, brain circadian oscillators.

Dr. Andreas K. Athienitis
Concordia University Research Chair in Integration of Solar Energy Systems into Buildings (Tier 1)
Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Solar Buildings Research Network
aathieni@encs.concordia.ca
Dr. Athienitis’ research interests include solar energy engineering, energy efficiency, optimization and control of building thermal systems, and building integrated photovoltaics and daylighting.

Professor Sandeep Bhagwati
Canada Research Chair in Inter-X Art Practice and Theory (Tier 2)
Department of Theatre/Department of Music
Matralab (Music/Movement/Media Art Theatre/Theory Research Agency)
sbhagwat@alcor.concordia.ca
Sandeep Bhagwati’s research interests include interdisciplinary ‘comprovisation,’ permutational live-dramaturgy, and experimental performance technologies.

Dr. William M. Bukowski
Concordia University Research Chair in Psychology (Tier 1)
Department of Psychology
Centre for Research in Human Development
william.bukowski@concordia.ca
Dr. Bukowski’s research is in the area of social development and has examined age, sex, and cultural differences in the effects that experiences with peers have on behaviour, emotional well-being, and health.

Dr. John Capobianco
Concordia University Research Chair in Nanoscience (Tier 1)
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
NanoScience Group
capo@alcor.concordia.ca
Dr. Capobianco’s research focuses on the synthesis, characterization and spectroscopy of lanthanide doped nanoparticles. Of particular interest are upconverting nanoparticles that are capable of converting near-infrared into visible light.

Dr. Michael Carney
Concordia University Research Chair in Strategy and Entrepreneurship (Tier 1)
Department of Management
mcarney@jmsb.concordia.ca
Dr. Carney’s research focuses on entrepreneurship and the comparative analysis of business, financial and governance systems and their influence upon the development of firm capabilities and strategic assets, and national competitiveness.

Dr. Vašek Chvátal
Canada Research Chair in Combinatorial Optimization (Tier 1)
Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering
chvatal@cs.concordia.ca
Dr. Chvátal’s major current research interests are branching rules and hybrid algorithms in combinatorial optimization. Minor ones are the abstract ternary relation of betweenness and its concrete manifestation in metric spaces. In addition, Dr. Chvátal is beginning to explore computational neuroscience.

Dr. Mourad Debbabi
Concordia University Research Chair in Information Systems Security (Tier I)
Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering
Computer Security Laboratory
debbabi@ciise.concordia.ca
Dr. Debbabi is currently leading major research initiatives in software security, cyber forensics, and cyberspace safeguarding, while simultaneously participating in the creation of successful academic graduate programs in information systems security and quality systems engineering.

Dr. Todd Eavis
Concordia University Research Chair in Online Analytical Processing for Tera-scale Parallel Databases (Tier 2)
Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering
eavis@cs.concordia.ca
Dr. Eavis’ primary research focus is the design and implementation of parallel algorithms for high performance data warehousing. His recent projects deal, or have dealt, with algorithms and methods for parallel data warehouses, online analytical processing, and data warehousing system issues. Of particular interest is the integration of parallel data warehousing architectures with the new, geographically distributed Grid computing model.

Dr. Mark Ellenbogen
Canada Research Chair in Developmental Psychopathology (Tier 2)
Department of Psychology
Centre for Research in Human Development
mark.ellenbogen@concordia.ca
Dr. Ellenbogen’s current research focuses on developmental psychopathology, including multidisciplinary longitudinal research examining the developmental antecedents of maladjustment and psychopathology, particularly depression and bipolar disorder. Other areas of interest include the study of hormones, stress, and social functioning, and their relationship to emotional information processing and major depression.

Dr. Ann English
Concordia University Research Chair in Bioinorganic Chemistry (Tier 1)
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Centre for Biological Applications of Mass Spectrometry
english@alcor.concordia.ca
Aspects of Dr. English’s research focus on how organisms exploit the chemistry of small, reactive molecules such as hydrogen peroxide and nitric oxide to combat oxidative stress and control blood flow. Understanding the biotransformations of these molecules, as well as the enzymes involved in their catalysis, is critical in the development of therapeutics for age-related neurodegeneration and cardiovascular disease.

Dr. Ali Ghrayeb
Concordia University Research Chair on High-Speed Wireless Communications (Tier 2)
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
aghrayeb@ece.concordia.ca
Dr. Ghrayeb’s research interests include digital and wireless communications, error correcting coding, multiple-input multiple-output systems, code division multiple access systems, linear and nonlinear equalization, signal processing and coding for data transmission and storage.

Dr. Bianca Grohmann
Concordia University Research Chair in Consumer Research (Tier 2)
Department of Marketing
Laboratory for Sensory Research
bgrohmann@jmsb.concordia.ca
Dr. Grohmann’s research is in the area of sensory marketing. She examines how visual, olfactory, auditory, and tactile cues affect consumer perceptions and behavior in the context of retail environments and branding. Her current research focuses on the role of sensory information in shaping brand perceptions. Dr. Grohmann also develops measurement scales that help researchers and marketers in the assessment of consumers’ perceptions of brands.

Dr. Fariborz Haghighat
Concordia University Research Chair in Energy and Environment (Tier 1)
Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering
haghi@bcee.concordia.ca
Dr. Haghighat’s research specialties include indoor environment, energy, and integrated building design. His current research focuses on the fundamentals of heat and mass transfer, their applications in building and ventilation systems, and the optimization of performance as well as the development of novel computational techniques for building thermal, airflow, and air quality analysis.

Dr. Walaa Hamouda
Concordia University Research Chair in Data Communications and Networking (Tier 2)
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
hamouda@ece.concordia.ca
Dr. Hamouda’s research is in wireless communications, channel coding, adaptive antennas, spread spectrum systems, and satellite communications. His projects have tackled source compression, multiple-input multiple-output wireless systems, and wireless local area network technologies.

Dr. Donal Hickey
Canada Research Chair in Genome Evolution (Tier 1)
Department of Biology
dhickey@alcor.concordia.ca
Dr. Hickey has been focusing much of his attention on researching the patterns of genome evolution using bioinformatics tools, the results of which will be relevant to molecular medicine and environmental protection.

Dr. Steven High
Canada Research Chair in Public History (Tier 2)
Department of History
Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling
shigh@alcor.concordia.ca
Dr. High specializes in oral history, urban change, deindustrialization, and Canada-United States relations. He is on the Board of Directors for the Labor and Working Class History Association and is the principal investigator on a major community-university research alliance examining the life stories of refugees who have come to Montreal to escape large-scale violence.

Dr. Suong Van Hoa
Concordia University Research Chair in Materials and Composites (Tier 1)
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Concordia Centre for Composites
hoasuon@alcor.concordia.ca
Dr. Hoa is one of the most recognized names in composites and materials research in Canada. He currently has many projects in progress, with a particular emphasis on composite materials and structures, the development of nanocomposites, stress analysis, and the design of materials and structures in collaboration with major aircraft companies in Canada.

Dr. Nina Howe
Concordia University Research Chair in Early Childhood Development and Education (Tier 1)
Department of Education
Centre for Research in Human Development
nina.howe@education.concordia.ca
Dr. Howe’s research program has developed in two distinct but complementary tracks: (1) children’s early social relationships, particularly sibling relations, and (2) early childhood education, specifically children’s play, curriculum, professional development, and knowledge transfer.

Professor Lynn Hughes
Concordia University Research Chair in Interactive Design and Games Innovation
Department of Studio Arts
Hexagram Institute for Research/Creation in Media Arts and Technologies
lynnh@alcor.concordia.ca
Professor Hughes’ current interdisciplinary research focuses on interactive media and emerging models of gaming. She is Co-Director of the Interstices research/creation group and was instrumental in the conception, structuring and funding of Hexagram, an inter-university initiative that brings together artists and other researchers in media art and technology to share their knowledge, expertise, and resources. She has been producing and exhibiting work in a range of different media for over twenty years.

Dr. Kristina Huneault
Concordia University Research Chair in Art History
Department of Art History
huneault@alcor.concordia.ca
Dr. Huneault is now actively researching a number of areas in art history including the relation between art and subjectivity, and art historical methodology. She is establishing the Canadian Women Artists History Initiative, a documentation centre and research group in the Faculty of Fine Arts.

Dr. Satoshi Ikeda
Canada Research Chair in Political Sociology of Global Futures (Tier 2)
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
sikeda@alcor.concordia.ca
Dr. Ikeda studies the political sociology of global futures, sustainable agriculture, and Japan and East Asia using the method of Polanyi-Hopkins historical sociology informed by the world-system perspective. Development and international economics informs his study on the global structure of accumulation and governance. His study seeks alternatives to neoliberal globalization that are sustainable ecologically, socially, and economically.

Dr. Adrian Iovita
Canada Research Chair in Research in Number Theory (Tier 2)
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
iovita@mathstat.concordia.ca
Dr. Iovita’s research area is the highly specialized field of number theory as well as arithmetic algebraic geometry. Being credited with discovering proofs of various conjectures, he has been invited to give talks at several prestigious international conferences.

Dr. Brigitte Jaumard
Concordia University Research Chair on the Optimization of Communication Networks (Tier 1)
Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering
bjaumard@ciise.concordia.ca
Dr. Jaumard focuses on mathematical modelling and operations research techniques for optimizing the design, planning and management of communication networks. She is also interested in some areas of artificial intelligence, namely reasoning under uncertainty, multi-agent systems, and game theory versus automated mechanism design.

Dr. Gary Johns
Concordia University Research Chair in Management (Tier 1)
Department of Management
gjohns@jmsb.concordia.ca
Dr. Johns’ research deals mainly with absenteeism from work, presenteeism, personality, job design and work context, and research methodology. He is one of the most active researchers in the John Molson School of Business and is considered to be a top specialist in his field worldwide.

Dr. Gregory E. Kersten
Concordia University Research Chair in Decision and Negotiation Systems (Tier 1)
Department of Decision Sciences and Management Information Systems InterNeg Research Centre
gregory@jmsb.concordia.ca
Dr. Kersten’s research and teaching interests focus on individual and negotiated decisions. He studies the use and the impact of information and communication technologies on the negotiators’ strategies and on the negotiation processes and their results. His research involves comparative studies, including the impact of culture on negotiations, negotiators’ support, and negotiation automation. Dr. Kersten’s research also involves the design of e-negotiation systems and software agents, and the design and use of e-marketplaces.

Dr. Khashayar Khorasani
Concordia University Research Chair on Control of Autonomous Network of Unmanned Systems-CANUMS (Tier 1)
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Control and Robotics Group
kash@ece.concordia.ca
Dr. Khorasani’ specialties include: nonlinear and adaptive control; cooperative control of multi-agent systems; formation control; intelligent systems and control; neural networks; modelling and control of flexible manipulators; fault diagnosis, isolation, and recovery; prognosis and health management; autonomous systems; network of unmanned systems (i.e. unmanned aerial vehicles, unmanned ground vehicles, and unattended ground sensors); and multi-platform space systems.

Dr. Dmitri Korotkin
Concordia University Research Chair in Mathematics and Statistics (Tier 2)
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
korotkin@mathstat.concordia.ca
Currently, Dr. Korotkin’s research involves studying classical and quantum gravity, alebro-geometric methods in integrable systems and the ‘Riemann-Hilbert problem,’ and the spectral properties of Riemann surfaces.

Dr. Lawrence Kryzanowski
Concordia University Research Chair in Finance (Tier 1)
Department of Finance
lawrence.kryzanowski@concordia.ca
Dr. Kryzanowski juggles a number of different research interests at the moment, such as investment and portfolio management, efficiency and regulation of capital markets/participants, pricing of financial instruments, and market microstructure, or the trade-by-trade and quote-by-quote workings of markets.

Dr. Martha Langford
Concordia University Research Chair in Art History (Tier 2)
Department of Art History
Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art
Centre for Ethnographic Research and Exhibition in the Aftermath of Violence
mlangfor@alcor.concordia.ca
Dr. Langford’s current specialties include studies in Canadian art history and cultural theory, photographic historiography, and modes of consciousness associated with photographic experience.

Dr. Martin Lefebvre
Concordia University Research Chair in Film Studies
Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema
lefebvre@alcor.concordia.ca
Dr. Lefebvre’s research focuses primarily on semiotics and he is seeking to define an approach to film and visual representation inspired by the pragmatic semeiotic philosophy of Charles S. Peirce. He currently heads an international research group on the history and epistemology of film studies.

Dr. Erica Lehrer
Canada Research Chair in Post-Conflict Memory, Ethnography and Museology (Tier 2)
Department of History / Department of Sociology and Anthropology
elehrer@alcor.concordia.ca
Dr. Lehrer’s research looks at cultural practices and products that attempt to apprehend, represent, or come to terms with mass violence and its aftermath. She is also engaged in a number of related public projects of cultural interpretation, translation, dialogue, and exchange.

Dr. Erin Manning
Concordia University Research Chair in Relational Art and Philosophy (Tier 2)
Department of Studio Arts / Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema
Sense Lab
emanning@alcor.concordia.ca
Dr. Manning’s research interests include a range of issues, including: the body, the senses, identity/territory, nationalism and the nation-state, home, intersections between philosophy and political theory, Canadian and Quebecois cinema, and Canadian contemporary art practice.

Dr. Patrik Marier
Canada Research Chair in Comparative Public Policy (Tier 2)
Department of Political Science
pmarier@alcor.concordia.ca
Dr. Marier’s current research focuses on challenges to the welfare state and the impact of population aging on public policy.

Dr. Vincent Martin
Canada Research Chair in Microbial Genomics and Engineering (Tier 2)
Department of Biology
vmartin@alcor.concordia.ca
Dr. Martin’s research concerns microbial genomes and how they function so as to engineer their metabolism and produce valuable biochemicals and biofuels. His research will help in the development of sustainable technologies and the production of cleaner, better, and cheaper products.

Dr. Robin N. Michel
Canada Research Chair in Cellular and Molecular Neuromuscular Physiology (Tier 1)
Department of Exercise Science
rmichel@alcor.concordia.ca
Dr. Michel’s research is interdisciplinary, spanning biochemistry, biology, genomics and neurosciences to name a few. He has become acknowledged internationally as a leading expert on calcineurin – a protein phosphatase (enzyme) that can sense and decode calcium levels in cells.

Dr. Catherine Mulligan
Concordia University Research Chair in Geo-environmental Sustainability (Tier 1)
Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering
mulligan@civil.concordia.ca
Dr. Mulligan’s current research is pushing boundaries in the areas of water, sediment and soil remediation, and the environmental applications of biosurfactants. She has authored or co-authored more than fifty refereed journal papers and three books at this point in her career.

Dr. Viviane Namaste
Concordia University Research Chair in HIV/AIDS and Sexual Health (Tier 2)
Simone de Beauvoir Institute
viviane@alcor.concordia.ca
Dr. Namaste’s current research considers questions of bisexuality and HIV/AIDS. Moreover, working with a community of local activists, the research aims to develop and distribute appropriate educational materials that are adapted to people who have sexual relations with both men and women.

Dr. Sivakumar Narayanswamy
Canada Research Chair in Laser Metrology and Laser Micromachining (Tier 2)
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
nrskumar@encs.concordia.ca
Dr. Narayanswamy concentrates primarily on the use of laser interferometry to measure the surface profile, vibration, and sub-surface defects in the sub-micron regime with nanometer resolution and micron and sub-micron fabrication using pulsed laser techniques for photonics and biomedical applications.

Dr. Muthukumaran Packirisamy
Concordia University Research Chair in Optical BioMEMS (Tier 2)
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Concordia Centre for Advanced Vehicle Engineering
pmuthu@alcor.concordia.ca
Dr. Packirisamy’s research in MEMS, optical MEMS, and bio-integrated OMEMS is broadly recognized as being first-rate, evidenced by his extensive record of collaborations with, and technology transfer to, the industrial sector. A recipient of multiple prestigious awards including the I.W. Smith Award from the Canadian Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2003, he has more than 150 publications and a few patents to his credit.

Dr. Szilvia Pápai
Canada Research Chair in Economic Theory (Tier 2)
Department of Economics
spapai@alcor.concordia.ca
Dr. Pápai’s current research focuses on analyzing stability in an abstract model of coalition formation and on various matching and assignment problems. She has also worked on axiomatic resource allocation problems, specifically on the allocation of indivisible goods.

Dr. Marius Paraschivoiu
Concordia University Research Chair in Simulations for Clean Energy Production and Storage (Tier 2)
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
paraschi@encs.concordia.ca
Dr. Paraschivoiu’s expertise includes the development of computer algorithms for computational fluid dynamics. His current interests are in improving the accuracy and calculation speed of computational fluid dynamics applied to the storage of compressed hydrogen gas and to wind energy generation.

Dr. Gilles Peslherbe
Concordia University Research Chair in Chemistry and Biochemistry (Tier 2)
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry/Department of Physics
Centre for Research in Molecular Modeling
ghp@alcor.concordia.ca
The primary focus of Dr. Peslherbe’s research is the development and application of computer tools to perform realistic simulations of fundamental chemical problems and chemical reactions relevant to photochemistry, biology, geology, and materials science.

Dr. Subhash Rakheja
Concordia University Research Chair in Vehicular Ergodynamics (Tier 1)
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Concordia Centre for Advanced Vehicle Engineering
rakheja@alcor.concordia.ca
The foci of Dr. Rakheja’s current research are vehicular ergodynamics, human vibration, commercial vehicle safety dynamics, intelligent vehicles, hazardous material transportation safety, advanced vehicle suspension, human hand-arm response to vibration and control of hand-transmitted vibration, driver-vehicle interactions, driver and passenger comfort, seating dynamics, whole-body biodynamics, and health effects of workplace vibration and interventions.

Dr. Gad Saad
Concordia University Research Chair in Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences and Darwinian Consumption (Tier 2)
Department of Marketing
gadsaad@jmsb.concordia.ca
Dr. Saad’s research and teaching interests include behavioral decision theory, consumer behavior, advertising, and evolutionary psychology.

Dr. Lisa Serbin
Concordia University Research Chair in Psychology (Tier 1)
Department of Psychology
Centre for Research in Human Development
lisa.serbin@concordia.ca
Dr. Serbin’s present research involves a continuation of her longitudinal projects on child development and developmental psychopathology, women’s health, and the social and environmental factors in the transfer of health and developmental risk from parent to child.

Dr. Sha Xin Wei
Canada Research Chair in New Media Arts (Tier 2)
Department of Design and Computation Arts/Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering
Topological Media Lab
sha@encs.concordia.ca
Dr. Sha is creating real-time, responsive media and installation-events as experiments in gesture, movement and performative arts, as well as in poetic architecture. His theoretical work concerns distributed materiality, agency, and the critical studies of media arts and sciences. He worked for more than ten years at Stanford in scientific and social simulations, and the visualization of geometric and topological structures. Dr. Sha has taught at Georgia Tech, and was a visiting scholar at Harvard, and MIT.

Dr. Uri Shalev
Canada Research Chair in the Neurobiology of Drug Abuse (Tier 2)
Department of Psychology
Center for Studies in Behavioral Neurobiology
uri.shalev@concordia.ca
Dr. Shalev’s research is focused on reward obtaining-directed behaviour. More specifically, he is interested in common neural mechanisms that mediate food- and drug-seeking behaviour, and their potential role in addiction and eating disorders. He is also interested in the interaction between the development of mental disorders and drug abuse due to early-life environmental experiences.

Dr. Peter Shizgal
Concordia University Research Chair in Psychology (Tier 1)
Department of Psychology
Center for Studies in Behavioral Neurobiology
peter.shizgal@concordia.ca
Dr. Shizgal and his research team study the neural basis of reward, motivation, and decision-making, both in laboratory animals and in humans. Their work entails psychophysical measurement, electrophysiology, neurochemistry, functional brain imaging, and mathematical modelling. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Psychological Association, and the Association for Psychological Science.

Dr. Alexander I. Shnirelman
Canada Research Chair in Applied Mathematics (Tier 1)
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
shnirel@mathstat.concordia.ca
Dr. Shnirelman’s current research is concentrated on asymptotic properties of eigenfunctions and eigenvalues of elliptic operators and dynamics of ideal incompressible fluid. This may lead to a better understanding and an accurate mathematical modelling of turbulent fluid flows.

Dr. Chun-Yi Su
Concordia University Research Chair in Control of Non-Smooth Dynamic Systems (Tier 1)
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
cysu@alcor.concordia.ca
Dr. Su’s research covers control theory and its applications to various mechanical systems, with emphasis on the control of nonlinear systems preceded by non-smooth nonlinearities, the control of robotic and nonholonomic mechanical systems, and mechatronic systems.

Dr. Ching Y. Suen
Concordia University Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition (Tier 1)
Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering
Centre for Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence
suen@cs.concordia.ca
Dr. Suen’s primary areas of research interest include handwriting recognition by computers for applications in automatic entry/reading of handwritten and machine-printed data, as well as the analysis of the legibility of type and print fonts to discover how they affect human reading and vision. His team is also engaged in research related to face recognition and computational linguistics.

Dr. Srikanta M.N. Swamy
Honorary Concordia University Research Chair in Signal Processing (Tier 1)
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Center for Signal Processing and Communications
swamy@ece.concordia.ca
Dr. Swamy’s current research is focused on signal processing for speech, image, and video, and studying the theory and implementation of fast algorithms for multi-dimensional signal processing.

Dr. Sofiène Tahar
Concordia University Research Chair in Formal Verification of System-on-Chip (Tier 1)
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Hardware Verification Group
tahar@ece.concordia.ca
Dr. Tahar is founder and director of the Hardware Verification Group at Concordia University, which specializes in the development of methodologies, algorithms, and tools for the verification of hardware and embedded systems. Dr. Tahar has made contributions and published papers in the areas of formal hardware verification, microprocessor and system-on-chip verification, very large scale integration (VLSI) design automation, and formal specification and verification of communications architectures and protocols.

Dr. Vladimir Titorenko
Concordia University Research Chair in Genomics, Cell Biology and Aging (Tier 2)
Department of Biology
Centre for Structural and Functional Genomics
vtitor@alcor.concordia.ca
Dr. Titorenko is a cell biologist who uses cell biological, genomic, proteomic, lipidomic, bioinformatic and systems biological approaches for studying the aging process, elucidating the subcellular organization and protein transport in disease processes, and developing pharmaceutical therapies for human diseases and disorders.

Dr. Jean-Philippe Warren
Concordia University Research Chair on the Study of Quebec (Tier 2)
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
jphwarren@aol.com
Dr. Warren‘s current research, which is highly interdisciplinary in nature, is examining the histories of the Canadian social sciences, Quebec popular culture, the Canadian Native peoples, the Roman Catholic Church in Quebec, and Quebec-based social movements.

Dr. Thomas Waugh
Concordia University Research Chair in Documentary Film and in Sexual Representation (Tier 1)
Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema
Concordia Documentary Centre
waugh@alcor.concordia.ca
Dr. Waugh’s current specialties are the history and current situation of documentary culture in Canada and elsewhere, and secondly cultural representations of sexuality and sexual diversity.

Dr. Christopher J. Wilds
Canada Research Chair in Biological Chemistry (Tier 2)
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
cwilds@alcor.concordia.ca
The main research foci for Dr. Wilds are nucleic acid chemistry, as well as organic and medicinal chemistry with the intent of designing new drugs to treat human diseases that meet the specific needs of individual sufferers, and to understand the origins of resistance to existing therapies.

Dr. Paula Wood-Adams
Concordia University Research Chair on the Physics of Advanced Materials (Tier 2)
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Laboratory for the Physics of Advanced Materials (Concordia Centre for Composites)
woodadam@alcor.concordia.ca
Dr. Wood-Adams is an expert in applied polymer science and complex fluids, and is well-known in the field of polymer rheology and polymer structure characterization.

Dr. Barbara Woodside
Concordia University Research Chair in Behavioral Neuroendocrinology (Tier 1)
Department of Psychology
Center for Studies in Behavioral Neurobiology
Barbara.Woodside@concordia.ca
The major goal of Dr. Woodside’s research program is to use a rat model to explore the complex interaction of neural, endocrine and behavioral processes that enable female mammals to successfully meet the challenge of pregnancy and lactation.

Dr. Yong Zeng
Canada Research Chair in Design Science (Tier 2)
Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering
zeng@ciise.concordia.ca
Dr. Zeng is presently developing design tools that assist in the innovative and creative design of products and systems. This effort is based on the formal and experimental understanding of design activities by using a science of design that he has established. This is tied to research areas such as human factors engineering, product life cycle management, geometric modelling, and artificial intelligence.

Concordia International

Building on a strong foundation of international academic cooperation, Concordia International focuses its efforts on developing and maintaining the growing interest in international educational opportunities. Many of our students and faculty members have helped initiate new projects involving study abroad programs, collaborative curriculum development and a variety of cutting edge research. These initiatives are reflective of an increasingly global academic world and are of great assistance in helping Concordia’s reputation grow beyond its borders.

Concordia International, the mission and the contacts of the office are available on the following website: international.concordia.ca

Concordia International

2080 Mackay St., Annex X Phone: 514-848-2424 x. 4986
Fax: 514-848-2888
E-mail: studyaway@concordia.ca

Academic Services

Libraries

Concordia Libraries offers a wealth of information, both in print and in electronic formats. CLUES, the library catalogue, provides access to collections of books, periodicals, electronic resources, audio-visual material and more. Students can also choose from a variety of online databases and e-journals to find references as well as full-text versions of articles, reports and statistical data in a variety of subject areas. Most electronic services are available both at the libraries and from home.

Computers equipped with productivity software are available to students conducting academic research through databases, CLUES and the Internet. In addition, laptop computers can be borrowed for a six-hour loan period or students can bring their own and connect to the wireless network.

Students can obtain research assistance from librarians in finding information for assignments by enquiring in person, by telephone, by e-mail or through online chat. Students may also consult subject librarians for one-on-one help with their research.

General library workshops, designed to help students develop and improve research skills needed to succeed in using the library effectively, are offered each term. A monthly series of workshops for faculty members and graduate students is also organized and presents more in-depth discussions relating to information research and resources.

Graduate students may borrow books for a six-week period, and the books may be renewed upto three times. Students in master, doctoral or eligible diploma programs may borrow from other Canadian university libraries with a CREPUQ card that may be obtained at either Circulation Desk. In addition, the Libraries’ interlibrary loan service provides document delivery and borrowing of materials from other libraries, at the local, national or international level. Graduate students may reserve a study space or carrel at the Vanier Library or Webster Library.

The R. Howard Webster Library is located on the downtown Sir George Williams Campus and the Georges P. Vanier Library is located on Loyola Campus.

Additional information is available at the Libraries website.

Instructional and Informational Technology Services (IITS)

Instructional and Information Technology Services (IITS) provides infrastructural services in the areas of computing, voice and data communications, systems, instructional technology and media development. The department administers hardware, software, information, consulting and professional support to faculty, students, staff and researchers in using instructional technology in their programs/projects/curricula on both campuses.

WISE

Web Integrated Services for Education (WISE) is offered to all students for $8.99/month. Includes external wireless access, web accessible date storage & sharing, turnitin.com, laptop loaners, network printing, Microsoft Office, and more. Visit wise.concordia.ca for details. Subscription is via the MyConcordia portal (simply click on WISE Services).

The Student/Faculty Portal

Developed by IITS, this on-line web tool allows students to register for courses, and view personalized class schedules, billing and account information, student records, current grades, examination schedules and information regarding loans and bursaries. New features are continually being added.

Classroom Technology Support

IITS provides classroom technology support for all aspects of the university’s high-tech classrooms which are equipped with presentation technology equipment in consoles and wireless networking. Students and faculty may reserve these equipped rooms and any additional equipment through the IITS Equipment Depots. Training and assistance are available through the MyConcordia portal.

Wireless Network

The Concordia Wireless Network service is designed to provide access into the Concordia network from classrooms, both libraries (Vanier and Webster), and public areas on both campuses. Common uses for the Wireless Network include academic research, viewing course websites, and casual computing such as checking e-mails. There are over 300 Access Points set up throughout both campuses.

Moodle

IITS provides support to faculty who wish to create websites for their courses and lectures by using Moodle. It is a do-it-yourself website building tool that has proven itself to be a tremendously effective 24/7 on-line professor’s assistant.

Computer Labs

Several computer labs are operated by IITS for faculty and graduate student research on both IBM and Mac platforms. They offer a wide range of traditional computer languages, general purpose application packages and specialized software.

Training Workshops

The objective of IITS’ training program is to enhance the computing skills of students, staff and faculty, by presenting workshops on software supported and most frequently used at the University.

University Archives

The University Archives is the official repository for the documents of Concordia University and of its two founding institutions, Loyola College and Sir George Williams University. The collection of institutional material includes official records of the University, publications, plans, photographs, audio/visual materials, and a small collection of artifacts. The Archives also has private papers of faculty and staff members and other collections relating to the institution or people/activities connected with it.

The Concordia Archives also collects private papers to support the research activities of the academic programs of the University. Some of the areas of specialization are: Montreal Jazz History, the Visual Art Community of Montreal, the Montreal Irish community, and Continuing Education.

The Archives is open between 9:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, but is closed in the summer on Friday afternoons.

Graduation

Degree Nomenclature

In February 1992, Concordia University adopted a policy on degree nomenclature that seeks to provide students with the opportunity to graduate with gender neutral degree titles. This policy stipulates that students are entitled to receive their degrees in either the traditional or new degree nomenclature. The new names for degrees are: Baccalaureate, Magisteriate, and Doctorate. The traditional nomenclature is: Bachelor, Master, and Doctor.

The decision to implement new titles arose from the belief that some of the structures that presently exist at Concordia and other universities reflect a period when women were not accepted as full participants in the academic community. The University felt it was time to offer degree titles that do not refer explicitly or implicitly only to men.

Students may choose to graduate with degree titles that are gender neutral and refer to the diplomas themselves. Graduates who have previously been awarded a Concordia degree will be able to request that their degree be re-issued in the new nomenclature.

Convocation

Degrees are awarded at the Spring Convocation in June and the Fall Convocation in November. Degree, diploma and certificate candidates who expect to complete their program requirements in a particular term, must submit an application to graduate. Forms are available from the Birks Student Service Centre. The forms must be completed by January 15 for June graduation and by July 15 for November graduation. In programs requiring a thesis at the master or doctoral level, there are deadline dates for thesis submission which must be met if a student is to graduate at a particular graduation. (Students should check with the Thesis Office for exact dates).

The Ceremony

At the Convocation ceremony, doctoral candidates are awarded their degrees first, followed by master’s candidates, diploma candidates, and finally bachelor candidates. Wearing black gowns and the appropriate hoods, all bachelor degree candidates are symbolically capped on stage by the President and presented with their degrees. Master’s candidates also wear black gowns for the ceremony. Doctoral candidates wear maroon gowns and are hooded on stage by the Dean of Graduate Studies. They shake hands with the Chancellor of the University and are then seated with the faculty, symbolizing their initiation into the academic profession.

Honorary Degrees

The custom of awarding honorary degrees at Concordia University dates back to 1965, the first year that a graduate degree was presented to a member of the graduating class of what was then Sir George Williams University. Prior to that date both Sir George Williams University and Loyola College (Concordia’s two founding institutions) provided undergraduate level instruction only. In the years since 1965 almost 200 distinguished personalities from the arts, the world of science, business, the humanities and related disciplines have been chosen to receive this highest of academic honours.

Eligibility is determined by the scope of an individual’s accomplishments during his or her career. Those accomplishments must be sufficiently broad to ensure that the awarding of an honorary degree brings credit both to Concordia and to the academic community as a whole. In recent years, Concordia has placed considerable emphasis on selecting honorands because of their specific commitment to this University.

All members of the Concordia community are encouraged to participate actively in the nomination process. The honorary degree is actually awarded by the Board of Governors upon recommendation of the University Senate. Save in exceptional circumstances, current members of the faculty, the administration, the Board of Governors, students and staff and holders of public office cannot be nominated.

The Honorands

November 2009: AA. Bronson, LL.D., Elizabeth Comper, LL.D., Tony Comper, LL.D., Robert Walsh, LL.D.

June 2009: Roger Abbott, LL.D., Jean B´liveau, LL.D., Don Ferguson, LL.D., Mel Hoppenheim, LL.D., Andrée Lajoie, LL.D., N.R. Narayana Murthy, LL.D., Richard J. Renaud, LL.D.

November 2008: René Balcer, LL.D., Hilary M. Weston, LL.D.

June 2008: Frederick H. Lowy, LL.D., Laura Mulvey, LL.D., Robert L. Papineau, LL.D., Robert Ritchie, LL.D.

November 2007: Heather Menzies, LL.D., Charles C. Hill, LL.D.

June 2007: Howard Alper, LL.D., Cardinal Jean-Claude Turcotte, LL.D., André Desmarais, LLD., Don McNaughton, LL.D., Grant Munro, LL.D.

November 2006: Eric Molson, LL.D.

June 2006: Naïm Kattan, L. Jacques Ménard, LL.D., Michèle Thibodeau-DeGuire, LL,D., Alfred Leslie, LL.D.

June 2005: Robert Daudelin, LL.D., Shirin Ebadi, LL.D., John Forzani, LL.D., Leo Goldfarb, LL.D., Norman D. Hébert, LL.D., Ted Moses, LL.D., Bengt Saltin, LL.D., Claude Taylor, LL.D.

December 2005: Allan Gotlieb, LL.D., Brian Mulroney, LL.D., Michael Desbois Spencer, LL.D.

June 2004: André Chagnon, LL.D., Norman Hébert, LL.D., Maryvonne Kendergi, LL.D., Alistair MacLeod, LL.D., Guido Molinari, LL.D., John O’Brien, LL.D., Henri-Paul Rousseau, LL.D., Claude Ryan, LL.D., Lui Che Woo, LL.D.

November 2004: Marc Garneau, LL.D., Michael Gordon Gibbons, LL.D., Daniel Langlois, LL.D., Bruce Mallen, LL.D.

June 2003: Sidney Altman, LL.D., John Tyler Bonner, LL.D., Robert E. Brown, LL.D., Thomas Brzustowski, LL.D., Stephen A Jarislowsky, LL.D., Eric Kandel, LL.D., Richard Monette, LL.D., Giles Ouimet, LL.D., Larry Swanson, LL.D.

November 2003: Jill Ker Conway, LL.D., Natalie Zemon Davis, LL.D., Leonard Ellen, LL.D., Ronald Lawless, LL.D., John C. Major, LL.D., Jean-Paul Morin LL.D.

June 2002: Assia Djebar,LL.D., John W. Dobson, LL.D., Julio García Espinosa, LL.D., Seamus Heaney, LL.D., Julia Levy, LL.D., Ahmed Zewail, LL.D.

November 2002: Gregory Baum, LL.D., Francesco Bellini, LL.D.

June 2001: Louise Arbour, LL.D., Geoffrey Ballard, LL.D., Lionel P. Hurtubise, LL.D., Henry Mintzberg, LL.D., Robert Savoie, LL.D., Shirley Thomson, LL.D.

November 2001: Claire l’Heureux-Dubé, LL.D.

June 2000: Jean Sutherland Boggs, LL.D., Barrie J. Frost, LL.D., Serge Gaudin, LL.D., Ann Saddlemyer, LL.D., James M. Stanford, LL.D.

November 2000: John Roth, LL.D., Giancarlo Elia Valori, LL.D.

June 1999: Annie Proulx. LL.D., James W. Carey, LL.D., Hon. J. Edward Broadbent, O.C., LL.D., Robert Wall, LL.D., Peter Munk, O.C., LL.D., Charles Albert Poissant, LL.D., Charles Sirois, LL.D.

November 1999: Robert Lepage LL.D., Lise Thibault, LL.D.

June 1998: André Bazergui, LL.D., David Jay Bercuson, LL.D., Douglas Cardinal, LL.D., Dominic D’Allessandro, LL.D., John Economides, LL.D., Carol Shields, LL.D., William Yip, LL.D.

November 1998: Henryk Górecki, LL.D., Paul Martin, LL.D.

June 1997: Morrel Bachynski, LL.D., Wendy Cukier, LL.D., Roland Doré,O.C., LL.D., Pierre Jean Jeanniot, O.C., LL.D., Emmet Johns, S.J., LL.D., Elisabeth Mann Borgese, O.C., LL.D., Annette Michelson, LL.D., Jean A. Pouliot, O.C., LL.D., Heidi Rathjen, LL.D., Jeanne Renaud, LL.D., Esmeralda MA Thornhill, LL.D.

November 1997: Ned Goodman, LL.D.

June 1996: Lawrence S. Bloomberg, LL.D., James Borcoman, LL.D., Paul T. Kefalas, LL.D., E. Lee Kolber, LL.D., Claudette MacKay-Lassonde, LL.D., David Matas., LL.D., Wilfred Whyte McCutcheon, LL.D., Donald C. Savage, LL.D., Anne Sylvstre, LL.D.

June 1995: Myer Bloom, LL.D., Gilles Carle, LL.D., Jacques-G. Francoeur, O.C., LL.D., Peter C. Godsoe, LL.D., Linda Hutcheon, LL.D., Michèle St. Jean, LL.D., Eric McLean, LL.D., Michel Normandin, LL.D., Peter A. Vamos, LL.D.

June 1994: Thomas R. Berger, O.C., Q.C., LL.D., Thérèse Gouin Décarie, O.C., O.Q., LL.D., Otto Joachim, LL.D., John McCarthy, LL.D., Jean E. Pigott, LL.D., Margaret Power, R.S.C.J., LL.D., Mildred Helfand Ryerson, LL.D., Huguette Tourangeau, LL.D., Ben Weider, LL.D.

November 1994: Matthew W. Barrett, LL.D., Joe Clark, LL.D.

June 1993: Sacvan Bercovitch, LL.D., Edgar Andrew Collard, O.C., LL.D., William K. Everson, LL.D., Mildred B. Lande, LL.D., Alanis Obomsawin, O.C., LL.D., Jean-Louis Roux, LL.D., Martha Sloan, LL.D., Velma Weeks, LL.D.

November 1993: Mary Eberts, LL.D., Victor C. Goldbloom, O.C., O.Q., LL.D.

June 1992: Charles Bronfman, O.C., LL.D., Jeff W. Edington, LL.D., François-Marc Gagnon, LL.D., Carleen Maley Hutchins, LL.D., Judith Maxwell, LL.D., Eigil Pedersen, LL.D., Maurice Podbrey, LL.D., Guy Saint-Pierre, LL.D., Arthur Solomon, LL.D.

November 1992: Alan B. Gold, LL.D.

June 1991: Jean Coulthard, LL.D., Jean Coutu, LL.D., Donald Knuth, D.Sc., David Rome, LL.D., Rosalie Silberman Abella, LL.D., Michel Tremblay, D.Litt., Lorne Webster, LL.D.

November 1991: Bertha Wilson, LL.D.

June 1990: Doris Anderson, LL.D., Paul Desmarais, LL.D., Jaime Escalante, LL.D., Ursula Franklin, LL.D., Wally Gentleman, LL.D., Mel Hurtig, LL.D., Antonine Maillet, D.Litt., John Polanyi, LL.D.

June 1989: George Drummond Birks, LL.D., Claude Castonguay, LL.D., Paterson Ewen, LL.D., Jean-Paul Gourdeau, LL.D., Gordon Sparling, LL.D., Robert H. Tanner, LL.D., William I. Turner, Jr., LL.D., Susan Mann Trofimenkoff, LL.D., Dorothy A. Wills, LL.D.

November 1989: Margaret Catley-Carlson, LL.D., Gratien Gélinas, D.Litt.

June 1988: Raymond T. Affleck, LL.D., Stafford Beer, LL.D., Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, LL.D., Ronald J. Gillespie, LL.D., Jori Smith, LL.D., Elizabeth Spencer, LL.D., Allan R. Taylor, LL.D., Ashok K. Vijh, LL.D., Wei Yu, LL.D.

November 1988: J.V. Raymond Cyr, LL.D., Paul-émile Léger, LL.D.

June 1987: Léon Bellefleur, LL.D., Robert J. Brodrick, LL.D., Margaret Fulton, LL.D., Eric Kierans, LL.D., Hugh MacLennan, D.Litt., J. Gerard McDonough, s.j., LL.D., Peter M. McEntyre, LL.D., William B. Rice, LL.D.

November 1987: W. Earle McLaughlin, LL.D.

June 1986: Lise Bissonnette, LL.D., Robert Choquette, D.Litt., Simone de Beauvoir, D.Litt. (posthum.), Jacques de Tonnancour, LL.D., Jacques Genest, D.Sc., Grace Hartman, LL.D., Phyllis Lambert, LL.D., William McMurray, LL.D., Sylvia Ostry, LL.D., Hans H. (David) Stern, LL.D., Robert Stollery, LL.D.

June 1985: N. Byron Cavadias, LL.D., Norman Cohn, LL.D., Frank R. Crawley, LL.D., Bernard Lamarre, LL.D., Theodore Lande, LL.D., Stephen Lewis, LL.D., George Geoffrey Meyerhof, LL.D., Max Stern, LL.D., Charlotte Hunter Tansey, LL.D., Jean-Paul Vinay, LL.D.

June 1984: Lloyd I. Barber, LL.D., J. Clair Callaghan, LL.D., Lionel Chevrier, LL.D., Carl B. Crawford, LL.D., Dorothy Davis, LL.D., Peter J. Denning, LL.D., Jean-Paul Lemieux, LL.D. H.J. Barrington Nevitt, LL.D., Madeleine Parent, LL.D., Norma Springford, LL.D., Guy Sylvestre, LL.D., Violet Walters, LL.D., Orson Wheeler, LL.D.

June 1983: Roch Bolduc, LL.D., Muriel H. Duckworth, LL.D., James M. Ham, LL.D., Pierre Laurin, LL.D., Elvie L. Smith, LL.D.

June 1982: Jack Bordan, LL.D., C. Alec Duff, LL.D., Arthur J. Gosselin, LL.D., John R. Hannan, LL.D., Harry J. Hemens, LL.D., Myer Horowitz, LL.D., Robert H. Marchessault, D.Sc., Arthur P. Pascal, LL.D., Sam Tata, LL.D., Douglas Tushingham, LL.D., Douglas T. Wright, LL.D.

June 1981: Jules Deschênes LL.D., Alphonsine Howlett, LL.D., Yvonne Hubert, LL.D., Josef Kates, LL.D., Gordon M. MacNabb, LL.D., Philip H. Surrey, LL.D., Thomas H.B. Symons, LL.D.

June 1980: Thérèse Casgrain, LL.D., W.T.G. Hackett, LL.D., Murray Laufer, LL.D., Walter F. Light, LL.D., Eric O’Connor, s.j., LL.D.

November 1980: Thomas Daly, LL.D., Gérard Dion, LL.D., Roger Gaudry, LL.D., Ethel Stark, LL.D.

June 1979: Robert E. Bell, LL.D., Camille A. Dagenais, LL.D., Donald C. MacPhail, LL.D., Oscar Peterson, LL.D., Maurice Proulx, LL.D., Fernand Séguin, D.Sc., Wilfrid Cantwell Smith, LL.D.

December 1979: Margaret Atwood, LL.D., Mario Duschenes, LL.D.

June 1978: Robert A. Boyd, LL.D., Harry J. Boyle, LL.D., John Hastings Dinsmore, LL.D., James Gilchrist Finie, LL.D., J. Gordin Kaplan, D.Sc., Louis Muhlstock, LL.D., Irène Senécal, LL.D.

December 1978: A. Hollis Marden, LL.D.

June 1977: Charles S. Carter, LL.D., Guy Desbarats, LL.D., Bernard Lonergan, s.j., LL.D., Norman McLaren, LL.D.

November 1977: Frances Perot Foster, LL.D.

June 1976: Gerald Emmet Carter, LL.D., George A. Fierheller, LL.D., Charles Fox, LL.D., Larkin Kerwin, LL.D., Irving Layton, LL.D., Gerald LeDain, LL.D.

November 1976: Robert Ayre, LL.D., Irving Richard Tait, LL.D.,

June 1975: Franz Paul Decker, LL.D., Louis-Paul Dugal, LL.D., Neil Barron Hutcheon, LL.D., Moses Levitt, LL.D., Mary MacCormack, LL.D., Patrick G. Malone, s.j., LL.D., Myer F. Pollock, LL.D., Louis Rasminsky, LL.D., Anthony Walsh, LL.D.

November 1975: David J. Azrieli, LL.D., Donald Olding Hebb, LL.D., Agnes C. Higgins, LL.D., Renée Vautelet, LL.D.

June 1973: C.F. (Bill) Carsley, LL.D., Douglas Burns Clarke, LL.D., James Alexander Corry, LL.D., Frederick Hubbard, LL.D., Paul Lambert, LL.D., Vernon F. McAdam, LL.D.

June 1972: Louis-Phillippe Bonneau, LL.D., Fraser F. Fulton, D.Sc., John Rutherford Heron, LL.D., Robert Ferguson Legget, D.Sc., René Pomerleau, LL.D., Casimir G. Stanczykowski, LL.D.

November 1972: Aylmer A. Ryan, LL.D. Carl Arthur Winkler, D.Sc.

June 1971: Pierre Dansereau, D.Sc., Emil Fackenheim, LL.D., St. Clair Holland, LL.D., Alfred Pellan, LL.D., Harold Rocke Robertson, LL.D.

November 1971: Jean-Jacques Bertrand, LL.D., Alberto Mortara, LL.D.

June 1970: Charles Henri Barbier, LL.D., Eedson Louis Millard Burns, LL.D., Paul Gallagher, LL.D., Saul Hayes, Q.C., LL.D., George Maxwell Hobart, LL.D., Alphonse Riverin, LL.D.

November 1970: Bryce Mackasey, LL.D., Elizabeth Homer Morton, D.Litt., George Woodcock, D.Litt.

June 1969: Maureen Katherine Stewart Forrester, LL.D., Ted Sheffield, LL.D., Robert Henry Lawson Slater, LL.D., Percy Weissman, LL.D.

June 1968: Lionel Boulet, D.Sc., James Robbins Kidd, LL.D., Samuel H. Schecter, LL.D.

November 1968: Herman Smith Johannsen, LL.D., Robert Alan Speirs, LL.D., Jan Tinbergen, LL.D.

May 1967: Harold Roy Crabtree, LL.D., Jean Drapeau, LL.D., Pierre Dupuy, LL.D., Gustave Gingras, LL.D., Karl Gunnar Myrdal, LL.D., Amos Saunders, LL.D.

November 1967: J. Gerald Hagey, LL.D., Kathleen Ruby Jenkins, LL.D., Maurice Frederick Strong, LL.D.

May 1966: John James Deutsch, LL.D., Everett Cherrington Hughes, LL.D.

October 1966: (Special Convocation—Laying of Cornerstone and Dedication of the H.F. Hall Building) Paul Gérin-Lajoie, LL.D., Henry Foss Hall, LL.D., Wilfred N. Hall, LL.D., Omond McKillop Solandt, LL.D.

November 1966: Francis Reginald Scott, D.Litt., Colin Wesley Webster, LL.D.

May 1965: Jean Lesage, LL.D., Alphonse-Marie Parent, LL.D., Howard Irwin Ross, LL.D., Evan H. Turner, LL.D.

November 1965: Zubin Mehta, LL.D., B. Wynne Roberts, LL.D.

Medals and Prizes

At each Convocation ceremony, a number of distinguished graduates are honoured by receiving special awards and prizes.

Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Prizes. The Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Prizes, one for PhD theses in any discipline in engineering and natural sciences, and another for Ph.D theses in any discipline in fine arts, humanities and social sciences, will be presented each year during Spring Convocation. The prize will include a $4,000 award and a Certificate.

The Balvir Singh Medal is awarded annually when merited to a graduating student with a Master of/Magisteriate in Arts (Economics) for outstanding achievement in the program.

The Edward Eastman McCullough MA History Award is a prize of $100, awarded annually, when merited, to a graduating student with a Master of/Magisteriate in Arts (History) in consideration of a research essay judged to be of exceptional merit.

The F.A. Gerard Prize was established in recognition of the late Dr. F.A. Gerard, who initiated and guided the development of the Master’s programs in Engineering and Computer Science. It is awarded annually, when merited, by the Dean of Engineering and Computer Science to the most deserving graduates at the Master’s level. There is one prize for the Master’s with courses (MEng and MApCompSc) and one for the Master’s with thesis (MASc and MCompSc).

The First Graduating Class Award is presented on behalf of the first graduating class of the Faculty of Arts, Science and Commerce of Sir George Williams College, known as the Guinea Pig Club, for the most innovative and new contribution either academic or extra-curricular to University life.

The Gordon Fisher Prize for Journalism is a prize of $500 awarded to the most outstanding graduating student in the Journalism Diploma program.

The Governor General’s Gold Medal is awarded annually at the Fall Convocation ceremony to the most outstanding graduate student.

The Herbert F. Quinn Medal for Political Science, established in honour of Dr. Herbert F. Quinn, founder of the Sir George Williams Political Science Department, is awarded to a graduating student with the highest standing in the Master of/Magisteriate in Arts (Public Policy and Public Administration).

The Joe Kelly Graduate Award is awarded to a PhD graduating student in consideration of a thesis in management or related discipline and judged to be of exceptional merit.

The Julius and Ilka Ekler Book Prize is awarded to a graduate student in recognition of his/her outstanding achievement in the area of Judaic Studies.

The Doctoral Prize in Engineering and Computer Science is awarded annually, when merited, by the Dean of Engineering and Computer Science to the most deserving graduate of the Doctor of/Doctorate in Philosophy programs in the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science.

The Nishith Mukerji Medal was established in memory of Nishith Mukerji and is awarded annually, when warranted, to the MSc Physics thesis student with the highest standing in the program.

The MBA Medal is awarded to the highest ranking student graduating with the degree of Master of/Magisteriate in Business Administration. The prize is donated by Mr. and Mrs. Infilise of Quadra Chemicals Ltd.

The Stanley G. French Medal is awarded to a graduate student with high academic standing for outstanding contributions to student life, in honour of the first Dean of Graduate Studies of Concordia University.

Le Prix d’excellence Armand Verthuy is awarded annually, when merited, to the best graduating student earning a Masters/Magisteriate degree in Littératures francophones et résonances médiatiques, option B, réalisation médiatique, with preference to a student whose thesis project focuses on cyberculture.

The Uma Sharma Memorial Graduate Award was established in memory of Dr. Uma Sharma and is awarded to a MSc graduating student in consideration of a thesis in Management or related discipline judged to be of exceptional merit.

Alumni

Concordia now boasts 156,000 alumni worldwide. At the University, the department charged with maintaining and nurturing lasting and significant relationships with alumni and their alma mater is the Office of Advancement and Alumni Relations.

The Concordia University Alumni Association (CUAA) was created in 1983 to “encourage the fellowship of graduates from Loyola, Sir George Williams, and Concordia University through social, educational, and cultural activities” and to “preserve and promote the interests of Concordia University through alumni involvement in its future and governance.” Concordia students and graduates of the founding institutions of Loyola College and Sir George Williams University are automatically CUAA members.

Benefits and Services – Current Students: The CUAA collaborates with Concordia’s Advancement and Alumni Relations to offer students and alumni various programs and services. Even before graduation, students can take advantage of numerous services, events, and activities, including funding for student projects, the Backpack-to-Briefcase Workshops, Career Panels, the Annual International Students Holiday Dinner and Coffee Breaks during exam periods. Another one of the CUAA’s services, the Online Mentor Program, matches students with Concordia alumni who dispense both professional and practical advice about the job market based on their personal experiences.

Benefits and Services – Alumni: With a complimentary Alumni I.D. Card, alumni gain access to Concordia libraries, audio-visual facilities, career and placement services and music practice rooms and receive priority on the Concordia Day Care waiting list. Alumni are also eligible for discounts at hotels, Budget Rent-A-Car, Via Rail, theatre tickets, Edible Arrangements (Laval), the VA Art Supply Store, the downtown YMCA, Nautilus Plus, and Campus Recreation. Alumni can access preferred rates on magazine subscriptions and car leases.

Alumni receive the quarterly Concordia University Magazine and waived registration fees at Concordia’s Centre for Continuing Education. They can obtain the BMO Concordia MasterCard, reduced rates on TD Insurance Meloche Monnex home, automobile, and travel insurance, Manulife health and dental insurance and critical illness plan, and wealth management by Wellington West Clearsight. Advancement and Alumni Relations also offers photography services at Convocation. Alumni can explore the world through the Concordia University Alumni Travel Program, which offers unique and breathtaking destinations as well as discounts on travel with Voyages Group Ideal.

Events: the Office of Advancement and Alumni Relations organizes numerous events year-round that are sponsored by the CUAA. Students, alumni, faculty, staff, and friends are always invited to Concordia’s largest and most prestigious, on-campus event, Homecoming, which includes special reunions, chapter and networking events, educational seminars, campus tours, Family Fair Day, and the Homecoming Football Game.

The Annual Alumni Recognition Awards Banquet honours outstanding volunteer contributions from the University’s alumni, faculty, staff, students, and friends.

Staying connected: The CUAA alumni groups on Linkedin and Facebook facilitate networking and socializing among alumni after graduation. The Alumni Relations Twitter feed serves up daily news tidbits about your fellow alumni and alma mater. Alumni can also register for their free E-mail Forwarding for Life or re-connect with lost friends and classmates through the Find-a-Friend Program.

Worldwide Chapters: The CUAA is committed to developing and supporting a worldwide network of alumni chapters. There are active alumni groups in Ottawa, Toronto, Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver, Tri State (New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut), Boston-New England, Washington, Beijing, Hong Kong, and Shanghai. There are also Faculty-based chapters for the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science, the Faculty of Fine Arts, the John Molson School of Business, and the Department of Journalism in the Faculty of Arts and Science. Affinity-based chapters include those for Varsity Athletes and the Garnet Key.

For the latest information on alumni chapters, benefits and events, visit alumni.concordia.ca or contact Advancement and Alumni Relations, 1250 Guy Street, Room FB-520, 514-848-2424, ext. 4856 or fax 514-848-2826, or email alumni@concordia.ca.

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