A new look for Concordia’s shuttle buses was celebrated this week. Seen above are Manager of Distribution and Transportation Pat Pietromonaco, Vice-Rector Services Michael Di Grappa, Provost Jack Lightstone, Senior Graphic Designer Chris Alleyne (whose art is featured on the buses), Marketing Communications Director Sandra Spina and Rector Frederick Lowy.
Photo by Andrew Dobrowolskyj
Linguists speechless: $2.5 million grant
Concordia’s linguistics program continues to soar, most recently with a high-profile participation in a project awarded a five-year $2.5-million grant by Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.
The grant, the maximum handed out by the federal agency, goes to a project directed by Université de Québec à Montréal linguist Anne-Marie Di Sciullo that aims to chart the cognitive basis of language. “Each language might use some building blocks and not others... More
Martin Singer
Martin Singer named Provost
Concordia's Board of Governors has approved the recommendation of an advisory search committee to appoint Martin Singer, currently Dean of Arts and Science, as Provost, for a five-year term beginning June 1, 2004.
The Provost is the senior academic officer of the university. More
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In this issue
- Software with a human touch
- Planner John Zacharias on China, where the bicycle is king
- Student recruits students for Canada’s Public Service
- Concordia University Foundation grows to $71.4 million, Board told
- Grad Francine Allaire made The Blue Butterfly
- Choreographers strut their stuff
- City Lights at Ellen Gallery
- Club Lido, all that jazz
- Student film at Jutras
- Marketing students win jobs with alumnus
- Kit Griffin teaches in Senegal
- Oceanographer in Arctic had to look out for polar bears
- Whistle-blower Joanna Gaultieri challenged extravagance
- Blond boys out of playoffs
- Stingers a buzz in Baie d’Urfe
- Stingers roundup