The inaugural Concordia University Community Scholarships and Awards Reception was held Tuesday night at Samuel Bronfman House. The honoured students all received scholarships or bursaries funded by Concordia's internal community through Annual Giving or other fundraising events like the Shuffle. Pictured here are Mara Pancheri, Rong Chen, and Belinda Hoi Yum Lai in the front row, and Elena Rasile, John Molson School of Business Dean Jerry Tomberlin, Lingyu Kong and Nathalie Abbott.
Photo by Christian Fleury
Vasek Chvatal awarded Canada Research Chair
The Canada Research Chair in Combinatorial Optimization has been awarded to Vasek Chvatal, who will join Concordia’s Department of Computer Science on June 1, 2004. He comes from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.
At Rutgers, Chvatal received the Alexander von Humboldt Distinguished Senior Scientist Award and the Beale-Orchard-Hays Prize for Excellence in Computational Mathematical Programming. More
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Michael Di Grappa, Vice-Rector Services, demonstrates how to use a new information kiosk. Ten new information kiosks on both campuses will allow students to speak live to the Information Desk via webcams. More
Arts make inroads in university research
Though working at a computer and singing in a concert hall might seem far apart, university-based artists do research. Fortunately, the major public granting agencies are showing awareness of that fact.
Associate Dean of Fine Arts Liselyn Adams said in an interview that Quebec, not for the first time, has led the way in this regard. More
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In this issue
- Bazaar provides insight to understanding Iran
- Concordia professors hail Nobel Prize win by fellow Iranian
- From crayons to cinema: Professor Lorna Roth says biases affect how we handle colour
- First in graduate fine arts, seventh in teaching, says questionable study
- Students to speak with representatives by webcam
- Head and Hands reaches out to Montreal teens
- Accomplished diploma students awarded scholarships
- Concordia project wins Forces avenir award
- More than $1 million goes to grad students
- Peter Such returns to Montreal as visiting scholar
- Mordecai & me: Journalism instructor finds passion in Montreal's most celebrated author
- Inspiration from the field: Ordre des ingénieurs and Faculty hold conference on values
- NASA engineer says society more risk averse than before
- Former prime minister speaks about Ireland
- Journalism students win Gazette awards
- Student association infrastructure explained
- Soccer's Poirier glad to be at Concordia
- Stinger Roundup
- In memoriam: Adolf E. Blach, 1926-2003