Donal Hickey focuses on biology's big picture
Donal Hickey has spent his career looking at the tiniest components of life. Now he is focused on biology’s big picture.
Hickey, an accomplished researcher in both genetics and genomics, has joined the University’s Biology Department as Canada Research Chair in Genome Evolution, Tier 1. As such, he is Concordia’s man at the forefront of a very new field of biology: comparative genomics – or, as he calls it, “genetics at zoom-out.”
More
Deans chosen for Faculties of Arts and Science, Fine Arts
Two decanal appointments were ratified at the April 28 meeting of the university’s Board of Governors.
David Graham will become Dean of Arts & Science on Aug. 1, and Catherine Wild will become Dean of Fine Arts on Sept. 1. Both are for five-year terms, and both appointees are new to Concordia.
Graham is currently Dean of Arts at Memorial University of Newfoundland. He has been at Memorial since 1979 and served as head of the Department of French and Spanish before he became dean in 2002.
More
Departments
Next issue:
May 19, 2005
In this issue
- Outsourcing is not always a bargain, JMSB prof says
- Towards a depoliticized workplace
- UQAM’s loss is our gain
- Graduate students envision tomorrow
- Interns go to Bavaria to work
- JMSB team wins award for alumni event
- Lajeunesse meets university community
- JMSB Best of the Best goes Hellenic
- In Memoriam / Magnus Flynn
In Memoriam / Taeko Yamamura Teesler - Danielle Morin wins Women’s Y award for education
- Karakuri summer course fuses art with technology
- Chinese academy sparks course
- Great Grads
- For Vasilisa Shramchenko, mathematics is an art form
- Jianmin Gong will become a dean at a Chinese university
- Nancy Mullick will work as an arts advisor on Baffin Island
- Girish Parvate-Patil shares his engine wizardry with others
- Virginia Bostock finds a new beginning in health challenges
- Journalism student heads for South Africa on a fellowship
- Staff member comes to aid of fire victims near Loyola
- Awards go to staff members in Engineering & Computer Science
- Gaz Met conference to be held in Science Complex
- Doerr & Evans back from China
- Solar house on view now at Loyola Campus
- Students’ art reflects Concordia’s physical transformation
- Take some time out for Wellness
- Roundup of bright ideas at undergrad art show
- Conference on exile this week
- Historian makes documentary
- Stingers make an Impact on the soccer pitch
- Stingers' Phil fills the bill
- Volunteer organizes for Tour de l’Ile
- Corrections