Subhash Rakheja, Shiping Ma, Richard DeMont
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Good vibrations for truck drivers
Bumpy rides and backaches are facts of life for most truck and tractor drivers. Now a team of Concordia professors hopes to make their lives run a lot smoother by reducing the estimated one million work-related injuries reported each year in Canada.
With two federal grant applications now pending, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Professor Subhash Rakheja and Exercise Science Professors Richard DeMont and Shiping Ma hope to
continue pioneering research begun at Concordia in 1988 on the physical effects of whole-body vibration.
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Catherine Mulligan in her lab.
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Carbon dioxide converted from the air
One of the Petro-Canada awards handed out this year to innovative Concordia researchers goes to someone who received the same honour two years ago.
Environmental engineer Catherine Mulligan, the winner of the 2004-05 Petro-Canada Young Innovator Awards Program, will use the $10,000 prize to investigate a novel way of reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) in the environment. More
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November 4, 2004
In this issue
- Biography of a successful Irish Montrealer
- Irish immigrants helped each other and flourished, say geographers
- Irish novelist fills the house
- Her wiggy, woolly family
- Kathy Assayag named to new VP position
- Keith Pruden named Dean of Students
- Provost title change
- Mind and matter: Critical theory a hot topic
- Jews fared better under the Crescent than the Cross
- To err is human, to forgive, divine
- CUPFA art slated for new downtown building
- Part-time faculty celebrate in style with dinner and dance
- Students helped the flood victims in Bangladesh
- David Elliott’s paintings have zest for life
- Forces Avenir prize for Engineers Without Borders
- Exams change
- An engineering student speaks out against cheating
- Faculty Promotions
- Right up your alley
- Speaker on timing of IPOs
- Stingers shoot for stars after impressing the U.S. squads
- Stingers roundup