At a Glance

 

Dennis Murphy (Communication Studies) is on the international scientific committee of the Revue internationale des technologies en pé dagogie universitaire, launched May 21 by CREPUQ. The journal is available online at http://www.profetic.org/revue.

Marika Pruska-Carroll, Csaba Nekolenyi (Political Science) and Dennis Murphy addressed an international gathering of military experts on propaganda and psychological warfare at the Canadian Forces Base, Longue Pointe, in mid-July. Pruska-Carroll and Nikolenyi, of Polish and Hungarian origin respectively, spoke of growing up in regimes where state-sponsored propaganda was a common phenomenon.

Congratulations to JMSB professor Marika Pruska-Carroll ,(Management). She is this year's recipient of the Junior Researcher Award of the Canadian Psychological Association, given to members who finished their PhD less than five years. She presented her work in June at the CPA annual convention in St John's, Nfld.

Ted Stathopoulos (Building, Civil and Environment Engineering) and Associate Dean (School of Graduate Studies) gave a keynote lecture at the Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics during the International Conference on Urban Wind Engineering and Building Aerodynamics, which took place in Brussels May 5 to 7. The conference was organized by European Co-operation on Scientific and Technical Research (COST) Action C14. The title of his lecture was ‘Wind Effects on People.’

Marvin Butovsky (English) and Ode Garfinkle recently translated and edited The Journals of Yaacov Zipper, 1950-1982: The Struggle for Yiddishkeit (McGill-QueenÕs UP), and the book was widely and favourably reviewed. Zipper, a Yiddish author and principal of the Jewish Peretz Schools, was a seminal figure in MontrealÕs Jewish community, and his journals, written in Yiddish, provide a valuable account of its development.

Congratulations to Charles Acland (Communication Studies) for having won the 2004 Robinson Book Prize for Screen Traffic: Movies, Multiplexes, and Global Culture (Duke University Press, 2003). The prize is awarded by the Canadian Communication Association.

A CREPUQ project called TRAP won an Innovation Achievement Award from the Canadian Association of College and University Libraries (CACUL), and an OCLC Canada/Canadian Library Association Award for Resource Sharing. Both were presented at the annual conference of the Canadian Library Association, held in Victoria, B.C., June 15 to 18. TRAP (Projet de traitement partagŽ) is an equitable and cost-effective way to share cataloguing among the 18 university libraries in Quebec, and Laura May was ConcordiaÕs contribution to the successful venture.

Congratulations to three JMSB professors who won best paper awards at the conference of ASAC, the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada. Martin Martens (Management), together with MSc student Jean-Philippe Arcand, won in the strategy division. Isabelle Dostaler (Management), with colleagues, won in the technology and innovation management division; another paper co-written by Dr. Dostaler got honorable mention in the organizational theory division. Finally, Dowan Kwon (Decision Sciences/MIS) was awarded best paper in IS.

Congratulations to Elizabeth Cobbett, who has won first prize and $5,000 in the NAFTA@10 multimedia essay contest administered by the Canadian Bureau for International Education to mark the 10th anniversary of the North American Free Trade Agreement. Her essay title was ÒDeeper North American Integration? Putting the Horse Back Before the Cart.Ó SheÕs a student in the MA in Public Policy and Public Administration, and we featured her in our June 3 issue.

Yogendra Chaubey (Mathematics and Statistics) is editor of Liaison, the newsletter of the Statistical Society of Canada, for a three-year term. He assumed the position in July, and the first issue under his editorship has just appeared (Vol 18.3). Chaubey has been active in the society. He organized the Statistics Canada 2001 conference at Concordia, and was instrumental in reviving the Statistical Society of Montreal.

Recent Exercise Science graduate Kathleen Green and Professor Richard DeMont attended the Canadian Athletic Therapists Association Conference in May in Antigonish, N.S. Kathleen was given a CATA Writing Award for her paper, ‘Thoracic Outlet Syndrome in the Overhead Athlete.’ She also won a CATA scholarship for athletic therapy skills, academic success, potential leadership and commitment to the profession. DeMont won a CATA Writing Award, for a paper titled‘Effects of Active Isolated Stretching and Passive Stretching on Range of Motion and Pre-Activation of the Hamstrings.’

Karin Doerr (CMLL & Simone de Beauvoir Institute) has published ‘Like The Tail of a Rat: A Proverbial Reading of Franz Kafka's The Neighbor and its Subtextual Antisemitism’ in Proverbium: Yearbook of International Proverb Scholarship (University of Vermont).