At a Glance

 

Stephen Snow, associate professor of Creative Arts Therapies (CATS), gave a presentation on drama therapy at the World Congress of Psychiatry in Cairo, Egypt, in September. He was also invited to give lectures and workshops on the creative arts therapies at the Behman Psychiatric Hospital and at the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Cairo. “Mental health professionals in Egypt were really interested,” Snow said. “A couple of the young psychiatrists are thinking of coming to Concordia’s MA program in CATS.”

At the International Conference on Operations and Quantitative Management held at the Indian Institute of Management for two days in August in Indore, India, Suresh K. Goyal directed a plenary session on taking an academic paper from idea to publication in a refereed journal. He has himself published more than 235 research papers.

Early retirement hasn’t slowed down Professor Emeritus Robert Tittler (History). His latest book, A Companion to Tudor Britain, co-edited with Norman L. Jones of Utah State University, won the Sixteenth-Century Studies Association’s Roland Bainton Prize for Reference Works as an outstanding work on early modern Europe. Tittler’s essay “Three Portraits by Jan de Critz for the Merchant Taylors’ Company” appeared in last July’s issue of Burlington Magazine, one of the world’s leading monthly art periodicals, and a new manuscript, Civic Portraiture and Political Culture in Early Modern England, has been accepted for publication by the Manchester University Press.

Master’s of Science (Finance) students, Yanfen Huang and Shen Cao (standing) and Haibo Fan (below), won first prize in this year’s competition for the August Hagedorn Award of the Montreal Society of Chartered Financial Analysts. It examined the effects of differential stock pricing among Chinese companies that list common shares on exchanges in both mainland China and Hong Kong. The students were fêted at a cocktail reception held Sept. 15 at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, and shared a $2,000 prize. They were in Lorne Switzer’s research methodology class.

Congratulations to Anna Sierpinska (Mathematics and Statistics) who was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Lulea (Sweden) for her research in mathematics education, and especially for her theoretical and empirical studies on understanding in mathematics.

Ron Stern (Mathematics and Statistics) has been appointed Ulam Chair for January to May 2006 at the University of Colorado at Boulder while on sabbatical leave from Concordia. The Ulam Chair is named after Stanislaw Ulam (1909-1984), a famous mathematical physicist at Los Alamos who also devised the Monte-Carlo Method used in statistical sampling.

Congratulations to Steven Appelbaum, Concordia University Research Chair in Organizational Development and Professor of Management in the John Molson School of Business. Last month, he won two awards in two days for having written two of the most-downloaded articles on the Emerald electronic management database. That makes his article, “Empowerment: Power, Culture and Leadership – A Strategy or Fad for the Millennium?” co-authored by Sylvie Leroux and Danielle Hébert, one of the top 50 downloads since 1998. Another one of his articles, co-authored by Normand St-Pierre and William Glavas and titled “Strategic Organizational Change: The Role of Leadership, Learning, Motivation and Productivity” is also one of the 200 most-downloaded articles on Emerald since 1999.

Recent PhD graduate in mathematics Vasilisa Shramchenko has been nominated by Concordia for the 2005 NSERC Doctoral Prize. She was featured in CTR as a “great grad” on May 5, 2005. Congratulations to her and to her supervisor, Dmitri Korotkin.