Accolades for the week of April 8
Max Bergholz recently won the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, awarded by the eponymous centre that sponsors scholarly research on problems of violence, aggression and dominance.
Read the profile of the James M. Stanford Professor in Genocide and Human Rights Studies and assistant professor in the Department of History in NOW.
The scientific committee of the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris has elected Jean-Michel Roessli as a directeur d'études invité for three years in the broad interdisciplinary project on Historiography of Ecclesiology (IVth-XXIst c.) directed by the French medievalist Dominique Iogna-Prat. Roessli will give four lectures at the EHESS every year in May from 2014 to 2016, focusing on the ecclesiological debates in Europe during the modernist crisis (Harnack, Loisy, Duchesne, etc.), at least in the first year.
Alumnus and Professor Emeritus Randy Swedburg will be inducted into the Bemidji State University (BSU) Professional Education Hall of Fame on Friday, April 19. The hall of fame honour is bestowed upon BSU alumni who demonstrate excellence in teaching students or managing schools.
The research of the former chair of the Department of Applied Human Sciences focused on lifelong learning, successful aging and lifestyle and e-synchronous learning. Swedburg has received several professional and service honours, including the Concordia University Alumni Award for teaching excellence, and the American Association for Leisure and Recreation Merit Award among others.
Marcus Lobb, City Farm School co-coordinator and an undergraduate student in the Department of Geography, Planning and the Environment, has been awarded the Laure Wardel bursary from Equiterre and the Caisse d'économie solidaire Desjardins. The $10,000 bursary is granted for upholding the social and environmental principles advocated by Equiterre and helps students conduct and broadcast environmental research related to Equiterre's fields of activity. The City Farm School project is an “ambitious urban agriculture program” that includes three educational streams:
• Market Gardener Internship (designed to create urban farmers who are interested in taking their produce to market)
• Medicinal Plants Internship
• Schoolyard Gardener Internship
Read more about the City Farm School and watch the video:
Two alumni have been named among the three finalists for the Scotiabank Photography Award. They are Angela Grauerholz, MFA 82, and Robert Walker, BA 69 (SGWU). The $50,000 prize, to be announced on May 16, includes a major solo exhibition at the 2014 Contact Photography Festival and international distribution of a catalogue. Read the announcement.