Accolades for the week of March 17
Alexandre Leger, a master’s student in the Department of Political Science, tied for first place in the Disarmament, Arms Control and Non-Proliferation 2013-14 debate held in Ottawa at the headquarters of the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development in February. According to the organizers, his was the best debate in the entire history of the competition.
Several current and former Concordia music students held roles in Opéra de Montréal’s critically acclaimed and sold-out production of Porgy and Bess, an acknowledged masterpiece by George Gershwin.
Chantale Nurse (BFA 07) played Clara, one of the leads, and choristers included Yves-Aimé Pierre (BFA 07), Rica François (BFA 08) and Myrtle Thomas (BFA 00), Karim Forde (BFA 03), as well as current students Jay Sherwood, Chris Thomas and Ruben Brutus.
The Concordia Model United Nations delegation (ConMUN) has met with great success in recent conferences. Led by Stefanie Broos, the delegation was recently was awarded a Best Delegate prize at the recent McGill Model UN Conference at the end of January.
Then, at the end of February, three students from the Department of Political Science, Narjiss Bendidane, Jennifer Jauvin-Goes and Nathanaël Dagane, distinguished themselves in the debates. They were awarded three Outstanding Delegate awards at the Pennsylvania United Nations Conference.
Then in early March, ConMUN emerged as one of the top delegation at the Canadian International Model United Nations in Ottawa, and political science student Alex Chaboud earned the Outstanding Delegate award.
ConMUN is a student club that participates at simulations of the United Nations Organization sponsored by Canadian and American universities.
The department congratulates the entire ConMUN team, and Stephanie, Narjiss, Jennifer, Nathanael and Alex in particular, for their award-winning performances.
CBC Radio interviewed PhD student Lachlan MacKinnon on his doctoral research on the re-envisioning of the former steel mill site in Sydney, N.S. Listen to the interview online.
Adam Radomsky, professor in the Department of Psychology, was elected a 2014 Fellow of the Canadian Psychological Association.
Fellows in the CPA are “members who have made a distinguished contribution to the advancement of the discipline of psychology or have given exceptional service to their national or provincial associations.”
Erica Lehrer’s book Jewish Poland Revisited was named as a finalist in the National Jewish Book Awards, in the category of Jewish Thought & Experience. Lehrer is an assistant professor in the departments of history and of sociology and anthropology and the Canadian Research Chair in Post-Conflict Memory, Ethnography, and Museology (Tier 2).
Impressed by Super Bowl halftime light show and wowed by the Sochi 2014 opening ceremony? Alumnus and part-time instructor Department of Design and Computation Arts Vincent Leclerc (BCSc 03) helped make them both happen.
His company, PixMob, outfitted the audience members at both the 2014 Super Bowl and the Olympic Games opening ceremony with interactive, wireless LED technology — thousands of remote controlled, light-emitting items — designed to turn the crowd into a huge video screen.
Norrin Ripsman, professor in the Department of Political Science, has been selected as a 2014 recipient of the Schusterman Summer Institute Fellowship at Brandeis University in Boston, Mass. The institute trains faculty at universities and colleges to design courses on Israel Studies. This unique multi-disciplinary program includes a two-week seminar-in-residence at Brandeis and a 10-day study tour in Israel.
Alumnus Derek Bingham (BSc 92, Canada Research Chair in Industrial Statistics and Graduate Program Chair at the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science of Simon Fraser University) has been awarded the 2013 CRM-SSC prize for his outstanding contribution to design and analysis of industrial experiments. He has developed new theoretical and algorithmic methodology for applications with randomization restrictions, robust parameter design and computer experiments.
The CRM-SSC Prize is awarded at most once a year, jointly by the Centre de recherches mathématiques and the Statistical Society of Canada to recognize outstanding young researchers in Statistics (PhD within the past 15 years).