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When you receive this 2001-2002 issue of the Rector’s Report, occupancy of the new Science Complex on the Loyola Campus will be less than one year away. This mammoth $85- million project is proceeding on schedule and still within budget. Excavation of the site of the Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Art buildings on Ste. Catherine Street is well underway. Occupancy by 2005 is the target. A 2003 start on construction of the new John Molson School of Business building on Guy and de Maisonneuve is anticipated. Renovation of the Drummond Building on the Loyola Campus and the Hall Building will begin on completion of the Science Complex.

These ambitious expansion projects are a direct result of our success in meeting the educational needs of students in a rapidly evolving work world. Concordia has been the fastest growing university in Quebec in recent years. Last year’s student enrolment was the highest in the University’s history at 28,237 full-time and part-time students. Since 1995 there has been a steady increase in Concordia’s share of ’s student population. We are not only attracting more students but also better students. This is highly gratifying because students’ decision to enroll at Concordia, when they have so many other options, validates our own belief that we offer programs that are relevant and desirable. Registration in our Continuing Education courses has also climbed steeply.

Qualified and committed full-time and part- time faculty are the lifeblood of a university. During the past five years, I am proud to say that 207 new full-time professors were hired. Their calibre is excellent and, if we can retain them, they will strengthen our course offerings and our research productivity for years to come.

The hiring of new research-oriented professors coupled with the arrival of an energetic new University Research Services director, Dr. Benoit Morin, and the expected filling of the new position of Vice-Provost, Research, will help us achieve the objective of increasing our research productivity, one of our priorities for the next few years.

I would be remiss if this message spoke only of the many wonderful things that are happening at Concordia, without mentioning the difficulties that we experienced both last year and at the beginning of this academic year. As we break new ground, literally and figuratively, we cannot seem to be able to avoid some of the same ground that created tensions last year.

Concordia’s rich ethno-cultural, linguistic and religious diversity is a major asset that helps prepare students for the interdependent, multicultural, internationalized world of the 21st century. At the same time it greatly increases the potential for tension, frequently fueled by world events to which some of our students relate intimately. In recent years it is the conflict in the Middle East reflected on our campus that has most strongly aroused passions and has resulted in adverse publicity for Concordia.

We continue to work closely with student leadership to contain tensions, to promote reasoned debate rather than propaganda and vilification and to ensure that students are not subjected to unwanted pressure or intimidation. It remains to be seen to what extent our efforts will succeed in 2002-2003.

This Report demonstrates that new ground is being broken at Concordia, not only by construction crews but also by our students, professors and staff. None of these efforts would be possible were it not for the ongoing support of our Board of Governors, our Alumni and Alumnae and, increasingly, the governments of and Quebec.

Their support permits us to continue to realize our historic missions; making higher education widely accessible through flexible program delivery; openness to part-time education and welcoming mature students; and achieving national and international eminence by continuing excellence in our traditional areas of strength.

Frederick Lowy Rector and Vice-Chancellor

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The vision of Concordia’s possibilities in the 21st century began crystallizing over

the year. The university’s physical transformation started in the summer of 2001

with construction on the state-of-the-art science complex at the Loyola Campus. Rising five storeys above ground with two subterranean levels, the $85-million complex will be among the largest new science buildings in North America.

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Setting the Pace in the biology, chemistry and biochemistry, exercise science, physics and a Academic World major component of psychology. It will also house the Science Faculty of Arts & Science College, major research facilities including the Centre for Structural John Molson School of Business and Functional Genomics and the Centre for Studies in Behavioural

Faculty of Engineering & Neurobiology, as well as several small research centres and support Computer Science facilities. The completion of the complex in September 2003 will Faculty of Fine Arts usher in a new era of teaching, education and research in sciences at School of Graduate Concordia. Studies

Continuing Education, Concordia Libraries, The endeavour to build Concordia’s place at the forefront of modern eConcordia, and Institute education gained momentum in April 2002, with the announcement for Co-Operative Education of $97 million from the Quebec government toward the new Integrated Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Complex on the Sir George Williams Campus in downtown Montreal. The grant involves $57 million from the Ministry of Education for construction, building on existing Ministry funding of $25 million for reducing rented space, and $15 million from the Ministry of Research, Science and Technology for research infrastructure. Premier Bernard Landry said the complex represents a synergy of two pillars of Quebec, excellence in higher technology and the arts.

Construction on the $165- million downtown complex, which will run along Ste. Catherine between Guy and Mackay Streets, was launched at a groundbreaking ceremony at the end of May. The cuttingedge building has been designed with environmental sustainability in mind, and is expected to consume 40 per cent less energy than the standard Canadian building. Mayor Gérald Tremblay said the complex promises to be a source of cultural dynamism that will help distinguish Montreal as an outstanding city for higher education.

The Integrated Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Complex, expected to be completed in September 2005, will be the centerpiece of a redefined downtown campus, dubbed Le Quartier Concordia. Along with the existing Concordia buildings, Le Quartier Concordia will also include an advanced new building at Guy St. and de Maisonneuve Blvd. for the John Molson School of Business, which will reflect its place as one of Canada’s leading business schools.

Ultimately, Concordia’s $350-million construction project will address record enrolment levels at the university and the need for modern facilities, while consolidating activities in 10 buildings downtown and 14 at Loyola, instead of the current 70. The dramatically changing landscape, however, is but the most tangible evidence of Concordia’s renaissance and its promise to become an even better university.

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A metamorphosis is also taking place in the halls of Concordia. Faculty renewal has brought

forth a new generation of professors, great young minds who are already redefining the

university’s research profile. This is evident in the rising success in obtaining highly competitive research funding from granting agencies. Substantial funding was secured for interdisciplinary and inter-institutional projects, pointing to the great value and possibilities of new collaborations.

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Introduction of the educational priorities and goals of Concordia’s academic programs. Across

Faculty of Arts & Science all Faculties, curriculum has kept up-to-date with societal needs and global

John Molson School of challenges, while remaining grounded in the university’s twin mandate for Business excellence and its tradition of assuring access to quality education. Faculty of Engineering & Computer Science Over the past year, Concordia has forged new connections with universities Faculty of Fine Arts around the world. New agreements of academic cooperation signed with School of Graduate Studies universities in China, , Japan, and Australia provide for collaborative Continuing Education, research and exchange visits by professors and students, while enriching the Concordia Libraries, eConcordia, and Institute international dimension of the learning experience at Concordia. Today, the for Co-Operative university has bilateral agreements with 76 institutions in 31 countries. Education

More students are choosing Concordia, confirmation of the university’s growing reputation for academic innovation and relevance, and its emerging world-class professoriate. Enrolments continue to thrive, with new admissions to undergraduate programs in 2001-02 almost 11 per cent higher than the previous year. The number of international students has increased by more than 15 per cent, to over 2,000, and the number of our students studying abroad is also on the rise. The Centre for International Academic Cooperation (CIAC) has played an important role in this development.

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Rebuilding the faculty ranks has provided an opportunity to bring leading

thinkers to Concordia who reflect new priorities in the humanities and the

biological, natural and social sciences. As Dean Martin Singer begins his second five-year term, the Faculty of Arts and Science marks another banner year for research, with more than 50 professors awarded new grants in this year’s round of competitions.

The Faculty hailed the first of its professors awarded a Canada Also in this section

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Setting the Pace in the Chairs to three other professors working in strategic areas, Academic World bringing to nine the number of Arts and Science faculty members John Molson School of Business now holding specially-funded research chairs.

Faculty of Engineering & Computer Science The Faculty of Arts and Science is continuing to revamp its

Faculty of Fine Arts curriculum in an effort to provide its students with the skills and

School of Graduate knowledge that are relevant to the 21st century. One example is Studies the launch of Loyola International College, an interdisciplinary Continuing Education, Concordia Libraries, program that explores issues of culture, international relations, eConcordia, and Institute religion and globalization. The interdisciplinary program aims to for Co-Operative Education cultivate, through a solid liberal education, citizens who are critically engaged in a world of increasing intercultural interaction.

An example with a more vocational bent is the new graduate certificate in translation focusing on “localization.” It provides professional translators with the technological skills they need to compete in their field, while emphasizing the cultural sensitivities and local traditions that come into play when translating materials for a global audience.

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Concordia’s school of business is positioning itself as one of the best in the country.

The John Molson School of Business, under the leadership of newly appointed dean

Jerry Tomberlin, continues to enhance its programs.

The Goodman Institute of Investment Management fills an important Also in this section

Introduction niche, equipping students with tools for success in today’s financial

Setting the Pace in the services industry, superior investment knowledge and experience, and Academic World the highest standards of ethical and professional conduct. A new Faculty of Arts & Science Investment and Trading Centre launched in May provides students and Faculty of Engineering & Computer Science professors with sophisticated facilities for portfolio analysis. Replicating

Faculty of Fine Arts the live environment of a real investment house, the centre offers access

School of Graduate to financial data and research reports using real-time data feeds from Studies local and international exchanges. Continuing Education, Concordia Libraries, eConcordia, and Institute The new International Centre for Aviation Management Education and for Co-Operative Research, launched in the summer of 2001, brings together academics Education and industry experts to examine issues such as airport capacity and design, commercialization and privatization of airports and airlines, globalization of airline markets and strategic alliances. Together with the existing Aviation MBA and Global AMBA, it establishes the John Molson School of Business at the forefront of this emerging field in business education and research.

The School of Business extended its global reach to the City of Lights, partnering with the Institut Français de Gestion to offer an executive MBA program in Paris. Launched in April, the intensive 15-month program gives busy European professionals the opportunity to get an MBA degree from an internationally accredited institution.

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The three-pronged focus on research excellence, keeping curriculum current

and expanding enrolment continues with vigor as Dean Nabil Esmail begins a second five-year term. In recent years, the Faculty carried out a comprehensive

overhaul of all graduate programs and has seen impressive growth at the master’s and doctoral levels, particularly in the areas of computer science, electrical and computer engineering, and software engineering.

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Introduction Building and Civil Engineering undergraduate programs, in

Setting the Pace in the keeping with the trend of moving from physical experimental work Academic World to computer simulations and automated numerical solutions. Faculty of Arts & Science Graduate certificates were introduced in Design of Applications John Molson School of Business Specific Circuits, Computer Engineering, Micro-devices and

Faculty of Fine Arts Fabrication Processes, Telecommunications, Rehabilitation of

School of Graduate Urban Infrastructure, Facilities Management, Environmental Studies Auditing, and Modelling in Environmental Systems. Continuing Education, Concordia Libraries, eConcordia, and Institute Working with the Centre for Teaching and Learning Services, the for Co-Operative Faculty fostered solid pedagogy among professors, through Education monthly seminars on effective discipline-specific teaching, use of information technologies in the classroom, and participation in a peer-to-peer learning community. Faculty rejuvenation placed emphasis on bringing leading women engineers to Concordia as researchers and educators.

The appointment of 12 research chairs over the year brings to 14 the total of specially supported distinguished researchers in engineering at Concordia.

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The Faculty of Fine Arts has a national reputation for cultivating artistic

innovation. Now, in an exciting project that encourages artists to use modern

technology to push art to new limits, Concordia and the Université du Québec à Montréal have jointly founded the Institute for Research and Creation in Media Arts and Technologies. The initiative, called Hexagram to symbolize the joining of two universities, is supported by $7 million from several provincial and federal agencies, and a $21.9 million grant from the Canada Foundation for Innovation.

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Setting the Pace in the middle of his second five-year term. The Faculty has stepped into Academic World the 21st century by setting up cutting-edge multimedia and design Faculty of Arts & Science laboratories, while “traditional” studios and workshops remain John Molson School of Business exciting scenes of creative processes. The new facilities in the

Faculty of Engineering & integrated engineering, computer science and visual arts complex Computer Science will feature galleries and labs that bring together traditional and School of Graduate modern technologies in art. Studies

Continuing Education, Concordia Libraries, The economic and social impact and cultural consequences of eConcordia, and Institute expanding technologies were the focus of an important three-day for Co-Operative Education symposium hosted by the design art department in October. Graphic designers, artists, educators and activists explored socially engaged approaches to working in the design profession, including the concepts of the designer authoring messages born out of personal belief, rather than commercial need, and integrating social and political concerns into daily practice.

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Developing a new generation of academics is the principal raison d’être of the

School of Graduate Studies. With more outstanding researchers making their

academic home at Concordia, the university is making its contribution to satisfying Canada’s need for 30,000 new university professors during the next decade.

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Setting the Pace in the for graduate students now amount to $1 million, with over 250 Academic World master’s and PhD students receiving Concordia fellowships and Faculty of Arts & Science awards for 2002-03. Concordia students are also proving John Molson School of Business themselves to be academic pacesetters, taking home 13 coveted

Faculty of Engineering & NSERC postgraduate awards this spring. Computer Science

Faculty of Fine Arts Claude Bédard, outgoing dean of Graduate Studies and Research, Continuing Education, has paved a path for Concordia’s growing reputation in research Concordia Libraries, eConcordia, and Institute and interdisciplinary investigation. for Co-Operative Education Next: Continuing Education, Concordia Libraries, eConcordia, and Institute for Co-Operative Education

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The Centre for Continuing Education has become Montreal’s premier destination

for not-for-credit courses, for “lifelong learners” who wish to improve their skills

and minds. Courses are aimed at upgrading professional skills in areas such as information technology, business, communications and tourism. Cont Ed also specializes in instruction in English as a second language, which has grown exponentially in recent years. At present, the Centre serves 7,172 students a year.

Also in this section Introduction With the installation of the hub technology and the proliferation of Setting the Pace in the Academic World the laptops in the library, the “wired” research environment is firmly

Faculty of Arts & Science and irreversibly established. Users can now move seamlessly from John Molson School of searching library catalogues, to commercial databases, to e-mail, to Business word-processing and to Web surfing, anywhere within the library Faculty of Engineering & Computer Science and on campus. In anticipation of the completion of the new Science Faculty of Fine Arts Complex on the Loyola Campus, plans are underway to shift the School of Graduate Webster Library’s Science collection in time for September 2003. Studies This will necessitate a shift of the collection in other disciplines from the Vanier Library to Webster. Renovations are also underway in the Vanier Library for the Special Collections Unit, which will result in a single location for the entire “special” collection to be housed under optimal preservations conditions with light, temperature and humidity control.

eConcordia, an online educational venture by the Concordia University Foundation, began offering courses in January. These include academic, technical and professional courses as well as general interest courses. In its inaugural year, eConcordia offered a graduate course in engineering, Introduction to a Telecommunications Network, as well as several interdisciplinary courses: Computer Applications, Discover Statistics, and Problem Solving and Academic Strategies.

By combining outside work experience with academic study in a chosen discipline, co-op students graduate with both the qualifications and academic preparation that employers are seeking. Over the past three years, Concordia has admitted more than 1,000 students to the co-operative programs in all of its Faculties.

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Green Genes Biology Professor Adrian Tsang, director of the Centre for Structural and

Functional Genomics, is leading a team of researchers in a major $7.5-million

environmental biology project. Building on many years of research, scientists will use genomic techniques to find biological alternatives to improve various industrial processes, particularly in Canada’s substantial pulp and paper industry. While paper is enormously versatile, production processes use expensive chemicals that foul our air and waterways, explains Professor Tsang. The research project is funded by Genome Canada and Génome Québec. Adam Radomsky Professor, Psychology.

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Checking Creative Professor Paula Wood-Adams is investigating the unknown physical Accounting, A Majestic and chemical properties of polyethylene, ubiquitous in plastic Grant in the Humanities, Just the Facts shopping bags, toys and common packaging products. She joined the Faster Facts, Memories department of mechanical and industrial engineering in May, and Testimonies, Planning for Success bringing her expertise in plastics and experience in chemical

Infrastructure Watchdog, engineering to Concordia’s interdisciplinary materials science group. Ecological Cents, Interactive Automatism Wood-Adams is the recipient of a five-year NSERC University

Sex-Drive Research, Faculty Award. Her research is in the field of rheology; she is Working for Pleasure, analyzing the properties of polyethylene that contribute to flexibility. Beautiful People

Virtual and Field Training, Training Ground, And the Scholarship on Native Art Winner is... Art History Professor Joan Reid Acland has made an important contribution to the scholarship on contemporary native artists, in First Nations Artists in Canada, a biographical and bibliographical guide covering the years 1960 to 1989. During this period, aboriginal artists began to explore their own history and traditions, and to use this knowledge to make powerful statements about contemporary native life. Acland conducted an exhaustive study of artists and their works, and studied the Indian Act as part of understanding the political, historical and ethnographic context. Concordia is a pioneer in this field of scholarship, and Acland’s book is the first published by the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art. Next: Checking Creative Accounting, A Majestic Grant in the Humanities, Just the Facts

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Checking Creative Accounting Accountancy Professor Michel Magnan, who holds the Lawrence Bloomberg

Chair in Accountancy, studies ethical issues in accounting, particularly “creative

accounting,” a term much used in the wake of Enron and similar scandals. Magnan examines how accountants use ethics to make decisions, as well as “earnings management,” which can involve the manipulation of financial statements. The increasing complexity of business and business transactions makes it easier to engage in financial manipulation, he explains. To counter this, an accounting firm needs a very strong ethical culture and very good internal control mechanisms.

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Green Genes, Études françaises Professor Marie-France Wagner has received a Engineering Flexibility, $1.6-million Major Collaborative Research Initiative grant over five Scholarship on Native Art years to lead a large interdisciplinary project that will study the Faster Facts, Memories and Testimonies, evolution of royal processions in French towns between 1484 and Planning for Success 1615. Though the topic may seem far removed from the 21st century, Infrastructure Watchdog, Ecological Cents, Wagner explains, elements such as the ritual of power and the glory Interactive Automatism of personality among political or religious leaders still figure today. Sex-Drive Research, Working for Pleasure, The research grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Beautiful People Research Council is one of the largest in the humanities ever Virtual and Field Training, awarded to Concordia. Training Ground, And the Winner is... Just the Facts Computer Science Professor Leila Kosseim is working to make Internet searches more effective and efficient. A specialist in artificial intelligence, natural language processing and generation, and question-answering systems, she is creating applications for easier, more precise information extraction. This includes grammatical spell checkers and smarter search engines. With colleague Sabine Bergler, Kosseim formed a research group called Computational Linguistics at Concordia (CLAC), to share resources and ideas among engineers and across university labs.

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Faster Facts Meanwhile, Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor Anjali Agarwal is

working to make data transmission over the Internet smoother. Her work

involves real-time multimedia communication over the Internet, including voice, video and data transmission. The challenges include addressing the issues of delay, variance in delay, and network traffic during data transmission and reception. As a protocol design engineer in industry before joining Concordia, Agarwal worked on broadband wireless technology access.

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Green Genes, Art History Professor Loren Lerner, with the help of a substantial Engineering Flexibility, grant from the Canadian Heritage Department, curated Memories Scholarship on Native Art

and Testimonies, an exhibition at Concordia’s Leonard & Bina Ellen Checking Creative Accounting, A Majestic Art Gallery of works by 11 Canadian artists who have come from Grant in the Humanities, Just the Facts Europe since the Second World War. She explores how coming from

Infrastructure Watchdog, Europe influenced artists Ð including many who taught or are still Ecological Cents, Interactive Automatism teaching at Concordia. For each of the artists, place is dynamic,

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appreciation of customer satisfaction and commitment to that principle, according to Marketing Professor Bryan Barbieri, lead investigator of a survey and report on the importance of marketing plans. The study of 1,000 small Quebec businesses found that just over half do not have a marketing plan, analyze their competition, or measure their results against clear objectives. Barbieri emphasizes that a marketing plan is a “manifestation of a company’s efforts to make things happen.”

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Infrastructure Watchdog Montreal’s decrepit underground water system needs an overhaul, says Bala

Ashtakala, a professor of civil engineering known for bringing attention to civil

decay issues. Some of the city’s pipes are as much as a century old, most of the system is around 40 years old — but even that, Ashtakala says, is too old. The pipes are corroded, “full of holes, like a sieve,” he reports, and lose 40 per cent of good, treated water — a clear waste of money.

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Green Genes, Professor Frank Müller, an economist by training and ecologist in Engineering Flexibility, vision, is working to persuade business and industry that activities Scholarship on Native Art that support sustainable development are sound economics. Checking Creative Accounting, A Majestic President of the Canadian Society for Ecological Economics, Müller Grant in the Humanities, Just the Facts encourages collaboration with disciplines such as biology and

Faster Facts, Memories ecology. “Certain economic concepts are not adequate to handle and Testimonies, Planning for Success long-term problems, like global warming and climate change,” he

Sex-Drive Research, maintains. Working for Pleasure, Beautiful People Interactive Automatism Virtual and Field Training, Training Ground, And the New Media Professor Yves Bilodeau — known in the art world as Bill Winner is... Vorn — is creating Bedlam in his interactive electronic arts studio. With collaborator Simon Penny, Vorn received $80,000 from the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science and Technology to mount a futuristic robotic installation. The installation will involve interactive rooms in Montreal and Irvine, California, linked via Internet. Visitors to the rooms will unwittingly trigger sound, motion and light events amongst robotic parts at both sites.

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Sex-Driven Research Psychology Professor Jim Pfaus has been receiving nationwide attention with the

testing of a drug that may increase women’s sex drives. The drug, PT-141, is a

synthetic version of a chemical that is produced by the pituitary gland and was not originally intended to treat sexual dysfunction. The drug’s manufacturer asked Pfaus to study its effects on females after discovering that it caused sexual arousal in males. Pfaus has been testing the drug on female rats and results are encouraging.

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Green Genes, Marketing Professor Jordan Le Bel studies consumer behaviour and Engineering Flexibility, food marketing, in particular, his research focuses on hedonic Scholarship on Native Art consumption. His latest study examines the marketing of Checking Creative Accounting, A Majestic gastronomic indulgences like chocolate, and the influence of Grant in the Humanities, Just the Facts knowledge and expertise on pleasure. Le Bel is now also a regular

Faster Facts, Memories contributor on the French morning television show Salut Bonjour! and Testimonies, Planning for Success Beautiful People Infrastructure Watchdog, Ecological Cents, Studio Arts Professor Janet Werner’s portraits on view at the Interactive Automatism Art Gallery last winter in the exhibition Since first I cast eyes on Virtual and Field Training, Training Ground, And the you, can be called as impossibly beautiful as their subjects. A Winner is... portrait painter for many years, Werner describes her latest works as “objects of desire,” yet, they force viewers to grapple with assumptions and stereotypes about people who are beautiful or young, fat or old. Created from photographs of models and actors used in magazine ads, her paintings are simultaneously anonymous and iconic.

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Virtual and Field Training Professor Gregory Kersten is bringing his expertise in ebusiness systems and e-

management to a project for the Canada-European Community Program for

Cooperation in Higher Education and Training. The three-year project provides virtual and field training to about 4,000 students from eight institutions, including universities in Austria, , Italy and Sweden. Professor Karsten has also been instrumental in the development of the business school’s graduate certificate in electronic business, which was launched in September 2001.

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Green Genes, A new Real-Time Systems Laboratory allows students to develop Engineering Flexibility, practical skills in embedded systems software design. Initiated by Scholarship on Native Art Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor Purnendu Sinha, the Checking Creative Accounting, A Majestic software design course tasks students with using virtual software to Grant in the Humanities, Just the Facts program the routing of three trains on a designated model track

Faster Facts, Memories layout. Student groups begin with simple challenges and work up to and Testimonies, Planning for Success more complex operations. Embedded systems are everywhere in our

Infrastructure Watchdog, daily lives, from domestic appliances, automobiles, telephones, Ecological Cents, electronic gadgets and banking systems, to nuclear power plants and Interactive Automatism avionics systems. Sex-Drive Research, Working for Pleasure, Beautiful People And the Winner is... Cinema instructor Chris Crilly was the winner of a Genie award for best original music for his work on Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner, a celebrated full-length feature film written, directed and acted solely by Inuit. Based on oral storytelling traditions, it follows a story of family conflict and revenge over two generations. Crilly researched and used various types of Inuit music, including throat singing, drumming and narrative songs. The result is a pastiche of sounds and instruments from around the world, performed mostly by Crilly.

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Concordia students thrive in a diverse, urban environment. Here is a sample of

some of the high-achieving and creative minds at the university, and their

remarkable work over the year.

Also in this section Artists, Scholarship Concordia scholars were awarded 13 post-graduate scholarships from Recipients the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, given to the Arts and Science, John Molson School of Business very best Canadian students. Nine new graduate students received

Engineering and NSERC post-graduate scholarships, worth $34,600 for their first two

Computer Science, Fine years of study. The winners are Alina Andreevskaia, Travis Chalmers, Arts Tomer Curiel, Martino Freda, Igor Khavkine, James Mcgee, Neil Athletic Achievements, Athlete of the Year Neville, Andrei-Dragosh Radulescu, and Meral Shirazipour. Four New Director, Hall of students who have already completed two years of postgraduate work Fame received scholarships of $38,200 over two years: Chris Boyer, Tamara Demke, Yi Lu, and Jun Zhou.

Melissa Lieberman was the recipient of the 2001 Governor-General’s

Gold Medal, which goes to the outstanding graduate student. She earned her doctorate in psychology, in association with Concordia’s

Centre for Research in Human Development. Her thesis focused on adolescent girls and eating disorders. Her findings suggest that peer relations play an important role in the development of body dissatisfaction and disordered eating. Lieberman also earned her master’s degree from Concordia.

Neil Neville has collected only three As during his Concordia career - the rest of his grades have all been A-pluses. The mechanical engineering graduate was awarded the Governor-General’s Silver Medal, given to the undergraduate student with the highest GPA at the university. Neville was also awarded the Chait Medal, given to the outstanding student receiving a Bachelor of Engineering degree. Neville was a student in the Co-op program. Karim Boulos was the winner of the first Bourse Émérite given by the MBA Association of Quebec, worth $10,000. He was also the recipient, at Concordia’s graduate awards ceremony, of the Robert J. Briscoe Award for entrepreneurial leadership, which carries a prize of $2,500. Head coach of a swim team in Beaconsfield for many years, Boulos was selected for his clear potential to distinguish himself as a future leader in the community.

MBA student Patricia Lamother also won an award from the MBA Association of Quebec, a $1,000 Bourse d’Excellence, for academic excellence.

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Seven out of 11 new grants for promising young artists given by the du Maurier

Arts Council went to students in Concordia’s Faculty of Fine Arts. The 11 awards

are worth $105, 000. Yechel Gagnon, Selena Liss, Marisa Portolese, Carlos Sanchez, and Mackenzie Stroh were recipients in the visual arts category, and Michael Yaroshevsky and Oleksa Lozowchuk were winners in the film and video category. The completed works will be made public.

Nadia Myre came to Concordia as a graduate of the Emily Carr Also in this section

Building on Excellence, Institute of Art + Design with a portfolio of edgy street graffiti. A visit Research on the Rise, in 1999 to an exhibit of Iroquois beadwork at Montreal’s McCord Prize Winners Museum led to her latest artistic direction, an investigation of her Arts and Science, John Molson School of Business Algonkin-Québécois heritage and the huge history of beadwork. Engineering and Beading is political, she explains, whether it’s simply the personal Computer Science, Fine Arts contribution to an age-old continuum (such as beading a traditional Athletic Achievements, flower design), or consciously reworking loaded imagery. Part of her Athlete of the Year MFA final project included Indian Act, in which she enlisted over New Director, Hall of Fame 230 beaders to help her “bead over” 56 pages of Canada’s Indian Act.

Omari Newton, a student in theatre studies and communications, received the inaugural Gloria Mitchell-Aleong award presented by the Black Theatre Workshop, recognizing excellent young performers enrolled in an academic program. He broke into acting in 1999 with roles in My Children, My Africa, and Crossroads, and has also performed roles on stage and television. Newton also writes poetry and is a vocalist with two West Island bands.

Estaban Flores was awarded a $10,000US PhD scholarship from the Casualty Actuarial Society and Society of Actuaries. While at Concordia, Flores studied under the supervision of Professor José Garrido. He is returning to Chile with the hope of launching the country’s first actuarial mathematics program.

Mateo Celi-Cadieux, a BComm student, won the Export Development Corporation’s International Studies Scholarship. The scholarship provides Canadian students with an opportunity to develop careers in international business or international relations. Electrical and computer engineering student Amir Ghowil was presented with a $5,000 scholarship from Hydro-Québec, to attend the new Institut en génie de l’énergie électrique. Concordia is among the six Quebec universities collaborating with Hydro-Québec on the institute, to be housed at the École Polytechnique at the Université de Montréal. The institute will provide specialized training in a field facing a high demand for university graduates.

Cheng Cao, an MBA student, won the Robert L. Richardson Award for Excellence in International Trade Studies. The Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters gave the award.

Two engineering students scooped up coveted graduate scholarships granted by the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air- Conditioning Engineers — an impressive feat for Canadians. Kwang- Woo Park and Athanassios Tzempelikos are each recipients of a $14,000 scholarship. Both are part of a research team led by Building Engineering Professor Andreas Athienitis, developing innovative window systems that optimize the use of daylight, which would help reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions caused by buildings.

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Nelofer Pazira, an actress and journalist who emigrated from with her family in the

aftermath of the conflict with the Soviet Union, has had a whirlwind year as a result of the film

Kandahar, which she conceived and starred in. The film is based on her efforts to find a childhood friend in -controlled Afghanistan. Kandahar was acclaimed at the summer international film festivals in Montreal and Toronto. Pazira is a master’s student in sociology.

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Building on Excellence, neuroscience, spent a summer in Nancy, France, at the Centre de Recherches Research on the Rise, Pétrographiques et Géochimiques, one of the leading geology labs in the world. He Prize Winners

was taking part in a study of iron isotopes in ocean crust rock found 500 to 1,000 Artists, Scholarship Recipients meters below the sea floor. Using a mass spectrometer, Dobbek helped prepare the Engineering and lab samples which were then analyzed by isolating the iron elements from raw Computer Science, Fine Arts specimens of ocean-floor rock obtained during deep-sea drilling expeditions.

Athletic Achievements, Athlete of the Year Fellow Science College student Valerie Laville, a student in biology, spent a New Director, Hall of semester studying and working in Kenya’s wildlife reserves. She split her time Fame between the Nairobi National Park, on the outskirts of the Kenyan capital, and a more remote game reserve near the border with Tanzania. Days were divided between classes in ecology and park management, and fieldwork.

This year’s organizers of the International MBA Case Competition, the world’s most prestigious business case competition for students, raised over $160,000 and lined up several high-profile judges, to put together a competition that lived up to its top- notch reputation. Marie-Louise Bloo, Cristina Franco, Catherine Konidas and Claudia Perello honed their project management skills guiding an event which saw participants from across three continents take part in the intense, five-day competition. Teams tackled tough business assignments under extreme time constraints, relying mostly on analytical, presentation and interpersonal skills to vie for the $7,000 first prize.

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Engineers Without Borders opened a chapter at Concordia this spring. The organization

is made up of engineers and students who want to bridge the growing technological gap

between developed and developing countries. Current endeavours include the “Light Up the World” project to install low-energy lighting and generators in India, and water purification and safety projects in Chile to rid the water supply of high levels of arsenic.

Automotive engineering students put their skills and innovation to the test in Also in this section

Building on Excellence, an international competition to adapt a conventional vehicle to run on Research on the Rise, alternate fuel. Concordia students performed well at the competition, coming Prize Winners in 45th overall out of 129 teams. Concordia’s SAE Formula team also was Artists, Scholarship Recipients awarded first prize for having the “best-costed car.” Their vehicle, which Arts and Science, John featured a linear sliding pillar suspension, was the talk of the competition. Molson School of Business Rudy Chang, Peter Silvano and Frederick Guay made up the team. Athletic Achievements, Athlete of the Year

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Art Matters, the arts festival organized in the spring of 2001 by fine arts students, now an annual event, won the Avenir Arts, lettres et culture prize, presented by Forces Avenir at a gala in October. Forces Avenir is a non-profit consortium of business and government that encourages young talent in Quebec. It was Concordia’s first-ever prize in the annual province-wide competition. The student organizers were Michael Golden, Julie Fowler, Ruth Sumiko Tabata and Yael Wand.

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The Concordia men’s rugby team won its third straight Quebec Students Sports

Federation championship, defeating the McGill Redmen in a narrow 11-10

victory at the end of October. The Stingers had capped their regular season with an impressive 6-1 record, and then defeated the Bishop’s Gaiters in the semifinals. The final victory was hard fought: McGill led the Stingers 10-8 for most of the second half, until centre Mathieu Garston kicked a penalty goal to put Concordia on top.

Concordia football players captured six of 28 spots on the Quebec Also in this section

Intercollegiate Football Conference all-star squad. Burke Dales was Building on Excellence, Research on the Rise, named punter; Brad Remus, wide receiver and return specialist; Prize Winners Dave Aiken, halfback; Alex Oliviera, offensive guard; Adam Artists, Scholarship Recipients Hemming, offensive tackle; and Jean-Michel Paquette, running back. Arts and Science, John Molson School of Business The women’s rugby team had four QSSF All-Stars named: flankers Engineering and Computer Science, Fine Lynda Domazar and Joanne Auger, scrum-half Sommer Christie and Arts prop Leigh Garland. On the men’s soccer side, forwards Ammar New Director, Hall of Bedawieh and Fabien Thomas, and midfielder Stefan Takac were all Fame named to the All-Canadian team. Frank Pons made first Quebec

Conference all-star.

Last-minute heroics paid off for the women’s hockey team in the final of the Therese Humes Invitational Hockey Tournament, hosted each year by Concordia. With just two seconds remaining in regulation time, a goal by centre Dominique Rancour off a pass by Marie-Claude Allard lifted the Stingers to a 4-3 victory over the Cornell Big Red. The Stingers have now won nine of the last 10 Humes titles.

Olympic glory touched Concordia over the winter, with no fewer than four former Stinger hockey players suited up for the women’s gold-medal game at the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. Thérèse Brisson and Caroline Ouellette played for Team Canada while Cammi Granato and Karen Bye were members of Team USA. Brisson and Ouellette won gold, while Granato and Bye took home silver as Canada upset the United States in a thrilling final game.

Giulio Zardo, a 21-year-old Concordia student came within a hair of winning an Olympic medal in the bobsledding competition. Zardo was part of Canada I’s two-man bobsled team that finished in fifth place, nine one-hundredths of a second out of third spot. The pilot was veteran Pierre Lueders, gold-medal winner in the 1998 Games. Before the games, Lueders and Zardo won gold at the World Cup in Italy, posting a track record.

Martine Dugrenier, a winning force for the Stinger wrestling team, won a gold medal at the Canadian university championships, in the 70-kilogram category. The athletic therapy student, who took up the sport only three years ago, was the top-ranked wrestler in her class in North America last winter. Dugrenier received Concordia’s Female-Athlete-of-the-Year award.

Rugby player Sommer Christie was also named Female-Athlete-of- the-Year. An athletic therapy student, she was both a Quebec All- Star and an All-Canadian. Christie is a member of Canada’s national women’s rugby team.

Concordia’s Male-Athlete-of-the-Year was Jean-Michel Paquette, a third-year administration student and one of the most electrifying players in university football over the season. He was a Quebec Intercollegiate Football Conference All-Star.

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Les Lawton, longtime coach of the women’s hockey team, was named interim

director of recreation and athletics. Considered the dean of women’s hockey

coaches in North America, with 20 seasons and close to 500 wins behind the bench, he replaces Harry Zarins, who served as director for nine years. During

his term, Zarins worked to raise the Stinger profile. His support was important in the success of the university’s varsity teams, especially women and men’s hockey, football and basketball. Under his leadership, work progressed on plans for new recreation and athletic facilities on both campuses.

Also in this section Building on Excellence, Another outstanding group of athletes and builders was inducted Research on the Rise, Prize Winners into this year’s Concordia Sports Hall of Fame. The honourees well

Artists, Scholarship represent the long tradition of sports achievement at Concordia, Recipients Sir George Williams and Loyola. Inducted were wrestler Gary Arts and Science, John Kallos (BSc 80), a fierce talent and two-time winner of the CIAU Molson School of Business gold medal in wrestling; skier Julie Klotz (BSc 93), a former Engineering and Computer Science, Fine Olympian and winner of two overall Quebec Student Sport Arts Federation women’s titles; and Peter E. Regimbald (L BA 73), who Athletic Achievements, Athlete of the Year has been an assistant football coach at Concordia for more than 30 years. The 1967-68 Loyola College Warriors men’s hockey team, the first Loyola hockey team to reach the national championships, was also honoured for its spirited, skilled and masterful athletes.

Jim Corsi, inducted to the Hall of Fame in 1997, played five years of soccer and three years of hockey while at Concordia, earning All- Canadian honours in both sports. In his final year as goaltender, he had six shutouts and a 1.16 goals-against-average. In 1976 he was the first recipient of the Senator Joseph A. Sullivan Trophy, presented to the outstanding CIAU hockey player. After graduation, Corsi played for the Quebec Nordiques in the WHA, and the Edmonton Oilers and the Minnesota North Stars in the NHL. He is currently goaltending coach for the Buffalo Sabres. The university retired his sweater, No. 1, at a ceremony in January. Next Section: Highlights

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Marking 20 years of human development Members and alumni of Concordia’s Centre for Research in Human

Development celebrated the unit’s 20th anniversary last October. Over the

years, researchers at the centre have tackled complex issues such as social development, peer relations, aggression, and the influence of gender on development and mental health. Their work advocated a multidisciplinary approach to theory, research design and methodology. The centre now includes 27 faculty members, 60 graduate students and post-doctoral fellows, a group of dedicated staff members, and an expanding variety of research programs and projects, involving more than $2 million in annual funding. More than 85

scholars have earned PhDs at the centre.

Also in this section Loyola Medal winner

Pinocchio brought to life, Richard Renaud, a leading Montreal entrepreneur, volunteer, Broadcast history makes philanthropist, alumnus and Board member was awarded the its home here, Premier who launched Quebec prestigious Loyola Medal in honour of his contributions to the city into modernity, and Defining the portrait and to Concordia. The Loyola Medal was established in 1961 and is

Keeping curriculum given by Concordia every two years to someone whose character, contemporary, Honorary doctorates, and New philosophy and contribution have enriched the heritage of Canada scholarships and humanity. Previous winners include Governor-General Georges Vanier (L BA 06), Cardinal Paul-Émile Léger, Jean Drapeau, Bernard Lonergan, S.J., Thérèse Casgrain, Maureen Forrester, Jean Beliveau, Oscar Peterson and Jacques Ménard (L BComm 67).

Rector Lowy continues, Jerry Tomberlin appointed The term of Rector Frederick Lowy will continue until May 2005 so that he can complete several key projects, in particular, Concordia’s mammoth downtown and Loyola building projects. Jerry Tomberlin, interim dean of the John Molson School of Business since August 11, 2001, was appointed dean of the Faculty for a term ending May 31, 2007.

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Pinocchio brought to life The Centre for the Arts in Human Development mounted its fourth major

production with a cast of more than 20 actors, most of whom attempt to deal

with mild-to-moderate developmental disorders. Professor Stephen Snow and Director Lenore Vosberg and a team of dedicated volunteers lead the project. This year’s production recruited volunteers from an alternative secondary school who came twice a week to work on the production.

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Marking 20 years of Sixteen years’ worth of world events are steadily beeping and human development, crackling their way into broadcast history at Concordia’s Centre for Loyola Medal winner, and Rector Lowy continues, Broadcasting Studies. In a small room at the centre, voices from Jerry Tomberlin appointed the past can be heard discussing anything from Scottish self- Keeping curriculum contemporary, Honorary government to Chinese nuclear capabilities, to the conflicts in doctorates, and New scholarships Lebanon and the Falklands Islands, as reel-to-reel tapes are transferred onto CD-ROM. The tapes contain about 9,000 hours of newscasts from the BBC World Service, systematically recorded from short-wave radio by the late Denis Diniacopoulos between 1970 and 1986 while he was a professor in the Communication Studies Department. The recordings were bequeathed to the Concordia for Broadcasting Studies in 1997. The Diniacopoulos BBC World News Project will also offer undergraduate and graduate fellowships.

Premier who launched Quebec into modernity Concordia, with the Université du Québec à Montréal, was a co- organizer of Robert Bourassa, un bâtisseur tranquille, a three-day colloquium on the late premier. Concordia Political Science Professor Guy Lachapelle says the conference confirmed Bourassa as a social democrat who pioneered legislation to shore up the French language, gave Quebec a written charter of rights, introduced universal medicare, and strengthened labour rights and improved access to the judicial system. The list of participants read like a who’s who of recent Quebec politics. Defining the portrait The Defining the Portrait exhibition at Concordia in December brought together 60 paintings, pastels, drawings, photographs and sculptures from the Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery’s extensive collections. Curated by Art History Professor Sandra Paikowsky, the show featured Canadian works from the 19th and 20th centuries, grouped in several categories: self-portraits, artists by artists, the identified subject, the unidentified subject, the imaginary portrait, and the fragmented portrait.

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Keeping curriculum contemporary The Liberal Arts College hosted more than 200 participants from around the

world for the eighth annual conference of the Association for Core Texts and

Courses this spring. The conference focused on keeping curriculum current in the 21st century, for example, by pluralizing or internationalizing interpretations of core curriculum.

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Marking 20 years of Concordia honoured eight distinguished individuals at convocations human development, in 2001 and 2002: the Honorable Claire L’Heureux-Dubé, justice of Loyola Medal winner, and Rector Lowy continues, the Supreme Court of Canada; Assia Djebar, acclaimed novelist, Jerry Tomberlin appointed playwright and filmmaker; John W. Dobson, founder and chairman Pinocchio brought to life, Broadcast history makes of Formula Growth Limited; Julio Garcià Espinosa, a leading its home here, Premier who launched Quebec facilitator of Cuban cinema; Seamus Heaney, Nobel laureate in into modernity, and poetry; Julia Levy, pioneering research scientist and business Defining the portrait leader; and Ahmed Zewail, Nobel laureate in chemistry.

New scholarships Sixteen new undergraduate scholarships were given last year, including the Pierre Sévigny International Scholarships, named for the war hero, former cabinet minister and officer of the Order of Canada who has taught management and business administration at Concordia since 1967. The renewable scholarship waives half the tuition fees of 10 outstanding international students.

Eight new awards were inaugurated in the Faculty of Arts and Science, including the Bob McDevitt Award given to a first-year journalism student, and the Stelcner Family Prizes for economics students, in honour of the late professor Morton Stelcner. They bring to more than 90 the number of undergraduate awards and bursaries available at Concordia.

Nine new awards were presented to graduate students, including the Robert J. Briscoe MBA Award. Another new scholarship, the Maria Ildiko Beardsley Memorial Bursary, is awarded annually to a student-parent pursuing a degree in geography or urban studies. It provides financial assistance to Concordia students who are juggling academic pursuits with parental responsibilities.

SEPTEMBER 11 The Concordia community joined together with heavy hearts in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks in the United States. A commemorative service honoured victims of the attacks, and numerous campus events that fall focused on peace and understanding. Rector Frederick Lowy called on the community to unite in tolerance and healing.

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ith more than 28,200 students, and 2,000 faculty, 3,300 staff, and 120,000 alumni around the world, Concordia is one of Canada’s

largest and most dynamic universities.

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Student enrolment and Sir George Williams University (1873), Concordia is founded on employee profile a tradition of academic and learning excellence, first-rate Awards and research, teaching, creative activity, research, and service to society. university research centres Concordia continues to distinguish itself as an urban institution 2001–02 Budget of cutting-edge research, which both attracts and produces Senior administrators, critical thinkers of the future. Board of governors, Senate Students may choose from undergraduate and graduate programs in four Faculties (Arts and Science, the John Molson School of Business, Engineering and Computer Science, and

Fine Arts), and the School of Graduate Studies. Concordia also Jack Lightstone continues to deliver vital retraining and retooling of skills Provost through post-graduate and diploma programs.

Integrated within the Faculties are six colleges, more than a dozen research centres, and numerous research institutes. Concordia is also the only English-language university in Quebec with a co-operative option, giving students important on-the-job experience before they graduate.

Research grants continue to rise as Concordia intensifies the development of research at the university. Yet, community involvement remains a university hallmark. Many of our faculty members are engaged in a wide range of social, cultural and economic endeavours that help people in Montreal, across Canada and abroad adapt to our rapidly evolving world.

Concordia hosts numerous international conferences, academic symposia and professional seminars annually, bringing distinguished researchers and experts from around the globe to the university. Concordia also offers a wide range of community, cultural and recreational services, including free public lectures and panel discussions on important events and social concerns of the day.

The university has two campuses: the Sir George Williams Campus located downtown, and the Loyola Campus, about 7 km away in the picturesque west-end of Montreal. Concordia is in the midst a five-year, $350- million building project to construct three new central buildings and carry out a major modernization of existing facilities. The longterm project will provide students, faculty and staff with world-class academic facilities.

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Total enrolment 28,237 Full-time undergraduate 12,715 (45.0%) Part-time undergraduate 11,547 (40.9%) Total undergraduate 24,262 (85.9%) Full-time graduate 2,976 (10.5%) Part-time graduate 999 (3.5%) Total graduate 3,975 (14.1%) Total full-time 15,691 (55.6%) Total part-time 12,546 (44.4%)

Enrolment by Faculty Also in this section Arts and Science 12,783 (45.3%) Introduction John Molson School of Business 5,611 (19.9%) Awards and research, Engineering and Computer Science 4,672 (16.5%) university research Fine Arts 2,563 (9.1%) centres Independent 2,608 (9.2%)

2001–02 Budget Enrolment by gender Senior administrators, Total female 14,782 (52.3%) Board of governors, Total male 13,455 (47.7%) Senate Enrolment by first language spoken (as declared on application) English 16,677 (59.0%) French 4,368 (15.5%) Other 7,086 (25.1%) Not reported 106 (0.4%)

Enrolment by International (visa) students Undergraduate 1,622 Graduate 388 Total 2,010 (7.1%)

Enrolment by Mature students (Aged 21 and over, without conventional academic prerequisites) Full-time 766 (45.5%) Part-time 914 (54.5%) Total 1,680 (5.9%)

The Centre for Continuing Education In addition to degree-granting programs, Concordia offers higher education non-credit courses and programs through the Centre for Continuing Education. In 2001-02, 7,172 students took at least one course in Continuing Education, 14 per cent of whom were international students who came to study English as a Second Language or Professional Career Certificate Programs.

Continuing Education course registration Business Administration 3,447 (21.4%) Computer Institute 3,437 (21.3%) Language Institute 5,576 (34.6%) Communications/Arts 3,179 (19.7%) Hospitality/Tourism 481 (2.9%) Total course registration 16,120

Faculty members Permanent: 819 Part-time: 1,093 Continuing Education: 187 Total 2,099

Administrative and support personnel Permanent employees: 1,501 Casual: 3,633 Contract — Research: 994 Contract — Teaching Assistants: 607 Contract — Other: 293 Total employees: 7,028

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Undergraduate awards given out in 2001–2002 Internal (640 recipients) $816,423 External (67 recipients) $125,056 Graduate awards given out in 2001–2002 Internal (271 awards) $942,711 External (124 awards) $1,875,134

Research grants, contracts and infrastructure (2001–2002)* Also in this section Federal government $10,181,150 Introduction Québec government $2,884,024 Student enrolment and Concordia internal $875,215 employee profile Canadian private $1,103,859 Canadian foundations/associations $73,226 2001–02 Budget Other Canadian sources $80,500 Senior administrators, Non Canadian sources $1,091,058 Board of governors, Total $16,289,034 Senate Awarded By Faculty Arts & Science $9,606,784 Engineering & Computer Science $5,245,507 Fine Arts $639,076 P.K. Langshaw John Molson School of Business $628,666 Associate Professor, Design Other $169,000 Art/Design Images & Sound Total $16,289,034 Chair, Design Art

Pablo Misas *Quebec funding formula. Does not include CFI funding. Major in Design Art, Minor in Digital Images/Sound and the Fine Arts BFA ’01 Digital Coordinator Fine Arts Mac Lab Centres & Research Groups: Centre for Broadcasting Studies (CCBS) Centre for Building Studies (CBS) Centre for Composites (CONCOM) Centre for Industrial Control (CIC) Centre for Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence (CENPARMI) Centre for Signal Processing and Communication (CENSIPCOM) Concordia Institute for Aerospace Design and Innovation (CIADI) Centre for Structural and Functional Genomics Centre for Research in Human Development (CRDH) Center for Studies in Behavioral Neurobiology (CSBN) Centre for the Study of Learning and Performance(CSLP) Concordia Computer Aided Vehicle Engineering (CONCAVE) Electromagnetic Compatibility Laboratory (EMC Lab) International Centre for Aviation Management Education and Research (ICAMER) Centre for Small Business and Entrepreneurial Studies Electronic Commerce Institute Goodman Institute of Investment Management

Interuniversity Centres: Centre for Algebra, Number Theory and Computation (CICMA) Inter-University Research Centre in High Performance Computer Architecture & VLSI (GRIAO) (Groupe Inter-universitaire en Architecture des Ordinateurs et VLSI) Concordia – UQAM Interuniversity Chair in Ethnic Studies

Institute for Research and Creation in Media Arts and Technologies (Hexagram)

Other Affiliations: Centre de recherche informatique de Montréal (CRIM) Institut interuniversitaire de recherches sur les populations (IREP) Centre d’expertise et de services en applications multimédia (CESAM) Participation in the Networks of Centres of Excellence: Canadian Institute of Telecommunications Research (CITR) Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Systems (IRIS) Intelligent Sensing for Innovative Structures (ISIS) Mechanical Wood-Pulps Network Microelectronic Devices, Circuits and Systems (MICRONET) Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems (MITACS) Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) TeleLearning Research Network (TL-RN)

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Revenues Also in this section Operating fund Introduction Tuition fees: $39,953,972

Student enrolment and Province of Quebec grants: $152,510,553 Miscellaneous fees and other employee profile $16,365,250 income: Awards and research, Continuing Education: $7,620,919 university research Student services: $7,407,059 centres Ancillary services: $23,682,383 Senior administrators, Rental properties: $3,530,967 Board of governors, Concordia Unversity Foundation $171 Senate Total revenues: $251,071,274

Research fund Research grants: $18,596,714 Donations and other income: $8,621 Total: $18,605,335

Designated fund Province of Quebec: $2,362,300 Miscellaneous fees and other $1,490,045 income: Donations: $9,356,919 Grants: $2,115,095 Concordia University Foundation: $4,158,480 Total: $19,482,839

Capital Asset fund Province of Quebec Grant: $19,749,615 Donations, grants and other $890,366 income: Total revenue: $20,639,981

Expenditures Operating fund Academic: $111,762,965 Library: $10,735,646 Instructional and Information $8,632,399 Technology Services: Administrative services: $21,366,349 Operational services: $15,227,215 Rented facilities: $4,980,719 Research: $6,054,493 Continuing Education: $6,838,657 Student services: $7,406,809 Ancillary services: $22,231,503 Rental properties: $2,598,262 Specified Gift to the Concordia - University Foundation: Interest on bank loans: $706,794 Interest on long-term debt: - Interest on temporary financing: - Bond and brokerage fees: $39,234 Amortization: - Special projects: $7,722,505 Contribution to Concordia $400,000 University Foundation: Total expenditures: $226,703,550

Research fund Research expenses: $14,199,424

Designated fund Special gifts to Concordia $8,529,845 University Foundation: Special projects: $8,910,447 Total expenditures: $17,440,292

Capital asset fund Interest on bank loans: - Interest on long-term debt: $13,034,342 Interest on temporary financing: $1,901,845 Bond and brokerage fees: $465,434 Amortization: $19,152,238 Total expenditures: $34,553,859

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Frederick H. Lowy, Rector and Vice-Chancellor 848-4849/4850

Jack N. Lightstone, Provost and Vice-Rector, Research 4891

Marcel Danis, Vice-Rector, Institutional Relations and 4806 Secretary-General

Michael di Grappa, Vice-Rector, Services 4815

Larry English, Chief Financial Officer 4310

Martin Singer, Dean, Arts and Science 2081

Jerry Tomberlin, Dean, John Molson School of Business 2703

Nabil Esmail, Dean, Engineering and Computer Science 3060

Christopher Jackson, Dean, Fine Arts 4602

Elizabeth Sacca, Dean, Graduate Studies and Research 3803

Donald L. Boisvert, Dean of Students 3500/3520 Rose Wangechi Undergraduate student Major in Economics Also in this section Senior Appointments Introduction The term of Rector Frederick Lowy has been extended Student enrolment and employee profile until May, 2005. Elizabeth Sacca has been appointed Awards and research, Dean of Graduate Studies for a five-year term ending university research centres May 31, 2007. Jerry Tomberlin has been appointed

2001–02 Budget Dean of the John Molson School of Business, for a five- year term.

Officers of the Board Eric H. Molson (Chancellor) Frederick H. Lowy (Rector and Vice-Chancellor) Lillian Vineberg (Chair) Richard J. Renaud (Vice-Chair) John E. Parisella (Vice-Chair)

Representing the Community-at-Large Mr. Alain Benedetti Mr. Charles G. Cavell Me Rita Lc de Santis Mr. Howard Davidson Mr. Brian Edwards Mr. Leo Goldfarb Mr. George M. Hanna Ms. Judith Kavanaugh Mr. Paul T. Kefalas Mr. Peter Kruyt Mr. Ronald E. Lawless Mr. Christine C. Lengvari Mrs. Hazel Mah Sr. Eileen McIlwaine Mr. John Parisella Mr. Alex G. Potter Mrs. Miriam Roland Mr. Jacques St-Laurent Mr. Ivan Velan Mrs. Lillian Vineberg Mr. Jonathan Wener

Representing Alumni Ms. Barbara Barclay Mr. Alexander J. Carpini Ms. Nicole Fauré

Representing Teaching Staff Dr. Steven H. Appelbaum Dr. William P. Byers Dr. June S. Chaikelson Dr. Terrill Fancott Dr. Christine Jourdan Dr. Loren Lerner

Representing Graduate Students Mr. Rocci Luppicini

Representing Undergraduate Students Ms. Cristelle Basamaji Ms. Sabrina Stea Mr. Patrice Blais Mr. Sami Nazzal

Representing the Administrative and Support Staff Ms. Joanne Beaudoin

Officers of the University with speaking privileges at the Board Marcel Danis (Vice-Rector, Institutional Relations, and Secretary-General) Michael Di Grappa (Vice-Rector, Services) Larry English (Chief Financial Officer) Jack Lightstone (Provost and Vice-Rector, Research)

Secretary of the Board Danielle Tessier

Observer Pierre Frégeau

Regular voting members Frederick H. Lowy (Rector and Vice-Chancellor) Jack N. Lightstone (Provost and Vice-Rector, Research) Martin Singer (Dean, Faculty of Arts & Science) Jerry Tomberlin (Dean, John Molson School of Business) Nabil Esmail (Dean, Faculty of Engineering & Computer Science) Christopher Jackson (Dean, Faculty of Fine Arts) Claude Bédard (Dean, Graduate Studies and Research)

Representing the Faculty of Arts and Science William Bukowski Claire G. Cupples Ann English Margaret Gourlay (part-time) Ellen G. Jacobs Harvey Shulman Patricia A. Thornton Reeta C. Tremblay Catherine Vallejo

Representing the John Molson School of Business Arshad Ahmad Clarence S. Bayne Danielle Morin

Representing the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science Asim J. Al-Khalili S.V. Hoa Theodore Stathopoulos

Representing the Faculty of Fine Arts Silvy Panet-Raymond Peter Rist Laurent Roberge (part-time)

Representing Undergraduate Students Lama Accary Cristelle Basmaji Abdel Beedassy Patrice Blais Benoit Desgreniers Sabine Friesinger Mistie Mullarkey André Munro Sami Nazzal Sabrina Stea

Representing Graduate Students Céline Leduc Nisha Sajnani

Regular non-voting members Marcel Danis (Vice-Rector, Institutional Relations and Secretary-General) Michael Di Grappa (Vice Rector, Services) John W. O’Brien (Speaker and Chair)

Permanent observers William M. Curran (Director of Libraries) Andrew McAusland (Executive Director of IITS) Linda Healey (Interim Registrar) Donald L. Boisvert (Dean of Students) Robert J. Oppenheimer (Director of the Centre for Mature Students) Larry English (Chief Financial Officer)

Secretary of the Board of Governors and Senate Danielle Tessier

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