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concordia.ca/artsandscience “The transition to an economy based on renewable biological resources, if done in a sustainable manner, promises to mitigate the substantial environmental and economic risks posed by the petrochemical-based economy. Our research on the discovery, characterization and applications testing of enzymes aims directly at developing solutions for industrial and environmental sustainability.” − Adrian Tsang, professor, Department of Biology; director, Centre for Structural and Functional Genomics UNITED IN CRITICAL THINKING Concordia’s largest faculty nourishes creative and analytical minds, encourages expression, innovation, exploration and discovery — in the arts, sciences, humanities and social sciences
Left brain or right brain? Arts or science? Our rewarding learning environment is ARTS AND SCIENCE Why choose? The Faculty of Arts and flexible, interdisciplinary and research- AT A GLANCE Science provides a thinking environment focused. Thanks to our small class sizes, that allows the next generation of our students collaborate closely with their • 27 academic units students, together with our professors professors. We feature: and alumni, to delve into the sciences, • 8 faculty-based research centres • Devoted professors with a passion humanities, social, life and health sciences. • 6 Canada Research Chairs for teaching We examine issues from multiple angles • 8 Concordia University Research Chairs — analytical and intuitive, from under a • A strong sense of community microscope or through field work. • 6 other research chairs/special research • Interdisciplinary learning professorships We are Concordia’s largest faculty and • A focus on sustainability • 6,380 undergraduate and we collaborate on research with peers 2,35 graduate students locally, nationally and internationally. • Hands-on experience in or out of We are anchored at both the Loyola classrooms and labs • 78 undergraduate programs and Sir George Williams campuses. We offer 230 programs that engage 7,000 • Daytime or evening classes • 56 graduate programs graduate and undergraduate students. Together, our community generates new • 572 full-time faculty ideas that build on current thinking. We • 52 part-time faculty including explore, we bring forth solutions and we graduate students innovate in an ever-changing world. • 98 full-time staff • 94,780 alumni
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With the luck of the Irish, Concordia becomes the country’s first university to offer a Bachelor of Arts in Canadian Irish Studies in 203.
CONCORDIA.CA/ARTSANDSCIENCE | PAGE 3 Concordia’s pioneering Simone de Beauvoir Institute and Liberal Arts College, the first of their kind in Canada, were established in 978.
PAGE 4 | CONCORDIA.CA/ARTSANDSCIENCE SMALL COLLEGES FOR BIG THINKING Smaller colleges within a large, urban university provide an ideal setting for thoughtful exchange in specialized, cross-disciplinary areas: liberal arts, sustainability, women’s studies, public policy, Canadian Irish studies and science
Our three colleges, two schools and At the Loyola College for Diversity and Students get a hands-on education at one institute prove that some of the Sustainability students probe some of the Concordia’s Science College. From most important learning can happen in most challenging issues facing humankind their first year, they participate in intimate settings. At these six outstanding in the 2st century. Our interdisciplinary ongoing research in state-of-the-art units, students and teachers exchange college draws on diverse discourse in the laboratories. Together with their peers ideas, form strong communities and host Faculty of Arts and Science to address and their professors, students contemplate seminars and guest lecturers in a small contemporary global issues. On campus problems and generate new ideas for college atmosphere, while accessing the and in the wider community, our students discussion. Our academic program is amenities and intellectual opportunities can contribute to sustainability through cross-disciplinary, which exposes students of our world-class, urban university. internships and research. Our focus to different ways of thinking. includes biodiversity and ecology, personal Concordia’s School of Canadian Irish and community health, science and the The Simone de Beauvoir Institute was one Studies explores the complex history and contemporary world, and culture and of the first, and remains one of the most rich culture of the Irish in Canada and communication. innovative, places in Canada to complete around the world. We look at history, art feminist studies and develop initiatives that and culture, politics, and the Irish diaspora. The School of Community and Public promote equality and social justice for all. The School collaborates with institutions Affairs is a place for local and global Courses explore local or global areas of in Ireland, Canada and the United States public policy discussion. We offer a interest from sexuality to violence and to promote Irish Studies. Concordia offers unique interdisciplinary education in poverty to militarism. Our students hone the only Canadian Irish studies program public policy analysis, advocacy and critical thinking and analytical skills that open in Canada with professors specializing community and economic development. a world of possibilities. exclusively in Irish-related subjects. The school is home to the First Peoples Studies program. A first of its kind The Liberal Arts College offers in Quebec, the program is designed an intensive introduction to the to increase understanding of First humanities and the social sciences — Peoples’ issues among students of all the best thinking and expression in backgrounds and places a unique focus Western history, philosophy, literature, on the Eeyouch (Cree), Kanienkeha’ka religion, science, music and art. Our (Mohawk) and Inuit peoples. undergraduate students develop critical and analytical skills rooted in key texts, images and music from antiquity to the present. Great books, rigorous study and a welcoming intellectual community provide the foundation for a wide variety of academic and professional pursuits.
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Canada’s first Centre for Applied Synthetic Biology is launched in 202. It brings together biologists, engineers and computer and social scientists seeking interdisciplinary solutions to environmental and health problems.
CONCORDIA.CA/ARTSANDSCIENCE | PAGE 5 “My passion for the environment — fuelled during my studies at Concordia — led me to Oxford to pursue conservation studies. I’m really excited about the future ahead of me — and Concordia helped me a lot.” — Michael Noonan, BSc 2, recipient of the Campaign for the New Millennium Scholarship and 202 Rhodes Scholar
PAGE 6 | CONCORDIA.CA/ARTSANDSCIENCE ARTFUL THINKING Renowned departments at Concordia offer our students world- class training for real-world careers and for the advancement of academic knowledge
Concordia’s Department of Journalism The Département d’études françaises is As a centre for innovation in teaching and is celebrated for its development of the sole Canadian program to offer three research, the Department of Education working reporters. Students become academic fundamentals: language, literature takes a multidisciplinary approach to training knowledgeable and versatile journalists and translation. Students investigate students. The department offers four in print, radio, television and online subjects such as the history of translation, streams: educational technology, educational media. We integrate theory and socio-political issues in translation and the studies, child studies and applied linguistics. practice in production workshops literature of the Francophonie. Graduates are highly sought by school where equipment and facilities boards, daycares, health and social service replicate modern newsrooms. Real-life Concordia’s Department of Political agencies, human resource departments and assignments and newsroom standards Science offers Quebec’s only English- the business community. Our students can are universally applied. Students learn language graduate program in Public participate in courses offered at Concordia’s how to analyze social and political Policy and Public Administration. Students Observation Nursery, which helps parents get contexts where journalism is practised learn about connections between politics, involved in the education of preschoolers. — a key skill in the modern world. Our public policy and public administration. new master’s program allows for the Graduates are prepared for employment The Department of Mathematics and study of journalism from a scholarly, in the public or private sectors or for PhD Statistics is recognized for graduates who research perspective. studies. The department also hosts the work in a variety of fields such as actuarial Canada Research Chair in Comparative mathematics. Concordia is recognized by The first program of its kind in Canada Public Policy. the Society of Actuaries as a Centre of when it was launched, the Department of Actuarial Excellence — one of 24 worldwide Communication Studies is internationally Concordia’s Department of History has institutions to hold this designation. Our acclaimed. It features leading practitioners a distinguished record of training young students gain rigorous training for research in video, film, sound and intermedia. historians for careers in teaching and and development, as well as for jobs in Its theorists explore sexuality, race and research. Students have won prestigious industry and business. ethics. Its community of students and Commonwealth, Rhodes, Rockefeller professors analyze, critique and create and Canada Graduate Scholarships. Our The Department of Economics advances the media and popular culture. Its researchers experienced professors have an ability to discipline through research and teaching. We study the influence of portable impart knowledge and excitement about educate both undergraduate and graduate technology on how people relate to their the past. students. As economists, our alumni provide bodies. They analyze the implications of key intelligence in the business and policy The Department of Chemistry and new media on global politics. Members of sectors as they face variable economic activity, Biochemistry covers a complex spectrum its new Media History Research Centre, interest rates and growth. — physical, inorganic, analytical, organic and launched in partnership with the Mel biochemistry — and offers the kinds of Hoppenheim School of Cinema, are interdisciplinary approach that’s integral to working to create an accessible, user- making new connections and discoveries. friendly database that breaks new ground in historical media research.
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A PhD in social and cultural analysis is introduced in 20. The doctoral program, a Canadian first, focuses on globalization, social inclusion and exclusion, perception and representation, and justice and social ethics.
CONCORDIA.CA/ARTSANDSCIENCE | PAGE 7 “People who are overweight are at high risk of preventable illnesses such as cardiovascular disease and diabetes. Right now the number of Canadians who are overweight exceeds the number who are not. It’s critical that we understand the long- term effects of obesity, from the cell to the entire body, so we can develop better strategies for its treatment and prevention.” — Sylvia Santosa, assistant professor, Department of Exercise Science; Canada Research Chair in Clinical Nutrition
PAGE 8 | CONCORDIA.CA/ARTSANDSCIENCE FORWARD-THINKING RESEARCH Faculty of Arts and Science institutes and research centres probe important, real-world issues — genocide, sustainability and addiction, among many more — and explore practical, multifaceted solutions
The Montreal Institute for Genocide and waste into renewable and alternative studies and its research now includes Human Rights Studies (MIGS) studies the chemicals and fuels. Its researchers have disciplines such as molecular neuroscience prevention of genocide and crimes against discovered the first compound that kills and behavioural decision theory. humanity. The institute brings together cancer cells, including those found in brain survivors of mass atrocity crimes and helps tumours and breast cancer. Its affiliated Researchers and graduate students at them overcome isolation. In 200, MIGS Centre for Applied Synthetic Biology is the the Centre for Research in Human published Mobilizing the Will to Intervene: first research hub of its kind in Canada. Its Development (CRDH) explore what Leadership to Prevent Mass Atrocities, a report biologists, engineers, computer and social marks human development from infancy that compared American and Canadian scientists are working to introduce new through old age. The CRDH is unique policies towards atrocities in Rwanda in technologies with applications in medicine, in Quebec in conducting integrated 994 and Kosovo in 999. The report the environment and agriculture. psychological, behavioural and neuro- prompted the United States to act on MIGS’s physiological population research. recommendations, including the creation of a The Centre for the Study of Learning Among its research projects, the CRDH senior position in the White House focused and Performance continues to develop is investigating the health risks and on mass atrocity prevention. ABRACADABRA (abralite.concordia.ca), a resiliency among several generations of free, web-based program that helps children inner-city residents. The Azrieli Institute of Israel Studies is a improve reading skills through fun and multi-disciplinary research centre that brings interactive games. The program was created The Lifestyle and Addiction Research together students, faculty and researchers to battle the alarmingly high percentage of Lab — one of research hubs affiliated dedicated to the study of Israel. The Institute low-ability readers in countries throughout with the Department of Sociology and strives to foster, promote and support the world. A pilot study recently conducted Anthropology — studies how lifestyle graduate education, research, teaching, public in Mombasa, Kenya, showed a significant behaviours can impact alcohol and lectures and exchange programs in Israel improvement in literacy, math, science and substance use as well as gambling. Its studies. It explores diverse fields: archaeology, social studies among users. researchers from various disciplines history, religion, political science, economics, investigate what prompts people to art, literature, anthropology and sociology. The Centre for Oral History and Digital adopt unhealthy addictions. Its affiliated The Institute will host the 205 international Storytelling, housed in the Department Research Chair on Gambling investigates gathering entitled, “Sustainable Israel: A of History, is a point of convergence for responsible gambling and ways to support Changing Society in the 2st Century,” as part collaborative historical research, teaching and the development and implementation of of the Annual Conference of the Association publishing. It works with faculty, students and preventive measures. for Israel Studies. members of local, national and international communities. The first of its kind in Canada, The Pediatric Public Health Psychology The Centre for Structural and it integrates digital media and oral history to Lab investigates cardiovascular disease, Functional Genomics (CSFG) brings to- access, analyze and communicate life stories. a family of diseases that affects the gether researchers from biology, chemistry, heart and blood vessels, in children and biochemistry, computer science, electrical A leader in interdisciplinary research for teenagers. The research team examines engineering, exercise science and journalism over 30 years, the Center for Studies factors that contribute to cardiovascular to form one of Canada’s largest, multidis- in Behavioral Neurobiology (CSBN) disease in childhood and adolescence, ciplinary genomics research centres. This examines how brain functions affect including sleep, stress, obesity, smoking community is united in its goal to produce motivation and learning. The center is and income inequality. breakthroughs that can transform green recognized worldwide for its drug addiction
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The Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling first opens in 2006. The interdisciplinary research unit is dedicated to exploring the remembered past through multimedia documentation.
CONCORDIA.CA/ARTSANDSCIENCE | PAGE 9 “Our goal is to produce research that can inform efforts to curb global warming. As long as we continue to emit greenhouse gases that fill our atmosphere, we can expect increasingly bizarre weather phenomena.” — Damon Matthews, professor, Department of Geography, Planning and Environment
PAGE 10 | CONCORDIA.CA/ARTSANDSCIENCE PRACTICAL RESEARCH Star researchers in the Faculty of Arts and Science include experts on mental health, genomics, sexuality and disease prevention who make important strides in human knowledge
Mental health treatments: An international Disease prevention: Sylvia Santosa, an Social policy and pensions: Patrik Marier study, led by Department of Psychology assistant professor in the Department of examines the social consequences of Professor Adam Radomsky, assessed Exercise Science and a Canada Research aging populations. As a professor in the 777 university students in 3 countries Chair in Clinical Nutrition, investigates Department of Political Science, Tier 2 across six continents. It found people why some overweight people develop Chair in Comparative Public Policy and with obsessive compulsive disorder are cardiovascular diseases and diabetes while director of the Centre for Research and much the same across cultures. The others do not. Her studies on obesity give Expertise in Social Gerontology, Marier findings provide encouraging possibilities a clearer picture of which proteins and helps connect practitioners in health for adapting cognitive and behavioural enzymes increase fat storage and provide and social services with the academic therapies around the world. clues to prevent or fight obesity. community. Canadian public policy is the focus of his upcoming book, while his past Bolstered immune systems: Malcolm Mitigating climate change: There is a publications explore the politics of pension Whiteway, a Department of Biology persistent misconception among scientists reform in industrialized countries. Professor and Canada Research Chair in and the general public that there’s a
Microbial Genomics, uses genomic tools delay between carbon dioxide (CO2) Aging and technology: As a feminist media to study Candida albicans. This naturally emissions and the climate’s response scholar, Kim Sawchuck is deeply engaged occurring fungus can be fatal to people to those emissions. This has led policy in the intersections of mobility, media,
with compromised immune systems due makers to argue that CO2 emission cuts memory and aging. She is a professor to AIDS, chemotherapy, and organ or will not affect climate systems for decades. in the Department of Communication bone marrow transplants. This research Research led by Damon Matthews, an Studies and Research Chair in Mobile may lead to the development of new associate professor in the Department Media Studies. She is co-founder of the drugs to treat the fungal infection while of Geography, Planning and Environment, Mobile Media Lab, in collaboration with
minimizing side effects. found immediate decreases in CO2 York University, which connects academics, emissions would lead to an immediate artists and diverse organizations from Improved sex life: James Pfaus, a decrease in the rate of climate warming. around the world. Recent initiatives include Department of Psychology professor “Seniors and Cells,” a multi-publication and researcher at Concordia’s Center From fungus to industrial solutions: critical inquiry and “Tentacles .0,” an for Studies in Behavioral Neurobiology, Adrian Tsang, a professor in the interactive exhibit at the Museum of explores the barriers to a fulfilling sex Department of Biology and director of Modern Art in New York. life to help pharmaceutical companies the Centre for Structural and Functional develop drugs to treat sexual dysfunctions. Genomics, is investigating how to use His research was the catalyst to Naomi fungal genes for sustainable commerce Wolf’s book Vagina: A New Biography such as the bleaching of wood pulp or (Little, Brown Book Group, 202), which turning leaves, twigs and straw into biofuel. explores how biological and cultural forces His research is devoted to sequencing and impact connections between women’s analyzing the DNA of fungi to develop brains and their sex organs. ecologically friendlier industrial solutions.
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Evan Perigoe earns a BA in history and creative writing as the first-ever graduate of the Loyola International College in 2005. The interdisciplinary college, founded in 2002, is later renamed the Loyola College for Diversity and Sustainability.
CONCORDIA.CA/ARTSANDSCIENCE | PAGE 11 “From the time I was 4, becoming a journalist was my dream. When I came to study journalism at Concordia, I realized for the first time that the dream could actually come true. I had great professors who taught me all the basic tools I use to this day. The most important thing they taught me was to be bold, to dare ask the questions. My university experience prepared me well for my career — it made it all possible.” — Joyce Napier, BA 8, Washington, D.C. correspondent, Radio-Canada
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PAGE 12 | CONCORDIA.CA/ARTSANDSCIENCE BIG-THINKING GRADUATES The Faculty of Arts and Science has produced several generations of influential leaders, groundbreaking artists and history makers. Here’s a sample of our big-thinking alumni:
• Howard Alper, BSc 63, LLD 07, chair, • Dominic D’Alessandro, BSc 67, • Michael Meaney, BSc 75, MA 77, PhD Canada’s Science, Technology and LLD 98, former president and CEO, 8, member of the Order of Canada, Innovation Council; past president, Manulife Financial senior scientist, Canadian Institute for Royal Society of Canada Advanced Research; associate director, • Sir John S. Daniel, MA 96, education Douglas Hospital Research Centre, • René Balcer, BA 78, LLD 08, producer master, China’s DeTao Masters professor, departments of Psychiatry and writer, Law & Order, Law & Order: Academy; senior advisor, Academic and Neurology and Neurosurgery, Criminal Intent Partnerships International McGill University
• Frederic Bohbot, BA 0, executive • Darren Entwistle, BA 86, executive • Carol McQueen, BA 95, Concordia producer, Oscar-winning documentary chairman, Telus Rhodes Scholar; deputy director, short The Lady in Number 6 Democracy Unit, Department of • Adam Leith Gollner, BA 04, writer Foreign Affairs and International Trade; • Lian Balaban, BA 03, actress, and journalist, Quebec Writers’ acted as political affairs officer with Supernatural television series and Federation’s Mavis Gallant Prize for the UN Peacekeeping Mission in the The Grand Seduction movie Non-fiction forThe Book of Immortality Democratic Republic of Congo (Doubleday Canada, 203); former • Bettina Bradbury, PhD 85, associate editor of Vice Magazine • E. Annie Proulx, MA 73, LLD 99, professor in the Department of Pulitzer Prize-winning author, History at York University and Fellow • Mark Kelley, BA 85, CBC TV journalist; The Shipping News of the Royal Society of Canada co-host, the fifth estate • Nino Ricci, MA 87, first Concordia • Régine Chassagne, BA 98, performer, • Linda Kay, MA 0, associate professor, graduate to win the Governor Arcade Fire; co-founder, Kanpe, a Concordia Department of Journalism, General’s Award for Fiction, non-profit organization helping to first woman to write sports forChicago Lives of the Saints rebuild Haiti Tribune, author of The Sweet Sixteen (McGill-Queen’s University Press, • Kevin Tierney, BA 7, GrDip 78, Genie 202) Award-winning film producer and scriptwriter, Bon Cop, Bad Cop • Jonah Keri, BA 97, New York Times bestselling author, veteran baseball • Georges Vanier, BA 906, Governor writer of Up, Up and Away (Random General of Canada from 959 to 967 House, 204)
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Concordia establishes the Centre for Research in Molecular Modeling in 2000 to promote research and graduate education in computational chemistry and biochemistry.
CONCORDIA.CA/ARTSANDSCIENCE | PAGE 13 The Richard J. Renaud Science Complex, an $85-million interdisciplinary teaching and research facility open since 2003, serves the Faculty of Arts and Science on the Loyola Campus.
PAGE 14 | CONCORDIA.CA/ARTSANDSCIENCE CONNECT WITH OUR THINKING Whether you are a Faculty of Arts and Science graduate, friend or donor, we encourage you to come back to Concordia to share your insights and experience with the next generation of leaders
Our students are connected. Are you? Meet the next generation. Remember Bring new ideas to life. District 3 is where Nurturing new talent is the smartest how it felt to be a recent grad, impatient interdisciplinary teams of Concordia investment any organization can make. for the adventure of a new career? Join undergraduates and graduate students design When people pull together, every sector one of our networking events and share and prototype entirely new products — their of our community becomes more your experience: own ideas or creations mandated by alumni, productive and more exciting. Here’s how • Dinner for Eight brings together established industry leaders and experts. you can help: students and successful alumni. Catch the excitement by coming on board to coach and mentor one team or more. Share your time, be a mentor. Do • Concordia Speed Networking is a you recall the challenges you faced as lively event connecting students with Out-think the competition: Invite our a student? If you attended Concordia the business community and invites students to come to your company as as a mature student, you know how experienced alumni to participate. interns. You’ll have access to top-notch much courage it takes to pursue higher talent while providing tangible experience to education in later life. Or perhaps you Share your thinking. GradProSkills offers potential recruits. came here from somewhere else and graduate students and post-doctoral can now assist a newcomer to find his fellows skills to transition into their future Contact us: [email protected] or or her way. As a mentor, share your career. Become a GradProSkills volunteer 54-848-2424, ext. 8946. success with a student. mentor and help students gain a solid footing by sharing your hard-earned Learn more: concordia.ca/alumni. experience and expertise. COMMUNITY-BASED THINKING The Faculty of Arts and Science has a long tradition of community engagement and outreach.
Our students, faculty and alumni build Our passion for science is shared through Our students are also active in Let’s relationships where they share their local events such as ExpoScience and the Talk Science at Concordia, a group of 3 knowledge and expertise in formal and annual Eureka! Festival, which introduces students who promote science literacy informal settings. people of all ages to the fun and discovery and lead hands-on activities for local youth. of learning. In 203, Concordia opened its doors to local school-aged children by hosting field trip days for the Westmount Science Camp.
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In 999, the Concordia Institute for Canadian Jewish Studies becomes the university’s first academic body dedicated to studying the Canadian Jewish experience through research, education and community partnerships.
CONCORDIA.CA/ARTSANDSCIENCE | PAGE 15 “Teaching and research of complex cultures with very long histories — pertinent to current events and thinking — require a deeper understanding, beyond politics. We feel a multidisciplinary approach that encompasses society, history, economics, literature, language and more is particularly important at first-class institutions all over the world. ” — Naomi Azrieli, chair and executive director, Azrieli Foundation; donor to Concordia’s Azrieli Institute of Israel Studies
FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: SHARON AZRIELI, STEPHANIE AZRIELI, DAVID AZRIELI AND NAOMI AZRIELI
PAGE 16 | CONCORDIA.CA/ARTSANDSCIENCE THINKING OF OTHERS: TRANSFORMATIONAL GIFTS Our donors have made an immense difference in the opportunities we’re able to provide students and researchers at the Faculty of Arts and Science. These are some recent champions:
• Following the amalgamation of Concordia’s • Through its $5 million gift in 20, three alumni associations into one body the Azrieli Foundation made possible the in 204, the Loyola Alumni Association creation of the Azrieli Institute of Israel Studies, provided a $60,000 gift to endow a bursary a multidisciplinary research hub dedicated to for a student in the Loyola College of the study of the archaeology, history, religion, Diversity and Sustainability. political science, economics, art, literature, anthropology and sociology of Israel. • With the opening of the Mordecai Richler Reading Room in the J. W. McConnell Library • In 2003, a $7.5 million gift from Richard Building, Concordia’s Department of English J. Renaud, BComm 69, went towards the becomes the first in Canada to honour the construction of a teaching and research facility late novelist, screenwriter and essayist with that transformed Loyola Campus — the a hub that’s accessible to the general public. Richard J. Renaud Science Complex. The author’s personal effects were donated by the Richler Literary Estate in 203 with • Merck’s donations of $.5 million over the support from David and Ruth Steinberg, last decade have included equipment as Beryl Goldman and the Felicia and Arnold well as support for a lecture series in the Aaron Foundation. Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and research at the Centre for Structural and • As part of its Let’s Talk mental health Functional Genomics. initiative in 203, Bell gave $500,000 to the Department of Psychology to subsidize • The Montreal Institute for Genocide and therapy for the community at the Applied Human Rights Studies’ Will to Intervene Psychology Centre and Centre for Clinical Project — which fights genocide by building Research in Health. domestic and foreign political will to prevent future mass atrocities — was launched thanks to a $.3 million gift from James Stanford, BSc 58, LLD 00, and support from the community at large.
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The Faculty of Arts and Science introduces its master’s program in translation studies in 998 — the first graduate program of its kind in Canada.
CONCORDIA.CA/ARTSANDSCIENCE | PAGE 17 Since 975, Concordia’s Department of Journalism has educated an evolving cohort of journalists who inform readers, viewers and listeners around the world.
PAGE 18 | CONCORDIA.CA/ARTSANDSCIENCE IMAGINE THE POWER OF YOUR SUPPORT You can help create the conditions for talented students to succeed. Today’s students will solve tomorrow’s challenges and change the shape of things to come
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The Native Research Project is established in 99 to enable student researchers to help the university understand the unique needs of First Nations scholars.
CONCORDIA.CA/ARTSANDSCIENCE | PAGE 19 PAGE 20 | CONCORDIA.CA/ARTSANDSCIENCE WHY CHOOSE CONCORDIA? We help transform lives — through research discoveries and by training the next generation of leaders and decision makers
Our unique environment for learning Our commitment to society. Concordia Our contributions and discoveries. Every and research. Concordia’s academic is leading the way to a new kind of year Concordia faculty and students are goals are grounded in an ethos of university, one that makes higher recognized for their accomplishments. dynamism and social responsibility. This education accessible. The university Whether they are Rhodes Scholars, remarkable environment was created in shares its ideas through free and open recipients of Governor General’s and Prix 974, after merging two proud Montreal access to scientific findings and seeks du Québec awards or members of the traditions — the classic liberal arts ways to make social and economic Royal Society of Canada, Concordians education offered by Loyola College and justice more prevalent. We offer some are among the celebrated academics in the practical educational opportunities 500 undergraduate and graduate our country. Our contributions and our offered to wide audiences by Sir George programs, diplomas and certificates, while discoveries change lives. Williams University. maintaining formal ties with more than 00 institutions in 33 countries. Our partnership in Quebec. Concordia’s Today, Concordia is an open and engaged value to the Quebec economy is university that encourages its 46,000 Our strong academic leadership. estimated at $.3 billion annually. And students to become active, critical-thinking Concordia is proud of its impressive this doesn’t account for the contributions and concerned citizens. roster of senior faculty, many established of our 88,000 alumni, 95,000 of whom leaders in their respective academic reside in the university’s home province. fields, across the Faculty of Fine Arts, Faculty of Arts and Science, Faculty of Contact us: [email protected] or Engineering and Computer Science, John 54-848-2424, ext. 7835. Molson School of Business and School of Learn more: concordia.ca/giving. Graduate Studies.
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Concordia introduces a joint PhD in religion with Université de Québec à Montréal in 988. The program now involves Université Laval and includes religion, ethics, popular culture and gender.
CONCORDIA.CA/ARTSANDSCIENCE | PAGE 21 STRENGTH IN NUMBERS A portrait of the Faculty of Arts and Science would be incomplete without a look at the wider Concordia community. Here’s a complete snapshot of our students, staff, faculty and alumni:
- REVENUES OPERATING FUND 20 3 STUDENTS $430,738,000 SPONSORED RESEARCH INCOME 20
SENATE-RECOGNIZED $44,8 6,000
20 RESEARCH UNITS: CENTRE FOR BIOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS OF MASS SPECTROMETRY CENTRE FOR CLINICAL RESEARCH IN HEALTH CENTRE FOR MICROSCOPY AND CELLULAR IMAGING 7,230 CENTRE FOR NANOSCIENCE RESEARCH TOTAL EMPLOYEES * CENTRE FOR ORAL HISTORY AND DIGITAL STORYTELLING CENTRE FOR PATTERN RECOGNITION AND MACHINE INTELLIGENCE CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN MOLECULAR MODELING CENTRE FOR STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS 6, 000 ,64 CENTER FOR STUDIES IN BEHAVIORAL NEUROBIOLOGY CENTRE FOR THE ARTS IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FACULTY MEMBERS ** CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF LEARNING AND PERFORMANCE
4 CENTRE FOR ZERO ENERGY BUILDING STUDIES CONCORDIA CENTRE FOR BROADCASTING AND JOURNALISM STUDIES CONCORDIA CENTRE FOR COMPOSITES CONCORDIA CENTRE FOR TECHNOCULTURE, ART AND GAMES CONCORDIA INSTITUTE FOR WATER, ENERGY AND SUSTAINABLE SYSTEMS HEXAGRAM CONCORDIA: CENTRE FOR RESEARCH-CREATION IN MEDIA ARTS AND TECHNOLOGIES KARL POLANYI INSTITUTE OF POLITICAL ECONOMY 97 MONTREAL INSTITUTE FOR GENOCIDE AND HUMAN RIGHTS STUDIES RESEARCH CHAIRS
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7,230 ,64 TFOTAL EMPLOYEES * ACULTY MEMBERS ** 5,287 ,698 UNDERGRADUATE DEGREES GRADUATE DEGREES
CONCORDIA'S GRADUATE STUDENTS 7,4 4 CLASSROOMS 34 REFLECT DIVERSITY: SCHOOL OF EXTENDED LEARNING STUDENTS 2,368 ALUMNI CHAPTERS IN CITIES ACROSS 36,460 UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS NORTH AMERICA, 4.4% EUROPE AND ASIA ARE VISA STUDENTS
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PORTRAIT OF THE CONCORDIA COMMUNITY: SAMPLING OF WHERE OUR GRADUATES LIVE
Germany: 90 UK: 390
Canada: Russia: 0 3,000 France: 350 Lebanon: 80
Switzerland: 00 U.S.A.: 5,500 Spain: 50 Japan: 95 China: 570 Israel: 70 Italy: 55 South Korea: 40 Bahamas: 60 Greece: 80 India: Taiwan: 40 Mexico: 70 90 UAE: 20 Trinidad & Tobago: 20 Saudi Venezuela: 5 Arabia: 85 Egypt: 45 Nigeria: 50 Kenya: 20 Singapore: 90 Brazil: 30 Peru: 0
Australia: 05 Chile: 20 South Africa: 20
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A master’s degree in educational technology, launched in 968, is Canada’s first.
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