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Library ach year, the Concordia Department of Studio Arts’ photography program awards the Roloff Beny Research art The researchers at the Centre $3,220,765 for $858,509 designation 5.9% Foundation Fellowship in Photography to a graduate student for his or her outstanding artistic 16-04-2216:31:13 Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black CONMAG-01.p1.p1.pdf By Luke Quin * and academic achievement. Applied Synthetic Biology are paving22.% General 1 2Undergraduate $560,92 improvements E 3.8% capital the way to artifi cially produce support & In 2014, MFA student Bogdan Stoica, BFA 10, won the $10,000 fellowship. 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However, he changed his 20 Chairs ** Concordia’s research partnerships $2,233 & professorships strategy while on location. “I really like documentary and fiction, but doing fiction means you have or project 0.8% $2,29,734.6% to have a plan, and it stops youbenefi from seeingt the what’scompanies around you. involved, I like to have my eyes open.DONATIONS I stopped Program Start with preferred insurance rates. thinking about the project, looked around and interacted with the landscape, and took it from there.” students — and the university. 6.5% designated $95,9 Stoica is now in the midst of completing the film, called Catherine et ce qu’il reste à traduire de cet été qui a yet By Wayne Larsen assoupi la terre. Once done, he plans to continue working in video and cinema and further pursueWITH his studies. A Not As his artist’s statement says: “My artistic approach builds on a deep-rooted desire to understand and explore the intimate and emotional facets of our existence. 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