Accolades for the week of August 27
Alexandre Champagne and his graduate students will have their work published in the September issue of Nano Letters, one of the highest-profile journals in nanoscience. The work leading up to the paper, titled Few-Hundred GHz Carbon Nanotube Nanoelectromechanical Systems (NEMS), was performed entirely at Concordia. The objectives of this research are both to understand the fundamental rules of how electronics and mechanics couple at the nanoscale, and to develop extremely sensitive nanoscale devices. The paper can be found online here.
A new Casebook on Citizen Engagement was just released by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), in which David Secko co-authored a chapter on work to engage people over tissue banking. CIHR hopes this new publication, which showcases diverse examples of citizen engagement processes will be a useful reference for both practitioners and decision-makers. Both the case and the full casebook are available online.
Anne Wade, manager and information specialist in the Centre for the Study of Learning and Performance, recently returned from Helsinki, Finland, where she participated at the International Federation of Library Associations' World Library and Information Congress and 78th IFLA General Conference and Assembly attended by over 4,000 delegates.
The IFLA World Library and Information Congress is the international flagship professional and trade event for the library and information services sector. It brings together participants from more than 120 countries, and it sets the international agenda for the profession as well as offering opportunities for networking and professional development to all delegates.
Wade presented the paper she co-authored with Joanne Locke, associate dean in the Faculty of Arts and Science, and Patrick Devey, chief learning officer at eConcordia, entitled An Online Information Literacy Course for Undergraduates: Early Experiences.
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After thousands of hours over the course of a year, the Tutor With Me site has been launched and has even won an award. The site aims to connect tutors with students and provide them with a platform on which to conduct sessions online. Tutors can build profiles online and students can browse the profiles to find a suitable match.
The site was created by Concordia students and recent graduates Andrew Pitsiladis, Harry Kavallos, Andrew Gardener and Istvan Pusztai, who won the Dobson Seed Competition (hosted by the John Molson School of Business) in early June. View the site: tutorwith.me
Concordia is well represented at this year's international film festival circuit by students and alumni of the animation program. An unprecedented eight films are lined up for the Ottawa Animation Festival, four at Young Cuts, three at the World Film Festival, and another three at Fantasia, held on campus this past month.
Check out the Faculty of Fine Arts website for more details on the upcoming festivals.
The Department of Studio Arts is well represented at the eighth edition of Art Mûr's Fresh Paint/New Construction exhibition. The annual show features the work of 42 artists from 11 different universities, including that of Concordia's Matthieu Bouchard, Gabriel Bribeau, Mathieu Gagnon and Nathaniel Hurtubise. The exhibition is on display until September 1, 2012, at the Art Mûr gallery (5826 St-Hubert St., Montreal).
A Victoria-raised film student was recently profiled in the Times Colonist for his recent film Boarders across Borders, which premiered June 20. The same film won Andrew Marchand-Boddy the award for best documentary at this year's Concordia Film Festival. The film follows underprivileged youth from Pradera, Colombia, and connects Marchand-Boddy's passion, skateboarding, with empowering the youth. The film documents the construction of the first skate park in Pradera, built with funds raised by the charity of the same name as film, and which also donated 40 skateboards to the locals. Read the article.