MONTREAL/September 10, 2007—
Concordia University has been awarded a new Tier-2 Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Political Sociology of Global Futures, for Satoshi Ikeda, in the department of Sociology and Anthropology in the Faculty of Arts and Science. Tier-2 chairs are for exceptional emerging researchers, acknowledged by their peers as having the potential to lead their field. For each Tier 2 Chair, the university receives $100,000 annually for five years.
“Building a larger base of scientific expertise and enhancing Canada’s international reputation for research excellence are key elements of Mobilizing Science and Technology to Canada’s Advantage, our government’s new Science and Technology Strategy,” said the Honourable Diane Ablonczy, Secretary of State (Small Business and Tourism), on behalf of the Honourable Jim Prentice, Minister of Industry and Minister responsible for the Canada Research Chairs Program. “Our Government recognizes the importance of doing more to help transform and commercialize scientific and technological innovations. This in turn will help create better jobs, increase economic growth and improve our quality of life.”
Concordia’s President Claude Lajeunesse welcomed the announcement saying “this new addition to our Concordia team shows once again the strength of our academic community and reflects Concordia’s growing research profile and our efforts to expand our research horizons.”
Professor Ikeda arrived at Concordia in July, 2007 from the University of Alberta where he compared the trajectories of 150 countries under globalization and examined sustainable agriculture in rural Alberta (SARA Project). At Concordia, he will examine socially and ecologically sustainable alternatives to the current global economy and politics dominated by the USA and global corporations. This research will contribute to our understanding of the problems with current globalisation, and how we could work toward socially and ecologically sustainable futures.
The Canada Research Chairs program was launched in 2000 and helps universities attract and retain the best researchers and achieve excellence in the natural sciences and engineering, health services, social sciences and the humanities.
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Tanya Churchmuch
Senior Media Relations Advisor
Concordia University
