Randy Mauskopf. Caroline Vu. Eric Piccoli. Sue Proctor. Catherine Martos Fichten. Anna-Maria Hard. Alain Hébert.
Concordia in the news
Posted on October 24, 2016
Alumni in the news
Our alumni are featured in the media locally and around the world. Vist the Alumni News section to access an archive of stories or read the latest list of stories:
- Masthead and Grenier aux nouvelles carry a release announcing the appointment of Randy Mauskopf (MBA) as Quebecor's director of media creativity solutions in Toronto.
- Info-Culture publishes a review of the Caroline Vu book Un été à Provincetown, (Éditions Pleine Lune) translated from the original English, That Summer in Provincetown (Guernica Editions). The biographical footnote to the review states that Vu completed a program of study in psychology at Concordia and mentions that Vu's first novel, Palawan Story (Deux Voiliers, 2014), was shortlisted for the Quebec Writers' Federation Concordia University First Book Prize.
- CBC.ca reports that Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment is currently developing an adaptation of the local web drama, Time Out, about the challenges faced by survivors of a cataclysmic event that plunges North America into an eternal winter. It quotes Time Out co-creator Eric Piccoli, a graduate of Concordia's Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. Piccoli was also interviewed on CBC Montreal's Daybreak (no link available).
- A CBC.ca report about the ongoing "creepy clown" craze focuses on the work of professional clown Sue Proctor, who it says earned a master's degree at Concordia, where she studied the role of the clown for individual and social transformation. Proctor, who was interviewed for the CBC Winnipeg radio program Up to Speed (no link available) says terror and creepy clowns have no place in the clown world.
- Le Devoir, profiling Dawson College psychology professor Catherine Martos Fichten, notes that Fichten holds a master's degree in psychology from Concordia.
- Radio Canada's La Facture, reprised by Huffington Post Québec, reports on the risks associated with teeth-whitening procedures carried out by non-health professionals. The story focuses on the case of Anna-Maria Hard (BFA '16), who complained of burn injuries to her lips and gums during such a procedure at the Pearl White Solutions clinic, in Dollard-des-Ormeaux.
- Le Journal de Joliette announces that former Lower Canada College history and French teacher Alain Hébert (BA, history) will give a talk on the history of education in the Lanaudière region, this Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in Joliette.