Accolades for the week of April 23
Congratulations to Anthony Seck, BFA (film production) 92, who brought home the Juno Award for Music DVD of the Year for Feist’s Look At What The Light Did Now, and to Timothy Hecker, MA (public policy & public administration) 03, who won the Juno Award in the category of Electronic Album of the Year for Ravedeath 1972.
The Juno Awards are presented annually to Canadian musical artists and bands to acknowledge their artistic and technical achievements in all aspects of music.
Cinema professor Michel Choquette has been nominated for a Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards 2012 in the Best Anthology category for his editing of The Someday Funnies. The results will be announced in a gala awards ceremony on the evening of Friday, July 13 at Comic-Con International in San Diego.
Michelle Nokken, associate professor in the Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering, has been elected a Fellow of the American Concrete Institute in honour of her outstanding contributions to the production or use of concrete materials, products, and structures in the areas of education and research, development. In addition, Nokken has made significant contributions to the ACI through committees and the local chapters.
Nokken has also been appointed associate editor of the ASCE Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering.
Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Catherine Mulligan won first prize in the 2011 Golder Sustainability Awards for her collaboration with the Canadian National Railway on the development of a wastewater module for the GoldSET-CN Module.
The first Charles C. Gurd Artist Residency Award for Concordia University at the Vermont Studio Center has been awarded to Carissa Carman, a part-time faculty member and MFA candidate in the Department of Studio Arts.
The center’s Residency Program is the largest in the United States and hosts 50 international visual artists and writers each month. Full-time studio arts faculty, graduate and undergraduate students with at least 30 credits are eligible for the four-week annual fellowship.
Graduating BFA Design student Tiffany Blaise is the winner of the Surface3 Design Award, an annual prize created by Surface3 Design principals Carla El Samra, BFA (design) 01, and Jason Shatilla, BFA (design) 03, in recognition of outstanding student work reflecting concerns of sustainability. Blaise’s winning design was a scroll lamp.