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By Julie Gedeon 14 Alumni profi le Finger on the pulse of 22 health policy activism University of Ottawa Political Science Professor Michael Orsini, BA 91, MA 96, Great grads examines the growing infl uence of healthcare activists. We introduce you to eight of Concordia’s 3 EDITOR’S VOICE by Patrick McDonagh best and brightest new graduates. 4 LETTERS 5 PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE 6 CONCORDIA NEWS Look for your winter 2009/10 issue online 28 ASSOCIATION NEWS In an effort to go green and cut costs, the Concordia University Magazine’s winter 2009/10 issue will appear 32 CLASS ACTS online only at magazine.concordia.ca. We will notify 40 ENOUGH SAID readers by email when the issue goes live. To make sure we have your updated contact information, send an email to [email protected] or visit alumni.concordia.ca. The online winter 2009/10 issue will feature the following stories:  Concordia’s Olympic connections  The 2010 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences to be held at Concordia  The research of Concordia Psychology professor William Bukowski on how peer relations contribute to children’s emotional and social development  Digital artist LiQin Tan, MFA 93, associate professor of Art at Rutgers University in Camden, N.J. Our 2009 graduates, from left to right: Mohammad Asgar Khan, MASc (mech. eng.) 09; Mei Mei Zhang, MSc (admin.) 09; Jianguo Wu, MSc (admin.) 09; and Patrizia Scali, BSc (exer. sci) 09. STAY INVOLVED WITH CONCORDIA THROUGH YOUR ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Through the Concordia University Alumni Association, you can keep in touch with fellow alumni, give back to your university and enjoy exciting programs and activities that include: • Networking and career events • The Concordia Mentor Program • Chapter events, golf tournaments, reunions and more. Benefi ts: • Concordia University Mosaik®MasterCard® • Preferred home and auto insurance rates with TD Insurance Meloche Monnex • Preferred life, accident, disability, health and dental insurance rates with Manulife Financial • Alumni Travel Program • T he CUAA Online Magazine Store, atmagfundraising.ca/cuaa,that offers you savings of up to 85 percent off newsstand prices for more than 600 French and English magazines • Access to Concordia’s libraries and other services • With your Alumni ID Card, obtain savings on Via Rail, Nautilus Plus, Budget Rent-a-Car and more. alumni.concordia.ca 514-848-2424, ext. 4856, or 1-888-777-3330 EEddiittoorr’’ssVVooiiccee Cheers to your health F ormer United States president health of health-policy activism,” page George W. Bush left a mixed legacy, 18). Orsini is an associate professor to be charitable. But Bush got at of Political Science at the University least one thing right: in 2003, he created of Ottawa. His research looks into the the President’s Emergency Plan for increasing presence and infl uence AIDS Relief, which has injected billions of healthcare activists who support of dollars into the fi ght against AIDS in the educational scope and access to efforts to alleviate affl ictions that Africa and elsewhere and allowed more information and services for HIV/ include autism and HIV/AIDS. Both than one million people to be treated for AIDS and sexually transmitted disease Orsini and Namaste agree that while the virus. As a result, he and his wife, prevention. She works with groups most people are not directly affected Laura, received the 2009 Leadership that often fall below the public-health by ailments such as autism or HIV/ Award in May from the Baylor radar, including transsexuals, bisexuals AIDS, government health policy, which International Pediatric AIDS Initiative. and swingers. As she toldConcordia includes defi ning how resources are The Bushes join Canadian Stephen University Magazine,Namaste strives allocated and developing strategies to Lewis, the former United Nations envoy to convert her academic fi ndings control the prevention and spread of for AIDS in Africa, on the impressive into action by delivering to affected diseases, affect all of us. list of award recipients. communities accurate and tailored Our cover story features the It’s really not all that surprising that information through, for example, impressive, new John Molson School Bush and now, his successor, Barak advertising campaigns and websites, of Business (JMSB) building (see Obama, are grappling with healthcare and advocating for government policy “Open for business,” page 8). Many of issues. Obama is trying to revamp the changes. you will remember the empty lot that U.S. health insurance system, which is Namaste’s type of advocacy is a stood on the corner of De Maisonneuve making many Americans nervous about research focus for Michael Orsini, BA Boulevard and Guy Street from 1997 the future quality of their healthcare. Of 91, MA 96, who is this issue’s alumni until 2006. On that lot now stands a course, health and healthcare are also pprofi le (see “Assessingg the 155-storey, glass-and-steel, eco-friendly primary concerns for Canadians annd structuure that Concordia’s facilities others around the world. In 2007, mannagement team brought to HIV/AIDS caused more than fruition in just two and a half 2 million deaths worldwide years—and under budget. It compared with coronary heart will be the fi rst time all JMSB disease, the number-one classes and offi ces and its killer that felled 7.2 million, nearly 8,000 undergraduates according to the World Health and graduates will be housed Organization. We can now add under one roof. JMSB Dean the H1N1 infl uenza, mad cow Saanjay Sharma told me that while disease, avian fl u and others to the studdents will benefi t from modern inventory of health threats. cclassrooms and study areas, It’s a propos, then, that the learning and working in one themes of health and government venue will also bring students, health policy are prominent in professors and staff members this issue of Concordia University closer together as a community. Magazine.Our faculty profi le The prognosis for both the features Viviane Namaste, an new facility and Concordia’s associate professor and research business school is upbeat. chair in HIV/AIDS and Sexual Health at Concordia’s Simone de Conccordia University Magazine’s Beauvoir Institute (see “Looking winteer 2009/10 issue will appear online out for the overlooked,” page onlyy atmagazine.concordia.ca.See the 14). Namaste seeks to expand table of contents page for more details. ccoonnccoorrddiiaa uunniivveerrssiittyy mmaaggaazziinnee ffaallll 22000099 || 33 Letters Doing good in South Africa bunk beds included!). Although Foundation does incredible work at T he alumni profi les, “Doing good volunteers are dispatched to various the grassroots level in 15 sub-Saharan for others” (Summer 2009), placements, time is set aside each countries on the African continent, stole my heart! I recently signed day for cultural and learning activities, focusing on women, orphans, up to volunteer in South Africa with such as language classes in isiXhosa grandmothers and people living with the help of Cross-Cultural Solutions, and Afrikaans, discussions with guest HIV and AIDS. Our group has more a non-profi t organization that operates speakers on topics such as the origins, than 70 members and in our fi rst year volunteer programs lasting from one history, and legacy of apartheid, we raised more than $25,000. (Since to 12 weeks in Africa, Asia, Eastern the liberation struggle, its heroes, our goal was $5,000, I think we did Europe and Latin America. HIV/AIDS and other social challenges rather well.) From a very young age, I knew that in South Africa. It makes me proud to be part of one day my life would be fi lled with Thanks for shining the spotlight the long link of Concordia graduates not one, not two, but hundreds of kids. on such stories, particularly Wilhelmina like Wilhelmina Fredericks who are It took me years to voice this dream. Fredericks’s “Scaling Kilimanjaro reaching out to make this a better For the past two years, I committed to for kids.” It confi rms my belief that world. Thank you for showing that fi nding a way to make this dream we are more alike than we are different our graduates give rather than get. a reality. and that my contribution, no matter how small, is a step forward. H. Carol Schmidt, S BA 61 Kitchener-Waterloo Pascale Bijoux, BA 95 Montreal En français I just wanted to express my Grandmothers satisfaction for the French article to grandmothers called “L’art de motive son personnel” T he Summer 2009Concordia (Summer 2009). As a francophone University Magazinewas one of Concordia alumnus, it was much the most interesting I received over appreciated. the years. I enjoyed the article called “Doing good forothers” and the piece Marc Roy, BComm 08 about Wilhelmina Fredericks especially Laval, Que. caught and held my attention. In April 2008, my friend, Hilary Walsh, and I started a Grandmothers group in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ont. After months of research, a few We are among nearly 240 groups of Concordia University Magazine welcomes sleepless nights and some very brutal Canadian grandmothers raising money readers’ comments. Letters should include self-assessment, I decided to volunteer for the Grandmothers to Grandmothers the writer’s full name, address, school(s), in South Africa because of the richness campaign (grandmotherscampaigns.org) degree(s) and year(s) of graduation for of its history and the resilience of of the Stephen Lewis Foundation alumni. Letters may be selected and edited its people. I will head to Cape Town (stephenlewisfoundation.org). The for length, style and appropriateness. in December. My exact placement No letter will be published without facility has yet to be confi rmed but the full name of the correspondent. I may work in an orphanage, hospital, Correspondence should be sent to: school, elder-care facility or with any other group needing urgent The Editor This publication is printed on 100% and immediate assistance. Concordia University Magazine recycled paper, including 20% post While in Cape Town, I will live and consumer waste. For each ton of 1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd. West work with 10 to 15 other volunteers recycled paper that displaces a ton of Montreal, QC H3G 1M8 virgin paper, it reduces total energy from Canada and elsewhere. All consumption by 27%, greenhouse Fax: 514-848-4510 volunteers bunk together at what gas emissions by 47%, particulate email: [email protected] emissions by 28%, wastewater by is known as Homebase (this will website: magazine.concordia.ca 33%, solid waste by 54% and wood be like summer camp all over again— use by 100%. 4 || faall 2000099 ccoonccoorddiaa uuniveerssittyy maaggaazinee President’sMessage Looking forward to our new season F or most of us, summer came late but then struck with a vengeance. As the days get shorter and temperatures drop, there are fewer regrets in the university world than elsewhere. We are now moving toward our belle saison of vibrant colours, new faces beaming with anticipation, and a sense of excitement— as well as a nip—in the air. And while I can no longer claim to be Concordia’s “new” president, there’s so much that’s shiny, new and innovative at the university that I, too, revel in the fresh start. Highlighted in this issue, the new home for the John Molson School of ABER H Bmuuscihn efassn foapreen asn idts m daonoyr sk tuhdios sm. Eonletgha tnot, F. ANIEL D airy, spacious and energy effi cient, it Concordia President and Vice-Chancellor Judith Woodsworth addressing Sir George Williams, will stand as a landmark and symbol Loyola and Concordia graduates from the years 1963, 1968, 1973 and 1978 at the President’s Reunion Brunch September 27, 2008, during Homecoming festivities. Woodsworth is looking of the ever-increasing quality of the forward to the new school year and the upcoming Homecoming festivities. programs it houses. As usual, we are pleased to introduce you to some of the most stellar members course for the next few years, as we of the Concordia family. We are proud identify the actions that will be taken SAVE THE DATE of the accomplishments of faculty across the university to achieve the goals members and great grads, which you will set out in “Reaching Up, Reaching Out,” President’s read about in these pages. the university’s strategic framework. Conference Series: Speaking of grads, we are planning Keep your eyes peeled for further “Every Breath You Take: an action-packed Homecoming for the developments. benefi t of returning alumni and members I look forward to seeing you at Surveillance, Security and of the university community. We will Homecoming, the many alumni the End of Privacy” feature a series of athletic, cultural and activities at home and away that are Wednesday, social events, including the third annual planned for the coming year, and— November 4, 2009 Family Fair Day, which we expect to attract where most of you are concerned— up to 2,000 neighbours and friends for a simply around town and on campus. day of fun on the Loyola Campus. As always, I invite you to say “hi” and Visit concordia.ca/ Amid the celebrations, we will be hard introduce, or re-introduce, yourselves. presidentsconferences at work orienting new faculty members Until then, have a great fall,et for updates and students. We are also setting the bonne rentrée! published without the full name of the Dépôt légal : Bibliothèque nationale mail agreement # 40065749 correspondent. du Québec. ©2009. university magazine Printed in Canada. Editorial Board Concordia University Magazine is Howard Bokser, editor and chair. Concordia University Magazine published four times a year for alumni Pcoleraressep aodnddreenscse e tdoit:orial MSuesmanb eErlsia: sS,a Lmini dAan Ktaakyi,, LJuochyn NAiyrole, n, welcomes readers’ comments. and friends of Concordia University. The Editor, Howard Bokser Nicole Saltiel, Sandra-Lynn Spina, Letters should include the writer’s Opinions expressed herein do not Donna Varrica, Xurxo Vidal. full name, address, school(s), necessarily refl ect the views of the For advertising information, call degree(s) and year(s) of graduation alumni associations or of the University. 514-848-2424, ext. 3819. Graphic Design: Concordia Marketing for alumni. Letters may be edited for Communications, P100188. length and clarity. No letter will be ISSN 0706-1005 Canada Post Corporation publication Art Direction: Christopher Alleyne concordia university magazine fall 2009 | 5 ConcordiaNewsss Philanthropic Concorrddiiaa grads at Ernst & Younnggg contribute to JMSB building fund The fi rst gift announcement HY ocef rtehme Joonhyn i nM tohles onne wSc hhoomole oof L PHOTOGRAP B Business (JMSB) was held on July P 9, when professional services fi rm B, LAU Ernst & Young and its employees whhho R YAN are Concordia alumni announced aa Ernst & Young team members, from left to right in the back row: Patrick Taza, BComm 96; Soula donation of $315,000 to the JMSB Kitsos, GrDip 95; Michelina Lanni, BComm 87; Albert Anelli, GrDip 93; Michael La Salle; Rod Building Fund. In recognition of Budd, S BComm 74; Alfred Zorzi, BComm 85; Georgia Tournas, GrDip 00; Edith Hitt, BComm 06; the gift, a 150-seat classroom in thee Tammy Mio, BComm 90; and Aline Aswa, BComm 03. Holding the cheque from left to right: Lou building was named the Ernst & Youunngg Pagnutti, chairman & CEO, Ernst & Young; Ted Di Giorgio, senior partner, Ernst & Young; Sanjay Sharma, dean, Concordia University’s John Molson School of Business; and Judith Woodsworth, Amphitheatre. president and vice-chancellor, Concordia University. The classroom features sophisticated technology and teaching resources, such as ceiling-mounted digital projection, town, said this gift “reaffi rms [Ernst support this initiative,” said Concordia three-zone lighting and a motorized & Young’s] steadfast confi dence in President and Vice-Chancellor Judith projection screen. the university and the JMSB.” She Woodsworth. “Joining Project Hero Kathy Assayag, Concordia vice- added that Concordia will continue to is a fi tting way to honour the memory president of Advancement and Alumni educate students in “an effective and of those who have made the ultimate Relations, told the 50 or so guests responsible way” to ensure “we remain sacrifi ce through military service. I at the ceremony that the university committed to the companies and would like to thank Andrew Molson, valued Ernst & Young’s longstanding professions we serve.” a long-time friend of Concordia support and partnership. She thanked JMSB Dean Sanjay Sharma also University and a member of our Board Chairman and CEO Lou Pagnutti and thanked Ernst & Young for the vote of Governors, for bringing this worthy Senior Partner Ted Di Giorgio, BComm of confi dence in its students and cause to our attention.” 86, GrDip (acct.) 88, for spearheading programs. Sharma said the new Molson, vice chairman of Molson an internal fundraising campaign. Di amphitheatre will provide “cutting-edge Coors Brewing Company, said he was Giorgio persuaded senior management learning facilities” and support “an determined to drum up support for to match funds raised by Concordia outstanding academic experience.” this worthy cause. “I am also proud to graduates working for Ernst & Young. —Staff represent the Royal Montreal Regiment Describing Concordia as a as Honorary Lieutenant-Colonel and, in Concordia fi rst Quebec “wonderful institution,” Pagnutti said that capacity, I heartily endorse actions alumni “are proud of the education university to support that further recognize the devotion they received and are eager to give back to duty of the women and men in the Project Hero to the school that helped launch their Canadian Forces,” he said. C careers.” He added that Ernst & Young oncordia announced July 14 that Scholarships will be given to is “very proud to support the growth of it established a scholarship, dependent children of Canadian Forces a new generation of business leaders. called Project Hero to provide members who were killed while serving The Ernst & Young Amphitheatre will fi nancial assistance to children of in an active mission dating back to be a wonderful place for Concordia Canadian Forces personnel who February 2002, the start of Canada’s students to learn and develop were killed while serving in an active mission in Afghanistan. Scholarships innovative ideas that will chart a new military mission. Memorial University will be worth $2,000 per year for a course for Canadian business.” in Newfoundland, the University of maximum of four years. Concordia President and Vice- Ottawa, the University of Windsor and To be eligible, candidates must be: Chancellor Judith Woodsworth, who the University of Calgary will also offer  26 years old or younger noted that she met Pagnutti when she Project Hero scholarships.  Citizens or permanent residents of served as president of Laurentian “I am proud to announce Concordia Canada University in Sudbury, Ont., his home is the fi rst Quebec university to  Full-time students enrolled at 66 || ffaallll 22000099 ccoonnccoorrddiiaa uunniivveerrssiittyy mmaaggaazziinnee Concordia University in a course of & Productivity Awarrds study leading to an undergraduate program is aimed att degree. promoting excellennce “I am delighted Concordia University and innovation in is throwing its support behind us,” higher education. said Kevin Reed, honorary lieutenant- Concordia began colonel of the 31 Brigade, Service Units, using the new and vice chairman of Grey Horse Corp. composting system in “We launched Project Hero with the 2008, making it thee hope that it would fi nd support with only Quebec public or post-secondary institutions right across private institution tto Canada. Concordia is a valuable link in collect organic wastte on the national network of universities that this scale and comppost continues to expand.” it on site. Thanks too the —Staff system located on thhe Loyola Campus, within CCoonnccoorrdddiiiaa’’ss aawwaarrddd-wwiiinnnniiinngg ccoommppoosstttiiinngg ssyyssttteemm oonn ttthhhee LLLooyyoolllaa CCCaammppuuss Concordia composter fi ve years, Concordiia wins Quality & will compost 100 tonnes of Every tonne of organic waste organic waste annually. composted on site saves two tonnes of Productivity Award The university’s previous composting greenhouse gas emissions and decreases T he Canadian Association of systems could only handle fruit and acid-rain and smog by cutting down on University Business Offi ces has vegetable waste. The new and larger transportation. The compost is used to awarded Concordia a Quality & automated thermophilic system also fertilize the campus green spaces. Productivity Award for its large-scale, allows for the processing of dairy, meat For more information, visit sustainable. on-site composting system. The Quality and grain products. concordia.ca. —Staff N O A N N U A L F E E concordia university magazine fall 2009 | 7 John Molson School of Business students and faculty members will reap the benefits of a spectacular new building in the heart of the Sir George Williams Campus. I f the three tenets of real estate academic standing. “There is already students in the JMSB (originally really are location, location, much for us to be proud of. We’re top known as the Faculty of Commerce and location, then Concordia’s John notch in so many areas, such as faculty Administration) trekked to classes Molson School of Business (JMSB) has research and student successes,” across both campuses. defi nitely upped its worth. The JMSB’s Sharma says. “It would be diffi cult to What’s more, Dean Sharma says impressive, $118.5-million building fi nd a school that has had a similar classrooms in the Hall Building and on De Maisonneuve Boulevard and Guy string of successes in international case scattered among other locations often Street opened its doors this summer competitions.” didn’t meet technological requirements to faculty and staff members and The JMSB’s brand equity will be or were too small. “You not only had 40 welcomed nearly 8,000 undergraduate bolstered by its new home, says Harold students crammed into 30- or 35-seat and graduate students in September. Simpkins, senior lecturer in Marketing rooms but in many of the rooms, there JMSB Dean Sanjay Sharma points out and academic director of the Marketing were pillars blocking the view of the that all the business school’s classes, Co-op Program. “We interview every board,” Sharma explains. research labs and offi ces The new building was are fi nally under one designed and built to meet For the fi rst time, the John Molson roof. “For the fi rst time, the needs of students, the John Molson School faculty and staff members School of Business has a home. of Business has a home,” who will have easy access to Sharma says. its 45 modern classrooms, Even before the move, the JMSB student for the Co-op Program and most of which seat 60 people (see was earning a worldwide reputation 80 percent have said they’re looking sidebar, “Go with the student for excellence. The school ranked fi rst forward to being in the new building,” fl ow”). The facility also boasts seven in Canada in 2007, 2008 and 2009 in Simpkins says. Marketing professor amphitheatres (there used to be one terms of graduates occupying the rank Gad Saad echoes this sentiment. “Given amphitheatre for the Executive MBA and of Chief Executive Offi cer at Fortune the growing prestige and stature of another for the Aviation MBA in the Guy 500 companies, according to survey the JMSB, it’s nice to have a building Metro Building) and about 50 smaller, results by the École des Mines de that is commensurate with our path of group-study rooms for students. All the Paris. The school’s MBA program sits ascendancy,” Saad says. classrooms are equipped with sliding fi rst in Quebec and third nationally blackboards, high-defi nition projectors among 35 Canadian MBA programs that Home at last and screens, audio-visual equipment integrate sustainability into the school Despite its long history at the university, and sound insulation. Many of the experience, as indicated by the sixth the JMSB has never had a building of its rooms are fi tted with horseshoe-shaped annual Knights School Survey results own. Concordia’s business school has seating aimed at facilitating students’ that were published in June in Corporate its roots in the founding institutions of in-class case work and presentations, Knights Magazine. Sharma adds that the Loyola College and Sir George Williams which, Sharma says, are integral to the business school’s top-fl ight facilities University. After the institutions School’s curriculum. are now on par with its high-calibre merged in 1974 to form Concordia, Harold Simpkins says the new OPEN FOR 8 | fall 2009 concordia university magazine

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