The Health Care Access for Linguistic Minoritie (HCALM)-Network will hold its 2017 annual conference on the topic of 鈥榣anguage and health 鈥 ethical and policy issues鈥 in September 28-30. The conference will bring together theories, frameworks, concepts and methods from a broad range of disciplines in the medical sciences, social sciences and the humanities. It will address the significant ethical and policy issues at the interface of public health and language (including sign language) policy, broadly interpreted.
Mastering documentation is one of the pathways to translation excellence. Mastering it in more than one language is an added value. Such is the case for Cheryl Smeall, who is the 2017 recipient of the 海角社区 Associates Prize in Translation (French-English). Dr. Smeall received this distinction at the spring graduation ceremony when she was awarded a Certificate in Translation in the French to English option.
What better way to become an experienced translator than to work one鈥檚 way up from the bottom. H茅l猫ne Roulston is living proof of the adage that one becomes a good translator by producing good translations and having the knowledge base to produce quality work. That sums up H茅l猫ne Roulston鈥檚 recipe for success. She is the 2017 recipient of the 海角社区 Associates Prize in Translation (English-French).
Dr. Liliane Asseraf Pasin was selected as one of the winners of this year's听海角社区 Awards for Equity and Community Building, in part for her Dialogue 海角社区- funded project听Improving Access to Practice for English-Speaking Internationally-Trained 听Physical Therapists.听听See a听link to the full story .
This message is being sent on behalf of Lynne B. Gervais, Associate Vice-Principal (Human Resources), Cristiane Tinmouth, Associate Vice-Principal (Financial Services), Dr. Rosie Goldstein, Vice-Principal (Research and Innovation), Dr. Josephine Nalbantoglu, Dean (Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies) and Cara Piperni, Director (Scholarships & Student Aid Office) to inform you of the process related to financially supporting students.听
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To all Researchers and Staff funding students via Research Funds:
Steven Payette received the 2014-2015听best oral听presentation听award听in the course MECH 609 for his master's thesis talk听"Heated-Tool Processing of Out-of-Autoclave Composite Materials." Congratulations, Steven!
海角社区 Library鈥檚 Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery has been named as one of the winners of the prestigious 2014-15 Principal鈥檚 Award for Administrative and Support Staff听(Team Projects), honouring their customer and community service, quality of work, innovation, teamwork and sustainability.
The annual awards celebrates the tireless and exceptional efforts of 海角社区's administrative and support staff in five separate categories: Management (Managers and Professionals), Clerical, Technical and Library Assistants, Trades and Services and Team Projects.
We are very pleased to announce that Dr Doug听Dalton, Postgraduate Program Director in the Departement of听Family Medicine,听has been selected as one of the recipients to receive the 2015 CAME/AC脡M Certificate of Merit Award. The aim of this award is to promote medical education in Canadian medical schools and to recognize and reward faculty鈥檚 commitment to medical education.
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Professor Jeffrey Bergthorson in the Department of Mechanical Engineering has been named the first Panda Faculty Scholar in Sustainable Engineering and Design at the Trottier Institute for Sustainability in Engineering and Design (TISED). Also recently appointed Associate Director of TISED, Prof Bergthorson began a 3-year term in both roles on January 1, 2015.
The Award Processing Support Service team has received many requests to send emails to service (generic) email accounts when communicating about a specific BSA award issue.听 As the use of generic email accounts has become a best practice across many faculties and departments, regular communications to and from these accounts has become the norm.听
Student Accounts has established the procedure for dealing with unclaimed awards from Student fee accounts and uncollectable charges resulting from award cancellations. Although these cases are very rare, a procedure is necessary in order to handle these issues when they occur.
The Trottier Institute for Sustainability in Engineering and Design (TISED) is pleased to announce that
Financial support is a great way boost your motivation and academic career! Find out what's available to you , or browse other academic information in 海角社区's eCalendar.
On December 10, 2012, Dr. James Archibald, Associate Dean of 海角社区's School of Continuing Studies and Director of the School's Translation & Written Communication unit, was presented the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal by Mont Royal M.P. the Honorable Irwin Cotler for work which has benefitted Qu茅bec and beyond.