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The Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema was originally established as Concordia’s Department of Cinema within the Faculty of Fine Arts in 1976. Founding members included Professor Andre Herman, a graduate of the National Film School in Łódź and La Fémis, who remained with the school until his retirement in 2002, and Alfred Pinsky, the founding dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts, among others.
Guy Street (officially in French: rue Guy) is a north-south street located in downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Concordia University's Integrated Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Complex is located on this street, as is the John Molson School of Business building. The street is home to the Guy-Concordia Metro station.
Fariborz Haghighat is an Iranian-Canadian academic, engineer and Distinguished Professor of Building, Civil & Environmental Engineering at Concordia University. Haghighat has a Concordia University Research Chair (Tier I) in Energy and Environment and he was Inducted into the Provost's Circle of Distinction in 2009. [1]
Akbari was born in Iran. He received his Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1979. [1] He became a U.S. citizen in 1991. [2] He was a senior scientist and the leader of the Heat Island Group at Environmental Energy Technologies Division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1983 to 2009.
When constructed in 1979, the Cornell Electron Storage Ring became the world's primary source of information about one of the fundamental building blocks of matter, the b-quark. After the end of particle physics experiments 20 years later, CESR is now used as a test facility of damping rings for a future international linear collider. [13]
As of April 7, 2010, all of Concordia University's main buildings are connected through a system of underground passages leading to the Guy–Concordia station. A new tunnel was added to the already-existing tunnel that connects the Hall building with the LB building and leads to the station, exiting near the Uniprix store located near the ...
The J.W. McConnell Building is an academic building on the Sir George Williams campus of Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec. Built in 1992, it is named for John Wilson McConnell , a Canadian businessman and philanthropist whose foundation contributed to the building's erection.
The idea that matter was built of discrete building blocks, the so-called particulate theory of matter, appeared in both ancient Greece and ancient India. [6] Early philosophers who proposed the particulate theory of matter include the ancient Indian philosopher Kanada (c. 6th–century BCE or after), [ 7 ] pre-Socratic Greek philosopher ...