Michael Gibbons, L BSc 59, received an honorary doctorate at Concordia’s convocation at Place des Arts, December 2. Michael is the former Secretary-General of the Association of Commonwealth Universities, among the largest NGOs in the Commonwealth, comprising 500 universities from 36 countries. Before that, he was dean of the graduate school and director of a science policy research institute at the University of Sussex. After Concordia he earned degrees from McGill and Queen’s and a PhD in theoretical physics from Manchester University. Among his many honours during his 35-year career in academics and governance are an MBE, the Government of Canada’s Golden Jubilee Medal, the Fellow from the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, an LLD (honoris causa) from the University of Ghana and the Lieutenant Governor’s Silver Medal (Quebec). Michael is also the author of 13 books and has been published in more than 90 journals.

Bruce Mallen, S BComm 58, S BA 64, received an honorary doctorate at Concordia’s convocation at Place des Arts, December 2. Bruce is dean of the College of Business at Florida Atlantic University. He spent 25 years at Sir George Williams and Concordia universities as a student, faculty member and administrator before leaving Montreal in 1978 for a varied career that included being involved in the film industry in Hollywood. In 1996, Bruce returned to the academic world, joining Florida Atlantic University as dean of its College of Business. Bruce’s many honours include the following: Ford Foundation Fellow (1961), New York University Founders Day Award (1964), the New York University Stern School of Business Alumni Achievement Award for Distinction in the Entertainment Industry (1990), and the Greater Boca Raton Chamber of Commerce International Business Leader of the Year Award (1999).

Pascale Quiviger, BFA (studio arts) 97, won the 2004 Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction in the French-language competition for Le cercle parfait. The novel, her first, is a moving love story set on two continents. Pascale, who also has an MA in philosophy from Université de Montréal and Université des Sciences humaines de Strasbourg (France), went to Rome in 1998 to study printmaking. She still lives in Italy, where she paints, writes and teaches visual arts. She has exhibited in both Canada and Italy, and also published a book of short stories, Ni sol ni ciel (Instant même) in 2001. That same year Pascale won a Celanese Canada Internationalist Fellowship to pursue her studies in printmaking and Byzantine art.