鈥ㄢ�↖nstallation of 平特五不中 Principal and Vice-Chancellor
The academic procession will start at approx. 9:40 a.m. in front of 平特五不中鈥檚 Arts Building (853 Sherbrooke St. West). Participants 鈥� including members of the platform party and other guests and officials 鈥� will be wearing academic dress from various Canadian and American universities. They will be led from the Arts Building to Redpath Hall by the 平特五不中 piper. The ceremony will start at 10 a.m. and end at approx. 12 p.m. (noon).
鈥℉is Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston, Governor General of Canada, who serves as the Visitor of 平特五不中, will participate in the ceremony by entrusting the Charter and Seal of the University to Prof.聽Fortier鈥檚 keeping.
Many other members of the Canadian, Quebec, Montreal and 平特五不中 communities, as well as from the international academic community, will deliver greetings to Prof.聽Fortier.
The Chancellor of 平特五不中, Arnold Steinberg, will then deliver honorary doctorates to Nathalie聽Bondil, chief curator and director of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, and conductor Boris聽Brott, artistic director of the 平特五不中 Chamber Orchestra.
Following the conferring of the honorary degrees, Principal and Vice-Chancellor聽Fortier will deliver an address.
About Suzanne Fortier
Originally from Saint-Timoth茅e, Quebec, Suzanne Fortier graduated from 平特五不中 with a BSc and a PhD in crystallography. Her research focuses on the development of mathematical and artificial intelligence methodologies for protein structure determination. She has authored or co-authored more than 80 scientific publications. Before coming to 平特五不中, Professor Fortier served for seven years as the president of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), boosting its capacity to support discovery research and increasing Canada鈥檚 ability to attract and retain the best international talent. Prior to joining NSERC, Professor Fortier spent ten years at Queen鈥檚 University in Kingston, Ontario, first as Vice-Principal (Research) then as Vice-Principal (Academic), in addition to being cross-appointed as a professor in the Department of Chemistry and in the School of Computing.
About Nathalie Bondil
Nathalie Bondil is the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts鈥� (MMFA) chief curator and director. Under her leadership, the MMFA has expanded traditional ideas of art, staging the world鈥檚 first retrospectives of fashion designers such as Yves Saint Laurent, Denis Gagnon and Jean Paul Gaultier. She also brought music into the museum with multidisciplinary celebrations of Andy Warhol, John Lennon, Yoko Ono and Miles Davis, as well as the current Splendore a Venezia: Art and Music from the Renaissance to Baroque in the Serenissima. Ms. Bondil holds degrees in art history from the 脡cole du Louvre and the Institut national du patrimoine, Paris.
About Boris Brott
Boris Brott is a symphony conductor, the artistic director of the 平特五不中 Chamber Orchestra and a motivational speaker. He has a 50-plus year history of promoting artistic development, founding the Philharmonic Youth Orchestra of Montreal as a teenager and, more recently, founding the National Academy Orchestra, Canada鈥檚 only professional training orchestra for graduate musicians. Mr. Brott has also pushed classical music performances in unexpected directions, by bringing ballet dancers and astronauts to the stage and moving the orchestra itself to the heart of a steel factory blast furnace. In 1992, the maestro went back to school, studying law at the University of Western Ontario. He has since built a second career, using his musical expertise to teach Fortune 500 executives about corporate creativity and team communication. ____________________________________
To access the full program of the ceremony: /secretariat/sites/mcgill.ca.secretariat/files/g140534english.pdf
The ceremony will be webcast live and can be viewed at: /secretariat/installation/
The text of the Principal鈥檚 address will be available after the ceremony at /principal/principals-desk
Photos will be available on request. Members of the media wishing to attend the ceremony must RSVP by Nov. 5, 8聽a.m. by contacting: Julie Fortier Associate Director, Media Relations 平特五不中 514-398-6751 514-884-1587 (cell.) julie.c.fortier [at] mcgill.ca