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DESCRIPTION:Tune into a live webcast of our Desautels CEO Speaker Series fe
 aturing:\nSuzanne Fortier\, BSc'72\, PhD'76Principal & Vice-Chancellor\, M
 cGill University\nDate: November 29\, 2013Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmWebcast 
 Link: http://bcooltv.mcgill.ca/Viewer/?EventID=201311124829\nDuring the li
 ve webcast\, please send us your questions for Principal Fortier using the
  hashtag: #DesautelsCEO. \nMake sure to follow us on Twitter for updates: 
 @desautelsmcgill \nAbout Principal Suzanne Fortier:\nA native of St-Timoth
 ée\, Québec\, Dr. Fortier is a graduate of ºÚÁÏÍø\, where she received a B
 Sc (1972) and a Ph.D. in Crystallography (1976). While at ºÚÁÏÍø\, she was
  awarded both an Entrance Scholarship and the R.P.D. Graham Scholarship fo
 r an exceptional student in Geological Sciences.\nDr. Fortier has served m
 ost recently as President of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research
  Council of Canada (NSERC). In her role\, Dr. Fortier brought renewed focu
 s on excellence to the agency. She increased its capacity to support disco
 very research and Canada's ability to attract and retain the best students
  and professors\, promote business-academic relationships and foster innov
 ation. She also forged stronger relationships with other national and inte
 rnational granting agencies and organizations to increase the number\, sco
 pe and impact of joint initiatives available to researchers. Through her w
 ork at NSERC\, Dr. Fortier has participated in numerous conferences\, task
  groups and workshops\, at both the national and international level\, and
  has made invited presentations on science\, technology and innovation\, w
 omen in science and engineering\, and the recruitment of the next generati
 ons of scientists and engineers.\nBefore her appointment as President of N
 SERC in January 2006\, Dr. Fortier held the posts of Vice-Principal (Resea
 rch) from 1995 to 2000 and Vice-Principal (Academic) from 2000 to 2005 at 
 Queen's University in Kingston\, Ontario\, where she was also a Professor 
 in the Department of Chemistry and in the School of Computing.\nDr. Fortie
 r is a crystallographer by training\, specializing in the development of m
 athematical and artificial intelligence methodologies for protein structur
 e determination. She has also made contributions to the development of nov
 el techniques in crystallographic data mining to gain new insights from th
 e large structural databases. She was a member of the Protein Engineering 
 Network of Centres of Excellence (PENCE)\, the Institute for Robotics and 
 Intelligent Systems (IRIS) and Communications and Information Technology O
 ntario (CITO). She has authored or co-authored over 80 scientific publicat
 ions and had made numerous invited scientific presentations.\nShe has rece
 ived the Clara Benson Award for distinguished contributions to chemistry b
 y a woman (1997)\, the Entrepreneurship Award from Communications and Info
 rmation Technology Ontario (1997)\, the Queen's University Distinguished S
 ervice Award (2005)\, an Honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Thompson R
 ivers University in British Columbia (June 2006) and the Queen Elizabeth I
 I Diamond Jubilee Medal (2012). She is also a fellow of the American Assoc
 iation for the Advancement of Science and an officer of France’s National 
 Order of Merit.\nDr. Fortier served as a member of the Board of Directors 
 of the Ontario Centres of Excellence Inc.\, the Board of Governors of the 
 Royal Military College of Canada and the federal government's Council of S
 cience and Technology Advisors (CSTA). She is currently a member of the Bo
 ard of Directors of the Canada Foundation for Innovation\, the Strategic C
 ommittee of Investissements d’Excellence Bordeaux\, Steering Committee of 
 the Networks of Centres of Excellence and the Ontario Task Force on Compet
 itiveness\, Productivity and Economic Progress.
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SUMMARY:Desautels CEO Speaker Series Webcast: Principal Suzanne Fortier\, B
 Sc'72\, PhD'76
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