Jane Stewart, distinguished Professor Emeritus of Concordia’s Department of Psychology, is being honoured by her alma mater Queen’s University at a November 21 reception at the McCord Museum in Montreal.

Stewart will receive the John B. Stirling Montreal Medal for her high level of service to Queen’s University and to Canada.

Throughout her career as a behavioural neurobiologist, Stewart has examined the motivational effects of drugs of abuse, and with the long-term effects of various drugs on brain and behaviour. Stewart received her BA in Psychology and Biology from Queen’s University at Kingston in 1956, and went on to earn her PhD in Psychology at the University of London in 1959.

She joined Concordia University (then Sir George Williams) in 1963, served as chair of the Department of Psychology from 1969-1974, and was the founder and director of the Centre for Studies in Behavioural Neurobiology (CSBN) from 1990-1997. In 2007 she was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada.

For more about Jane Stewart, read her faculty profile, or see the recent article in The Gazette.

Posted on October 30, 2009