Officers of Senate

Sachin Seth, DDS, MEd is an assistant professor and Associate Dean of Academics at ÃÀÅ®×ö°® in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Sachin completed his BSc and DDS degrees at ÃÀÅ®×ö°® in 1996 and 2000 respectively.Ìý In 2011, he furthered his education by obtaining a Master of Education (MEd) from Acadia University, with a specific focus on curriculum development.

Since 2002, Dr. Seth has been engaged in both clinical and didactic teaching at ÃÀÅ®×ö°®. Throughout his 20 plus years in the faculty, he has had the privilege of teaching operative dentistry, evidence-based dentistry, patient care and communications.Ìý Notably, in 2018, he spearheaded the development of an innovative clinical teaching program in the Faculty of Dentistry. This program immerses students in an environment that mirrors private practice, fostering collaboration between dentistry and dental hygiene—a win-win for student learning and patient care.

On a national level, Sachin has collaborated extensively with the National Dental Examining Board of Canada.Ìý His contributions include standard setting, exam review, and question development for licensure exams aimed at dentists seeking licensure in Canada.

In 2020, Sachin was inducted as a Fellow into the prestigious American College of Dentists.Ìý Within the Faculty and nationally, he has received several teaching awards. Notably, the 2019 Nationwide ACFD W.W. Wood Award for Excellence in Teaching and the 2023 ÃÀÅ®×ö°® Alumni Association Faculty Award of Excellence for Teaching stand out as testament to his dedication.

Being a true Haligonian, Sachin, along with his lovely wife, is happy to call Halifax his home.Ìý In his free time, Sachin enjoys cooking and is known for his baking skills. Baking allows Sachin to combine his love of art and science – a perfect hobby for a dentist with a sweet tooth!

Dr. Pacurar joined ÃÀÅ®×ö°® in 2005 and is an associate professor in the Rowe School of Business, Faculty of Management. She has also served as the school's research co-lead and coordinator of the finance department. Dr. Pacurar has been an active member of the Senate since 2015, contributing among others on the Senate Academic Programs and Research Committee.

Dr. Pacurar completed her bachelor's in economics degree at the Babeș-Bolyai University in Romania, with a major in International Business and Economics. She received an MBA from the University of Nantes and a Ph.D. in Finance from HEC Montréal.

An award-winning instructor and researcher, Dr. Pacurar considers an institution of higher learning to be central to the collective sense of purpose that defines what our society will become—ethical, compassionate, accepting or geared towards exclusion, greed, and indifference. She teaches corporate finance, risk management for financial institutions, and Financial Technologies (FinTech) courses in the regular and the executive education programs. She has also taught at HEC Montréal, Saint Mary's University and ESFAM (AUF). She is a past winner of the A. Gordon Archibald Teaching Excellence Award, the Faculty of Management Teaching Excellence Award, and the Mercure Award for the best doctoral thesis at HEC Montréal. Dr. Pacurar has been a member of the SSHRC Insight Grant national adjudication committee for business and management for three years. She was co-chair of the 2017 Northern Finance Association (NFA) Annual Conference and was elected President of the NFA (2017-2018).

Dr. Pacurar is most passionate about fairness and justice, and she is an advocate for equal opportunities for everyone. Although she does not consider herself an activist, she has never shied away from professing an uncompromising reverence for human and civil rights. As someone who has lived in a system based on dispossession, censorship, limitation of privacy and human rights, Dr. Pacurar has acquired a genuine appreciation of a free society in which individual emancipation and freedom constitute the very foundation of the value system. She is also cognizant of the many issues that can exist in a democratic country, such as systemic racism, xenophobia, or sexism. This is one of the main reasons why, more recently, her interest in factors leading to inequalities has increased significantly.

Community-minded, Dr. Pacurar also devotes time and resources to volunteering and helping kids in need abroad, not-for-profit organizations, and her parish.

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