Hydro gift for Concordia research. Cancer patients fighting back. Environmental control. Drug plan cost. Harsh environment. CO2 culprits. Testing for testosterone.

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• The Montreal Gazette (reprised by Canada.com and 24 365 News) reports that Concordia is receiving a $3.9-million from Hydro Quebec to support research into sustainable energy and smart-grid security. Part of the money is being put into the Concordia University Hydro-Québec Thales Senior Industrial Research Chair in Smart Grid Security. The chair is held by Mourad Debbabi, professor in the Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering (CIISE). Debabbi is quoted. The gift will also support the NSERC/Hydro-Québec Senior Industrial Research Chair in Design and Performance of Small Electrical Machines, held by electrical and computer engineering professor Pragasen Pillay, and the NSERC/Hydro-Québec Senior Industrial Research Chair in Optimized Operation and Energy Efficiency, held by building engineering professor Andreas Athienitis. Finally, one-third of the new money from Hydro Quebec will go to supporting 68 merit-based student scholarships over the next five years for undergraduate and graduate students in the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science, the Faculty of Arts and Science and the John Molson School of Business. The gift is announced also in a CNW release, picked up by Electrical Industry Canada, PR Newswire and Benzinga.
• Andrée Castonguay, a postdoctoral researcher in Concordia’s Faculty of Arts and Science, is featured in the Los Angeles Times, where she talks about a recent study where she describes how cancer patients can be inspired to action by seemingly negative emotions like anxiety, anger, guilt and distress. Castonguay co-authored the study, published in the journal Health Psychology, with Concordia psychology professor Carsten Wrosch and University of Toronto kinesiology professor Catherine Sabiston.
• Science Daily joins coverage of a new study from Concordia that offers a method of optimizing employee productivity by automating indoor workplace environmental conditions, including temperature, air quality and lighting. The study, published in the Journal of Energy and Buildings, was led by Hashem Akbari, professor in the Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering, in collaboration with recent building engineering graduate Farhad Mofidi (PhD '17).
• La Presse, L'actualité and Journal Métro pick up a story from La Presse Canadienne describing a new study co-authored by researchers at Concordia, Université de Montréal, Carleton and University of British Columbia, of the cost of Quebec's drug-insurance plan and whether the Quebec system should be a model for Canada. The study was recently published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
• The Memorial University Gazette, reporting on the establishment, at the university in St. John's of the Harsh Environment Research Facility (HERF), writes that the HERF team includes Concordia researchers. The multidisciplinary team focuses on the study of cold ocean environments.
• Dawn, writing about the climate crisis, references the research of Damon Matthews, professor and Concordia University Research Chair in Climate Science and Sustainability in the Department of Geography, Planning and Environment in the Faculty of Arts and Science, into the contributions of different countries to overall CO2 emissions.
• Press Relations (in German) references a 2009 Concordia study that measured changes in testosterone levels among men who were asked to drive a Porsche 911 Carrera around a racetrack. The study was led by Gad Saad, marketing professor in the John Molson School of Business.

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