#MTLroadwork. Pilgrimage to Kahnawake. Environment controls. Honoré Beaugrand. Hydro Quebec research investment. Medication costs. Testosterone test.

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• The Montreal Gazette announces #MTLroadwork — a journalism project involving Concordia professors and reporters at the Gazette. The collaborative pilot project will focus on roadwork-related problems in Montreal, with Concordia professors to provide material generated by their research touching on different aspects of roadwork.
• The Montreal Gazette publishes a first article in the #MTLroadwork series (reprised by 24 365 News), where the reporter and Concordia's Pierre Gauthier, associate professor of urban planning in the Department of Geography, Planning and Environment in the Faculty of Arts and Science, examine ongoing and planned road infrastructure projects. At the end of the article, the paper refers its readers to Concordia infrastructure-related academic projects led by Pierre Gauthier and Mazdak Nik-Bakht, assistant professor in the Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering.
• The CBC Montreal Radio program, 'Tapestry' documents a pilgrimage by a group of Concordia students who walked 36 kilometers from Old Montreal to the Mohawk territory of Kahnawake. The walk was part of the Theology 234 summer course ('Pilgrim Bodies, Sacred Journeys') in Concordia's Department of Theological Studies. The program segment, heard here, includes clips from interviews with numerous pilgrimage recipients.
• Numerous media outlets join coverage of a new study from Concordia that presents a method of 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): Daily Mail, Canada Journal, The Suburban, Le Réseau d'Information Municipale du Québec (behind a paywall), Before It's News, Tech 2, The New Indian Express, Express Digest, The Tribune (India), Times of India e-edition, The Hindu.
• Jean-Philippe Warren, professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology in the Faculty of Arts and Science, was the featured guest on the MAtv program, 'Figures Marquantes de Notre Histoire', (no link available) where he discussed his book, Honoré Beaugrand: la plume et l’épée (Boréal).
• Academica and The Future Economy link to an earlier Montreal Gazette article reporting Concordia is receiving a $3.9-million gift 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, held by Mourad Debbabi, professor in the Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering (CIISE). 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. The Hydro gift is also reported by Electrical Business Mag, which quotes professors Debbabi, Pillay and Athienitis and includes a video clip of the three academics, who describe their research. 
• An editorial in La Tribune about the cost of prescription medication in Quebec references a new study co-authored by researchers at Concordia, Université de Montréal, Carleton and University of British Columbia bearing on the cost of Quebec's drug-insurance plan. The study was recently published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
• Genuss Maenner (in German) references a 2009 Concordia study that monitored changes in measurable 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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