Global temperature records. Media weight bias. Female sexual desire. Monitoring and treating breast cancer. Gold ash. Little Burgundy.

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• La Verdad (in Spanish) and Death Rattle Sports pick up news of the unveiling of the PAGES2k Global 2,000 Year Multiproxy Database — a comprehensive database of past global temperature records. Concordia is noted among the research contributors to the database and Jeannine-Marie St-Jacques, assistant professor in Concordia's Department of Geography, Planning and Environment in the Faculty of Arts and Science, is quoted. St-Jacques was also interviewed on Radio Canada International (accompanying text story with St-Jacques quotes) and on CBC Radio's 'Breakaway' in Quebec City (no link available).
• MorningStar picks up a release announcing the participation of Angela Alberga, assistant professor of exercise science in the Faculty of Arts and Science, in a conference, today from 9 am to 12:30 pm at Montreal's Centre Mont-Royal, where she and other experts will discuss their research into women's health and nutrition.
• The science journal, Nature references the work of Jim Pfaus, psychology professor in the Faculty of Arts and Science and Concordia University Research Fellow, on the effects of hormones and drugs on female sexual desire. Pfaus is quoted.
• Genome Web reports on the discovery of links between certain cells that could result in new ways to treat and monitor breast cancer. The study, published in PLOS Computational Biology, was led by Vanessa Dumeaux, a computational biology researcher at Concordia.
• Nature India describes a study, co-authored by Muthukumaran Packirisamy professor in the Concordia Institute of Aerospace Design & Innovation, of the properties of ancient gold ash and how it could be applied to therapeutic products. 
• Journal Métro runs another in a 12-part series of articles highlighting various neighbourhoods in Montreal. The new installment, featuring Little Burgundy, on the Lachine Canal, is co-written by Jean-Philippe Warren, professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, history professor Steven High and history doctoral student Fred Burrill, all within the Faculty of Arts and Science.

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