Social sciences/humanities research funding. Your brain on stairs. Women from prison. Slave-trade. The 1%. Inventory of moons.

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• The Montreal Gazette reports yesterday's announcement of a $9.3-million federal funding package in support of research work by 97 Concordia faculty members and graduate students. The funding, being provided through the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), was announced yesterday at Concordia by Minister of Science, Kirsty Duncan. It's part of a more-than-$265-million funding program covering over 3,300 social sciences and humanities research projects across Canada. The CNWnews release announcing the funding program is picked up by Nation Talk, Business Insider, Spoke, AMEQ en ligne (behind a paywall) and Profit Quotes. 
• Net Doctor references the 2016 Concordia study, led by PERFORM Centre researcher Jason Steffener, that shows how simple physical activity such as taking the stairs can significantly slow the rate of ageing of the brain. The study findings were published in Neurobiology of Aging.
• CBC (text) reports that Darla Fortune, assistant professor of applied human sciences in the Faculty of Arts and Science, will speak at an event in Waterloo, today, about women in prison. Fortune will share her 10 years of research into social inclusion and exclusion and her work with female prison inmates. 
• The book, Slouching Towards Sirte: NATO's War on Libya and Africa (Baraka Books, 2012), by Maximillian Forte, associate professor of anthropology in the Faculty of Arts and Science, is referenced and quoted in an article in Zero Hedge (reprised by Long Room and SMI Online) bearing on the reported slave-trade in Libya. 
• Le Devoir, examining reported revenue increases among Canada's wealthiest, references a 2016 study led by Michael Carney, professor in the Department of Management, and Robert Nason, assistant professor in the same department in the John Molson School of Business, of the fortunes and lifestyles of the wealthiest "one percent" in the United States. 
• Richmond Times-Dispatch critiques Sarah Nance: an inventory of moons, a show of the work of interdisciplinary artist Safrah Nance, assistant professor in the Department of Studio Arts, on now through December 2 in Richmond, Virginia.

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