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• Véronique Pepin, associate professor of exercise science in the Faculty of Arts and Science, is featured in Le Devoir for the research she is leading into the benefits of exercise for patients with chronic pulmonary diseases.
• Concordia's PERFORM Centre is featured in the Montreal Gazette. The focus is on PERFORM Centre interim scientific director Habib Benali and his research into the long-range effects of exercise on the brain, and on Shannon Hebblethwaite, professor of applied human sciences in the Faculty of Arts and Science and director of Concordia’s new engAGE Centre for Research on Aging. Hebblethwaite's work on intergenerational relationships is referenced. Hebblethwaite and Benali are pictured.
• 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, was interviewed in studio for CTV Montreal News at Six, on Saturday. Matthews discussed the latest research he has led into human contribution to global warming.
• L'Express reports on the launch of Narratives Unfolding: National Art Histories in an Unfinished World (McGill-Queen’s University Press), eidted by Martha Langford (pictured), art history professor and research chair in and director of the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art. The reporter notes that Langford was director of the recent symposium in Paris, 'Dans un monde de l’art globalisé, que devient la nation?'.
• The Ukrainian Weekly, writing about the recent annual meeting of the Oral History Association (OHA) in Minneapolis, references the research work of the Center for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (COHDS) at Concordia. It mentions that COHDS founding member, history professor Steven High, participated in the event, which the reporter notes will be held at Concordia next year.
• Concordia's Centre for Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence (CENPARMI) is referenced in a CNW/Telbec news release announcing that the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) will be held in Montreal in October, 2021. CENPARMI is listed among Montreal's biggest draws for leading expertise in artificial intelligence and information technology. The release is picked up by Markets Insider, Le Lézard and Spoke.
• Lynda Clarke, professor in and interim chair of the Department of Religions and Cultures in the Faculty of Ats and Science, is quoted and her 2013 study of the Niqab in Canada referenced in an article in Turkey's TRT World about Quebec's Bill 62 provisions against face coverings in Quebec's public services.
• Morning Star picks up a news release on a joint statement by organizations across Canada calling on governments at all levels to act against what the organizations deem unjust criminalization of HIV. It quotes humanities doctoral student and Concordia Public Scholar Alex McClelland and references McClelland's thesis research on the criminalization of HIV, notably in cases of HIV-non-disclosure. 

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