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CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE

Fall 2023

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THE GOOD LIFE

Everyone wants to live happily. Can science help?

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WOMEN WHO LEAD

Concordia rebrands Women and Leadership

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Cover story:

CLEARING THE AIR

Concordia researchers and alumni are out to improve every breath we take

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50 UNDER 50 SHAPING TOMORROW

Celebrating alumni leading the way in 2023

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NEWS BITES

First person, last word

Loyola College ‘became a refuge’

How one of Concordia’s founding institutions forever changed two Boston boys
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In good company

Covered in success

Learn about four alumni who play key roles at Sun Life
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Student Work

She understands Blue Mountain

Marion Munday is the 2022-23 winner of the Department of English Creative Writing Award in Fiction
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Alumni Spotlight

Filmmaker Karen Cho talks Big Fight in Little Chinatown

Cinema grad’s doc chronicles ‘recurring pattern of active erasure’
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Alumni Spotlight

'It’s gratifying to write jokes for ‘the funniest man on TV’

Emmy Award-winning writer and producer Barry Julien helps lead The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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Alumni Spotlight

Director Sophie Dupuis wins Best Canadian Feature Film at TIFF

Solo explores the world of drag through 'universal themes of love, intimacy, and healing'
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Campaign for Concordia

$2 million from Behaviour Interactive to spur innovation for Quebec’s video game industry

Major support will enable university’s Faculty of Fine Arts to develop new talent and drive discovery for a key economic sector
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Campaign for Concordia

$2 million from Joyce Family Foundation bolsters students from rural areas of Quebec and Canada

Major gift to the Campaign for Concordia: Next-Gen Now endows new bursary program
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Campaign for Concordia

Grad turned donor aims to impact her community of Kahnawake

Melissa Montour was inspired to pay it forward and establish her own bursary for Indigenous single parents
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Campaign for Concordia

Academic trailblazer encourages next generation of Indigenous engineers

‘You continue in your life by learning as well as by teaching,’ says M.N.Srikanta Swamy
Editor’s note
Alumni updates
Kudos
Words & music
In memoriam
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