September 26, 2013
Concordia in the news
Posted on September 26, 2013
Expert commentators
Concordia faculty and researchers are regularly asked to offer expert, informed opinions on many of today's most pressing problems. Read some of the latest news items about Concordians:
- David Secko, professor in the Department of Journalism, and Trudy Lieberman, president of the Association of Health Care Journalists in the U.S., appeared on CTV News Montreal at noon yesterday with Mutsumi Takahashi to discuss the problems with health journalism. Secko also appeared this morning on the Global Morning show (no link currently available), at approximately 8:10 a.m., for their career advice segment. He spoke with Richard Dagenais about how to pursue a career as a science journalist or health reporter.
- The public radio station for southern Colorado, KRCC, featured Darren Wershler, professor in the Department of English, to discuss how we understand language.
- As a sponsor of the CBC Literary Prizes, Air Canada’s enRoute is featuring the works of Canada’s leading established and up-and-coming writers in their September, October and April issues. Among the writers featured is David McGimpsey, who teaches creative writing in the Department of English and whose latest book, Li’l Bastard, was nominated for a Governor General’s Literary Award and listed as one of the best poetry books of 2011 by the National Post.
- Le Devoir publishes an op-ed written by the Collective des feminists musulmanes du Québec about the proposed Charter of Values. The piece was signed by a number of Concordia doctoral students as well as Monika Kin Gagnon, professor and interim chair of the Department of Communication Studies, and Kim Sawchuk, professor in the Department of Communication Studies.
- Global Montreal features an article on their website about Jonathan Lemieux, a Concordia alumnus, about how he lived for three years mostly on food sold in Dollarama and he has now put together a cookbook of his recipes. The article quotes Théa Demmers, who runs the healthy cooking program at Concordia University’s PERFORM Centre.
- Micheline Lanctôt, instructor in the Department of Cinema, will be the first ambassador for the Cinéma Excentris: Québec Spot Média.