November 18, 2013

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:

• The Canadian Press published an article about Krispy Kernels snack food, the makers of Yum Yum chips, re-introducing its logo of a cartoon aboriginal boy as part of a holiday campaign. The article quotes Harold Simpkins, professor in the Department of Marketing. The story is carried by over 30 media outlets, including: The National Post, The Globe and Mail, The Montreal Gazette, Global News, Metro, The Vancouver Sun, The Ottawa Citizen, The Edmonton Journal, The Calgary Herald, The Winnipeg Free Press, The Star Phoenix, The Windsor Star, The Province, The Times Colonist, The Record, The Chronicle Herald, CJAD, The Huffington Post Canada Business, Yahoo! Canada News, Canadian Grocer, The St. Paul Journal, The Courier Islander, AM 1150, The Daily Courier, Brandon Sun, Dawson Creek Daily News, The Prince George Citizen, The Coast Reporter, Nanaimo Daily News, Medicine Hat News and The New Glasgow News.
  
  
• This week will mark 50 years since the assassination of John F. Kennedy and Le Devoir features a story about JFK’s enduring legacy and quotes Graham Dodds, professor in the Department of Political Science.
  
  
• Le Devoir interviews Marguerite Mendell, director of the Karl Polyani Institute of Political Economy and vice-principal of the School of Community and Public Affairs, about receiving the Prix du Québec. Mendell also appeared on RDI Économie on Friday, November 15 to discuss her award.
  
  
• The Toronto Star published an article about the culture of rudeness and quotes Anthony Synnott, professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology.
  
  
• The Ottawa Citizen reprises an article originally published in The Gazette on Friday, November 14 about Montreal’s history of brothels that quotes Karen Herland, lecturer in the Simone de Beauvoir Institute.

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