November 20, 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:

• WERS 889 FM, a Boston radio station, interviews Graham Dodds, professor in the Department of Political Science, for a segment about John F. Kennedy’s lasting legacy in light of the 50^th anniversary of his assassination. Dodds appears at 4 minutes. He also comments on JFK in two separate articles in Correio Braziliense, a Portuguese-language publication: The first article deals with the assassination and the second looks at the similarities between President Barack Obama and JFK. 
  
  
• Genviève Rail, Principal of the Simone de Beauvoir Institute, appeared on Radio Canada’s Les voies du retour to compare feminism in Quebec versus other Canadian provinces.
  
  
• Marketing Magazine carries an article published by the Canadian Press 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.

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