December 9, 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:

• Matt Soar, professor in the Department of Communication Studies, appeared on CBC Radio’s All in a Weekend on Saturday, December 7 to discuss the Montreal Signs Project.
  
  
• La Presse publishes an article about how to be a successful investor, which quotes Lawrence Kryzanowski, professor in the Department of Finance.
  
  
• The death of Nelson Mandela made headlines around the world. Kyle Matthews, Senior Deputy Director of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS), was interviewed on the subject by media outlets including CTV News Montreal at noon (December 6), CBC News Montreal at 11 p.m. from December 5 (appearance begins at 2 minutes and 30 seconds). Sympatico’s The Loop reprises the video of Matthews’s appearance on CTV’s Canada AM from Friday.
  
  
• The Montreal Gazette publishes an article about the documentary film Paris is Burning, which was screened at the J.A. DeSève Cinema to coincide with a book launch of Paris is Burning: A Queer Film Classic, which was edited by Thomas Waugh, professor in the Department of Cinema.
  
  
• The Leader-Post reprises an article that was originally published in The Montreal Gazette about the rising value of the cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, and the founding of the Bitcoin Embassy in Montreal. Jeremy Clark, professor in Concordia’s Institute for Information Systems Engineering, is quoted in the article. 

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