January 20, 2014

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 New York Times publishes a letter written by Kyle Matthews, deputy director of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, about Bill 60. Matthews also published a blog post about Raoul Wallenberg,Sweden’s diplomatic envoy in Budapest at the height of the Holocaust who disappeared as the Soviet Union swept into Hungary: Global News.
  
  
• The Montreal Gazette profiles Gabor Szilasi, professor emeritus in the Department of Studio Arts, about his career as a photographer. The article does not mention that Szilasi was a faculty member at Concordia.
  
  
• The Institute of Museum and Library Services issued a press release that announced the nine projects that were winners of the third Digging into Data Challenge, which included Concordia team from the Media History Research Centre (MHRC), in partnership with researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who won more than $200,000 in the competition. Although the press release does not mention it, Alan Bale, professor in the Department of Classics, Modern Languages and Linguistics, and Maria Polinsky, a colleague from Harvard University, were awarded a grant for their COULD Project:  Web RTC.
  
  
• Heavy features an article about whether or not it is offensive for a non-Muslim woman to wear a hijab to raise awareness and support Muslim women. The article mentions Nora Jaffary, Chair of the Department of History, who is currently wearing a hijab in protest of Bill 60.

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