March 24, 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:

• La Presse publishes an interview with Micheline Lanctôt, instructor in the Department of Cinema and a filmmaker, who was this year’s laureate du Prix Jutra-Hommage. A similar story appears in Le Huffington Post Québec and Métro. La Presse publishes another article about Lanctôt. The award is also mentioned in another story in La Presse about the Jutra awards.
  
  
• Le Journal de Montréal interviews Josip Novakovich, who teaches creative writing in the Department of English, about his book Poisson d’Avril (April Fool’s Day), which was recently translated into French.
  
  
• The Montreal Gazette features a story about the change to the National Building Code of Canada, which has impacted how firewalls are constructed. The story quotes Liangzhu Wang, professor in the Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering.
  
  
• The Montreal Gazette publishes an article about the Quebec Drama Federation’s spring calendar launch and mentions Attawapiskat is No Exception by Cree playwright and Concordia writer-in-residence, Floyd Favel.
  
  
• Landscape Architecture Magazine discusses a report issued by the National Asphalt Pavement Association and quotes Hashem Akbari, professor in the Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering.
  
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• The Ottawa Citizen publishes an article about fighting obesity and quotes Jordan LeBel, professor in the Department of Marketing, who also sits on the Scientific Committee for Obesity Prevention at the Government of Quebec’s Institut national de santé publique to develop solutions to combat obesity. The article was reprised by Press Display.

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