April 22, 2014
Concordia in the news
Posted on December 9, 2013
Expert commentators
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 Montreal Gazette, in both its hard copy and online, previews the 60th Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, co-organized by Norman Ingram, professor in the Department of History, and a colleague at UQAM. The conference takes place April 24 through 27 at UQAM and focuses on the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War under the theme of War and Peace in French History. The Gazette story is promoted on the front page of the newspaper along with a photograph featured in the NOW newsletter coverage of the conference.
- Judith Patterson, professor in the Department of Geography, Planning and Environment, was interviewed on CJAD this morning (no link available) about the causes of landslides such as the ones that occurred recently in the Laurentians. Patterson was also appeared live-in studio during the 6 p.m. newscast on CTV.
- The Montreal Gazette publishes an article about Heartbleed, a coding flaw that put almost all of the internet’s users at some degree of risk of a privacy breach and quotes Jeremy Clark, professor in Concordia’s Institute for Information Systems Engineering. The story is reprised by The Calgary Herald and The Province. Clark is also quoted in Business Insider in an article about a Bitcoin study that was released by Aston University in Birmingham, England.
- Matthew Anderson, a lecturer in the Department of Theology, was on CBC All in A Weekend discussing religious pilgrimages.
- La Presse features an article about the French translation of the book, April Fool’s Day (Poisson d’avril), which was written by Josip Novakovich, professor in the Department of English. Novakovich’s book is also mentioned on the Radio-Canada program, Plus on est de fous, plus on lit!
- Global News Montreal features a story about Quebec’s sovereignty movement and quotes Harold Chorney, professor in the Department of Political Science.