Income affects weightloss and SSHRC funding annoucenment

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• Jezebel reprises a story that originally appeared in The Atlantic on research conducted by Lisa Kakinami, a member of the PERFORM Centre and a professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. Kakinami's study found that those who struggle the most financially are less likely to constructively battle the bulge through exercise, drinking water or reducing fat or sweets compared to those in the highest income bracket. The research also appears in iStreet Research, iTWire, Digital Journal and WebProNews.
  
  
• The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) issues a media advisory that at 10 a.m. today it will announce a significant investment in the funding of a new multi-sector partnerships and support for research training in fields of social sciences and humanities. Among those present for the announcement is William Reimer, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology: Market Wired and Le Lézard.

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