Date rape nail polish, stop ISIS and more

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:

• CTV National interviews Jennifer Drummond, coordinator in the Sexual Assault Resource Centre, about a new nail polish that detects date rape drugs.
  
  
• The Montreal Gazette, in both its hard copy and online, publishes an op-ed written by Kyle Matthews, senior deputy director of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, that addresses the fact that ISIS needs to be stopped immediately. The Province reprises the op-ed.
  
  
• A media advisory announces that a press conference will be held on the conservative government’s Bill C36 on prostitution laws in Canada. Viviane Namaste, professor in the Simone de Beauvoir Institute, will speak during the press conference: Digital Journal, CNW Telbec and Le Lézard.
  
  
• Claude Lessard, président du Conseil supérieur de l'éducation, announced the appointment of 10 members in the five committees of the board, including Elhadji Mbaye, a post-doctoral researcher at Concordia who will be on the Commission de l'enseignement et de la recherche universitaire: Le Lézard.
  
  
• Academica Top 10 reprises an op-ed that was originally published in The Montreal Gazette by Paul Allen, professor in the Department of Theology, about how universities should be creating broad thinkers, not just subject experts. The Vancouver Sun also republishes the op-ed.

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