Heroes, Business, Language, Botswana
Concordia in the news
Posted on October 29, 2014
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:
- Kyle Matthews, senior deputy director of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS), is quoted in an article in the Montreal Gazette about the current quest for heroes. Matthews discusses Raoul Wallenberg, the subject of a panel discussion held today.
- Peter Jaskiewicz, professor in the Department of Management and CIBC Distinguished Professor of Family Business, is quoted in an article in Maclean's about the history of the Eaton family business, the subject of a newly published book.
- Allanah Fitzgerald, a doctoral candidate in education technology, is part of the team that has won the Linked Vici Competition for FLAX, a software program that allows teachers to create a variety of practice exercises from “real” language texts and multimedia available in digital libraries: Scoop, Yahoo! News Zealand.
- An opinion piece about the political situation in Botswana written by Amy Poteete, professor in the Department of Political Science, and published recently in The Washington Post, is cited in Yahoo! Canada, Free Malaysia Today, Eyewitness News, Yahoo! New Zealand, Euronews.