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• Jim Pfaus, professor in the Department of Psychology and researcher with the Center for Studies in Behavioral Neurobiology, appears in the Thursday, November 6 episode of the CBC’s The Nature of Things. The episode, titled “Decoding Desire”, explores how sexual desire and the experience of pleasure itself may be central to species survival. The Pfaus segment begins at the 27-minute mark of the episode.  A review of “Decoding Desire” was published in the Globe and Mail. The reviewer refers to Pfaus simply as “a research chap at Concordia University”.
  
  
• The Times Literary Supplement reviews A Voice Still Heard: Selected Essays of Irving Howe, edited by Nina Howe, professor in the Department of Early Childhood Education and researcher with the Centre for Research in Human Development.
  
  
• The work of Ted Rutland, professor in the Department of Geography, Planning, and Environment is mentioned in an article in Sudbury Media Co-op about plans to revitalize Sudbury’s downtown core. Rutland talks about his research focusing on the role of race in urban planning. The article also appears in Before It's News.

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