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Distilling binge drinking. Lusting after lingerie. The Violin Lesson.

Concordia in the news
Posted on December 12, 2014

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  • The Ottawa Citizen, 640 Toronto and Indian Express post reports about a study conducted at Concordia, in collaboration with Université de Montréal and University of Massachusetts, that finds that teenagers who regularly consume alcohol are likelier to be binge drinkers in later life. The Concordia researcher is Erin O'Loughlin, a doctoral candidate in exercise science. O'Loughlin also discussed the study yesterday afternoon on two radio shows: CJAD's Barry Morgan Show and Live Drive on Toronto's Newstalk 1010.
  • The Daily Mail (UK) and Top Santé join the host of media reporting on the research of psychology professor Jim Pfaus, doctoral candidate Gonzalo Quintana Zunino and others into why men become excited by women in lingerie.
  • Canadian Art mentions a performance piece called The Violin Lesson, co-created by studio arts instructor Lorraine Oades, which premiered in English this summer at the Hexagram Black Box.