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Concordia in the news
Posted on January 23, 2015
Researchers in the news
The scholarly work of Concordia faculty and researchers informs and improves society on many issues that affect our daily lives. Visit the Research section to read news stories involving research at Concordia, or read the most recent items here:
- Concordia research into the benefits for a person's health of cultivating a wide circle of friends continues to garner media coverage. Articles about the study, led by psychology assistant professor Jean-Philippe Gouin and published in The Annals of Behavioral Medicine, are picked up by the New York Daily News, The Atlantic, CTVnews.ca, Metro News, Mtl Blog, Canoe,Malaysian Digest and Hindustan Times.
- A Canada Foundation for Innovation press release, published by Market Wired, on major funding for research being conducted at universities across Canada includes a mention of the study by Thien Thanh Dang-Vu, assistant professor of clinical imaging, on the brain activity of insomniacs. The release is picked up by the Globe Advisor, Virtualization Conference and Expo, Le Lézard, and Finanz Nachrichten. Dang-Vu's study is being conducted at Concordia's Centre for Advanced Research in Sleep Medicine.
- Vivek Venkatesh, associate dean of Academic Programs and Development at the School of Graduate Studies and associate professor of education, appears on camera in a Radio Canada news report on the possible termination of the federal government's Kanishka program. Kanishka is an initiative supporting research on counterterrorism that provided funding for development by Venkatesh and his team of a web portal designed to sensitize Canadian youth to the dangers of hate speech.
- Concordia research into how ambient scents in retail stores help calm shoppers is mentioned in an article on MSN.com. The study from the JMSB's Laboratory for Sensory Research was co-authored by marketing professor Bianca Grohmann and MA Marketing graduate Tina Poon. It was published in the American Journal of Business.