Sleep lab grant. Creativity culture. Health through friendship.
Concordia in the news
Posted on January 28, 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:
- Health News Network picks up a Concordia news story about a $250,000 grant from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation to help build a sleep lab at the PERFORM Centre. The lab will be used to further sleep disorder studies by Thien Thanh Dang-Vu, assistant professor of clinical imaging.
- A study into cultural influences on creativity, conducted by marketing professor Gad Saad, Concordia graduate student Louis Ho and Mark Cleveland from the University of Western Ontario, is featured in articles by Les Affaires, AMEQ en ligne, phys.org, Science Codex, Machines Like Us, The New Indian Express, Business Standard, Vancouver Desi and eScience News.
- International Business Times is the latest to write about Concordia research into the benefits for a person's health of cultivating a wide circle of friends. The research, led by psychology assistant professor Jean-Philippe Gouin, is published inThe Annals of Behavioral Medicine.