Remembering Richler. Primed for mortgages. New music. Scientific journalism.
Concordia in the news
Posted on January 30, 2015
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:
- Yahoo provides a video link to a CP report on concerns that the City of Montreal is slow to tangibly honour novelist, screenwriter and essayist, the late Mordecai Richler. Associate professor of English Jason Camlot appears at the 35-second mark. His segment focuses on the Mordecai Richler Reading Room, on the sixth floor of the J. W. McConnell Building. Richler was a student at Sir George Williams University and later served as its writer in residence.
- Jean Freed, part-time finance instructor at the JMSB, appears on CBC Radio's Daybreak to discuss the effect on mortgage holders of this week's drop in the Bank of Canada prime rate.
- The Montreal Gazette announces that pieces written by associate professor of music Sandeep Bhagwati will be performed on March 4, at 7pm, at the Chapelle Historique du Bon Pasteur, as part of the biennial Montreal/New Music Festival, opening on February 26. The article is reprised by The Province.
- Associate professor of journalism David Secko is quoted in an Agence Science-Presse article about the future of scientific journalism.