Mapping mass atrocity. Denouncing radicalization. Surviving cancer. Political resignation.

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:

• Kyle Matthews, senior deputy director of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS) appears in a Global Montreal news report about the Digital Mass Atrocity Prevention (DMAP) Lab. The article mentions that Matthews has launched a crowdfunding initiative for funding to send the DMAP Lab team to a conference in Germany this June to explore the issue of online hate propaganda. Matthews appears at the one-minute mark of the first of two video files on the page. The second video is a news report on efforts to track the ISIS risk on social media. News.nom, Montreal City and Press, Yahoo and Danil News  provide a link to the Global Montreal news item. Matthews was also interviewed on CBC Montreal's Daybreak this morning. 
• The Montreal Gazette publishes an opinion piece by André Gagné, associate professor in the departments of Religion and Theology, in which he calls on secular societies to denounce radicalization. 
• The news service of the MUHC announces the participation of Robert Kilgour, professor in the Department of Exercise Science, in a free lecture on "How to survive cancer? - Not beyond us." The lecture, offered jointly by the Cedars Cancer Foundation and the Goodman Cancer Research Centre, is being held this evening at 6:30 at the Montreal Neurological Institute as part of World Cancer Day. 
• Political Science instructor Bruce Hicks is interviewed for a Montreal Gazette podcast about the resignation of John Baird as Conservative MP and Foreign Affairs Minister. Hicks appears at the 1:15 mark.

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