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Concordia in the news
Posted on February 26, 2015
University affairs
Various issues concerning Concordia University are often reported on by news outlets. Here is the most recent coverage pertaining to the institution:
- Montreal Families announces that Concordia is offering free sports activities for children at the Stinger Dome, part of the Loyola campus Sports Complex. The activities, taking place March 1, 8 and 28, include various sports clinics.
- An article in the University of Manitoba student paper The Manitoban mentions that students from Concordia participated in two days of workshops at Winnipeg-based Magellan Aerospace, earlier this month. The event was part of the Geocentrix Technologies Canadian Satellite Design Challenge.
- Le Journal de Québec reports that Dawson College has followed the lead of Concordia and McGill and transformed two men's washrooms into gender-neutral washrooms to accommodate Dawson's transgender population.
- The Montreal Gazette writes about the passing, at age 92, of Robert J. Brodrick, team doctor for the Montreal Expos from 1969 to 1994, and mentions that he was inducted into the Concordia Sports Hall of Fame.
- A Marketwired release reports that Marianna Simeone, a former member of Concordia's Board of Governors, has been named to the board of Ressources Minières Radisson inc.