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• The Montreal Gazette’s publishes the first in the Montreal Reimagined series, focusing on the work of researchers at Concordia. This story features research by Damon Matthews, associate professor in the Department of Geography, Planning and Environment and Concordia Research Chair, Climate Science and Sustainability; Pragasen Pillay, professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and NSERC/Hydro- Québec Senior Industrial Research Chair; Tarek Zayed, associate professor in the Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering; and Hashem Akbari, professor in the Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering. The series will run for the next 10 weeks. Note: today's article features links down the right-hand side to five other Concordia stories.
• Futura Santé writes about research at Concordia into how E. coli cells may lead to a better understanding of how pathogens work. The researchers involved are post-doctoral fellow Ziad El-Hajj and professor emeritus of biology Elaine Newman. The study was published in the Journal of Bacteriology. 
• An article in Architects Journal about environmental sustainability in architecture mentions a paper by Carmela Cucuzzella, assistant professor in the Department of Design and Computation Arts. The paper, on environmental assessment in architectural design, was presented at last year's International Conference on Competitions in Delft, Holland.
• An article in Biba Magazine mentions Concordia research into how personality traits in men correlated with their finger lengths. The research was led by marketing professor Gad Saad.

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