Screening academics. "1642". PEGIDA. Walker Cultural Leader.
Concordia in the news
Posted on March 5, 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:
- A release in Rakennuslehti (in Finnish) includes Fariborz Haghighat, professor in the Department of Building, Civil, & Environmental Engineering, in a list of academics named to screen applicants for an appointment to the Aalto University School of Engineering in Helsinki.
- Huffington Post reprises an article that quotes Jordan Lebel, associate professor of marketing and director of the Executive MBA program. The article concerns the marketing of '1642', a new soft drink created by Montreal entrepreneur Bastien Poulain.
- History professor Frank Chalk, director of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights (MIGS), is quoted in an article in the Montreal Gazette about the emergence in Quebec of Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West (PEGIDA) and other groups that may be deemed right-wing and anti-Islamic.
- Bullet News Niagara writes about the involvement of studio arts professor Janet Werner in Brock University's annual visual arts event, the "Walker Cultural Leader Series".