Smart buildings. Love and desire. First Nations schooling.

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• The Montreal Gazette presents "Montreal's bright future", part of the Montreal Reimagined series of five stories focusing on the work of researchers at Concordia. Today's installment features the work of Andreas Athienitis, professor in the Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering, on developing energy-efficient "smart" buildings. Athienitis is the Concordia Research Chair in Integration of Solar Energy Systems into Buildings. The Montreal Reimagined series will run for the next 10 weeks. Note: the article features links down the right-hand side to other Concordia stories.
• An article in The Good Men Project about love and lust mentions research by psychology professor Jim Pfaus into how love and sexual desire activate different but related areas of the brain. The article includes a link to a story about the Pfaus research that was published in Health Day, in June 2012.
• Nation Talk reprises an earlier article about a recent conference on academic perseverance among First Nations people. The article mentions research on that topic by Natasha Blanchet-Cohen, assistant professor in the Department of Applied Human Sciences. Blanchet-Cohen is quoted throughout. 

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