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Girls Will Be Girls. Rooftop pollution. Oxytocin extroversion.

Concordia in the news
Posted on March 11, 2015

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  • Emer O'Toole is interviewed on Radio Gorgeous about the launch of her new book, Girls Will Be Girls - Dressing Up, Playing Parts and Daring to Act Differently.
  • Construction Links provides a link to the results of a study led by Ted Stathopoulos, professor in the Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Ali Bahloul, researcher at the Institut de recherche Robert-Sauvé en santé et en sécurité du travail. The study focuses on pollutant dispersion from rooftop stacks. 
  • Health AIM provides a link to an article in Medical News Today about a Concordia study of how the hormone oxytocin makes people feel more extroverted. The research, published in the journal Psychopharmacology, was led by psychology associate professor Mark Ellenbogen and psychology graduate student Christopher Cardoso. Both are members of the Centre for Research in Human Development.