Sustainable housing. Ageing (with) animals. Smoking bans. Back-breaking tax bill. Disability performance. Niqabs. Monster algebra. Insomnia markers.

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• The Montreal Gazette publishes an article about sustainable housing development in Montreal. It is part of the Montreal Reimagined series of five stories focusing on the work of researchers at Concordia. The series is produced on behalf of Concordia in partnership with the newspaper. Today's installment features the work of Pierre Gauthier, associate professor in the Department of Geography, Planning and Environment and Ted Rutland, assistant professor in the same department. This article can also be read as a pdf. All the stories in this special feature can be found here. 
• The McGill Daily publishes an article about Ted Rutland's research work on condo conversion, mentioned in the item above and provides a link to a story about Rutland's work that appeared in The Link in January, 2014.  
• The Concordia-led Act Project announces a brainstorming day, dubbed "Ageing (with) animals", on Saturday, April 4th, on the SGW campus from 10 am to 3 pm. The release states that an exact location for the event will be announced at a later date and provides an e-mail address for Constance Carrier-Lafontaine, part-time instructor in the Department of Communication Studies.
• L'Alimentation reprises an earlier story about Concordia research into whether bans on public smoking help smokers quit. The research team includes Sylvia Kairouz, associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, who is quoted. The study was published in the journal Nicotine & Tobacco Research.
• Live Science writes about the work of doctoral candidate and lecturer in the Department of Religion, Brice Jones. It mentions that Jones is deciphering and publishing several ancient and medieval texts at McGill University Library and Archives. The article includes a link to a separate Live Science article about Jones deciphering an ancient Egyptian tax receipt, which is reprised by The Cairo Post.
• The university publication McGill Reporter publishes an interview with Arseli Dokumaci and mentions that she completed postdoctoral research at the Mobile Media Lab, where she still works as a research associate, focusing on the intersections of disability and performance.
• Lynda Clarke, associate professor in the Department of Religion, is quoted in an article in TheStar.com about a report she wrote for the Canadian Council of Muslim Women on why many Muslim women wear a niqab. The article is reprisedNorthumberland News and Singtao.ca (in Chinese).
• Free Republic reprises an earlier article that mentions the work of John Mckay, Emeritus Distinguished Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. The article relates to McKay's study of the "monster group", a huge algebraic object whose existence was the object of debate among mathematicians.
• A TVA newscast of last Friday features a story about a Concordia study, published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, that uncovers a new way of predicting which individuals are most likely to suffer from insomnia based on a particular pattern of brain waves. The study was led by Thien Thanh Dang-Vu, professor in the Department of Exercise Science, whose first appears at the one-minute-mark of the television report.

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