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Concordia in the news
Posted on April 8, 2015

Concordia in the news features stories of Concordians who appear in the news. Discover alumni, students, faculty and experts who recently made an impact in the media.

Students

Current students at Concordia do outstanding academic work and get involved in community projects that improve our quality of life. See what they've been up to:  

  • Musique Plus announces that Concordia biology student Diandra Grandchamps will begin her tenure as the host of the specialty channel's Décompte program, this Friday at 9pm. 
  • MontrealShamrocks.com features a four-minute mini-documentary filmed by a group of Concordia students (Émilie Luneau, Fiona Buhr, Marco Lucci and Béatrice Viens Côté), who chose the Montreal Shamrocks Gaelic Football and Hurling Club as the subject of a video they shot for a school assignment, with the assistance of the Department of Communication Studies.
  • Le Reflet writes about the recent Computer Science Games 2015 at Université de Sherbrooke, and mentions that a team from Concordia finished third overall.
  • An article in the Montreal Gazette profiles the Concordia Supermileage student team participating in the Shell Eco-marathon Americas, where students from high schools, colleges and universities across North America compete to design a vehicle that can go the farthest on a single litre of gasoline. Several team members are quoted. The Shell Eco-marathon event takes place this weekend, in Detroit.