Social media and school. The Body Social. Memory Bizia. Oxytocin.

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• Canada Standard, India Online News, The Hans India, The Economic Times of India and the Bangalore Mirror join the media reporting on Concordia research by Juan Carlos Castro, assistant professor in the Department of Art Education and alumnus Martin Lalonde about how social media may be used to help keep at-risk youth in school. The study is outlined in the researchers' book Youth Practices in Digital Arts and New Media.
• LaPresse.ca reprises an earlier article about an observed return of beards among fashion-conscious men. It quotes from the book The Body Social, by Anthony Synnott, professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. In the book, Synnott writes about how beards have fallen in and out of favour during different social movements since the 1960's.
• Euskalkultura.com (in Spanish) writes that the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (COHDS) supports the 'Memory Bizia' project, which collects and preserves stories about the Basque people.
• Bustle writes about a Concordia study of how the hormone oxytocin makes people feel more extroverted and emotionally sensitive. It provides a link to an earlier report on the study. 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.

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