Aircraft vortex math. Internal clock reset. Linguistic minorities. After Life.

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• Jaunted provides a brief, along with a link to an earlier report, about a Concordia study that presents a method of calculating an aircraft's wing-tip airflow. The research, led by Georgios Vatistas, professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, could help reduce waiting periods between takeoffs by decreasing safe-takeoff distance between large planes. Vatistas partnered with Concordia Master of Applied Science (MASc) students Fani Maniki and Georgios Panagiotakakos for the study, whose publication is forthcoming in the Journal of Aircraft.
• Psychology professor Shimon Amir is interviewed on Superhuman Radio about joint research from Concordia and McGill into the body's circadian rhythm and how our internal clock can be adjusted. Amir is the lead author of the study, published in the journal Nature Neuroscience. His interview segment begins at the 1:01 mark (roughly two-thirds of the way into the audio file).
• A Marketwired release from the federal government's Department of Canadian Heritage announces funding for the Canadian Institute for Research on Linguistic Minorities and its work on the Quebec English-Speaking Communities Research Network project (QUESCREN), partnered with Concordia's School of Extended Learning. The release is picked up by Digital Journal, Le Lézard, Spoke and Finanznachrichten.
• The visual arts research group After Life, directed by studio arts professor Raymonde April, is mentioned in an article in L'Éveil about the work of artists Mariette Rousseau-Vermette and Claude Vermette.

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