Opiates recipe. The pay's the thing. District 3.
Concordia in the news
Posted on May 21, 2015
Researchers in the news
The scholarly work of Concordia faculty and researchers informs and improves society on many issues that affect our daily lives. Visit the Research section to read news stories involving research at Concordia, or read the most recent items here:
- Media continue to report on the Concordia/Berkeley study co-authored by Vincent Martin, professor in the Department of Biology, on the creation of genetically modified yeast that can be used to make opiate drugs: Ealing Times, Media Awareness Project, Focus.it (in Italian),Uproxx, Beacon News, New England Public Radio, Health Canal, Texarkana Gazette, Domain-b, Northern Californian, The Drinks Business, New Scientist, British Broadcasting Corporation, Ghana Broadcasting Corporation, Good Magazine, Popular Science, Gizmodo UK and dozens of others, in addition to the more-than-300 news outlets that have carried the story since Monday.
- An article in the Journal de Montréal about the relative importance of salary in making career and employment choices mentions a joint JMSB/UQAM study from 2011 that pointed to a greater risk of emotional fatigue among people who give great importance to salary.
- An article in the Montreal Gazette about the factors that make Canada an important player in the world economy includes a picture of a group discussion at Concordia's District 3 Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, a technology business incubator. The caption mentions several people, including District 3 founder Xavier-Henri Hervé.