Online jihadists. Focus on Boko Haram. Downtown revitalization. Invisible minorities. Native government.

Concordia faculty and researchers are regularly asked to offer expert, informed opinions on many of today's most pressing problems. Read some of the latest news items about Concordians:

• Numerous media pick up a Canadian Press/Presse Canadienne story about efforts by Kyle Matthews, senior deputy director of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS), to alert governments and public opinion to the use of the internet, particularly social media, by extremist organizations like ISIS, bent on recruiting among Canadian and other Western youths: CTVnews.ca, Huffington Post, Montreal Gazette, Montreal Gazette e-edition, 24News.ca, CHEKnews.ca, 680news.com, Investor Central, Le Devoir, LaPresse.ca, La Presse +, Radio-Canada.ca, Journal Métro, 985fm.ca, fm93.com.
• Frank Chalk, history professor and director of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS), is quoted in an article in La Presse + about courts in Spain opening legal proceedings against the jihadist group Boko Haram over its violent attacks on civilian populations in Nigeria.
• Robert Soroka, instructor at the Centre for Continuing Education, is quoted in an article in La Presse + about the revitalization of Montreal's downtown core.
• South Asia Mail reprises an earlier article that quotes political science lecturer Bruce Hicks about the under-representation of visible minorities in Canadian politics.
• Karl Hele, associate professor and director of the First Peoples Studies Program (FPST) writes an opinion piece in the Sault Star about the historic imposition of western-style government on the Garden River First Nation, in Ontario.
• Radio Canada International posts a text story about the latest musical work of rapper and Concordia instructor Yassin Alsalman, aka "NARCY". Alsalman teaches the Fine Arts special topics course "Hip Hop: Past/Present/Future".

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