Babies and emotions. Mobile media in school. The Oldest Game. Seniors and social media. Accounting class. NIQUIST. U de S partnership.

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• TVAnouvelles.ca and Canoe pick up a QMI story about research led by recent PhD graduate in clinical psychology Sabrina Chiarella into how children pick up emotional markers from adults. The study demonstrated how infants can detect whether a person’s emotions are justifiable in a given context. Health Medicine Network picks up a Concordia news release on the research, and Noodls links back to the Concordia piece.
• Radio Canada International posts a text story (in Spanish) on research into how mobile media can be used to foster education engagement among youths in urban environments. The research, described in the book Youth Practices in Digital Arts and New Media (Palgrave 2015) is led by Juan Carlos Castro, assistant professor in the Department of Art Education. David Pariser, professor and chair in the Department of Art Education, and alumnus Martin Lalonde are affiliated researchers on the project. The article includes an audio file (with Spanish interpreter) of Martin Lalonde commenting the study. Read more about the research project.
• Sandra Gabriele, associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies, is interviewed on Radio NL-Kamloops (scroll down the show page to the sixth link) about the work of a team led by Gabriele and Lisa Lynch, associate professor of journalism, on the web-based game The Oldest Game. The game, whose developers plan to put online in the fall, seeks to explain and de-stigmatize sex work, notably in the context of Bill C-36, now law, amending Canadian legislation related to prostitution. 
• The Concordia-led Act Project provides an audio link to an interview of Shannon Hebblethwaite, associate professor in the Department of Applied Human Sciences, on CBC Homerun. Hebblethwaite discusses her research into the rise in seniors’ use of social media.
• Finweek writes about research by Emilio Boulianne, professor in the Department of Accountancy and director of the CPA Research Center in Accountability, into the use of accounting software in accounting courses. Boulianne's study tends to demonstrate that the use of such software maximizes knowledge acquisition. The article is reprised by Engineering News and Tech Smart. 
• A Bulletins-Electroniques release from the French Embassy in Canada reports that Concordia is a partner in the New Initiative for Quantum Information Science and Technology (NIQUIST), which is receiving infrastructure funding from the Quebec government and the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI). NIQUIST aims to foster collaborative research.
• A news release from the Université de Sherbrooke mentions Concordia among its partners in unnamed civil engineering research projects.

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