Plant structure. Infrastructure X ray. High-tech catwalk. Accounting class software.

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• The University of Washington news service and Science Newsline report that Jin Suk Lee, assistant professor in the Department of Biology, was a co-author of a study, published in Nature, of how plants organize their cellular structures. The article notes that Lee did the research work as a University of Washington postdoctoral fellow.
• Heavy Equipment Guide writes about Concordia research that uses electromagnetic waves to inspect bridges for structural soundness. The ground-penetrating radar technology was adapted by a team led by Tarek Zayed, associate professor in the department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering. Zayed is quoted.
• A Business Wire news release about the upcoming FashionWare runway show at New York's CE Week reports that Valérie Lamontagne, part-time instructor in the Department of Design and Computation Arts, will be among the featured designers with pieces on the catwalk. The article mentions Lamontagne's Concordia research work on “Performative Wearables: Bodies, Fashion and Technology”. The release is picked up by Digital Journal.
• HR future reprises an earlier story about research by Emilio Boulianne, professor in the Department of Accountancy and director of the CPA Research Center in Accountability, into the use of certain software in accounting courses. Boulianne's study focuses on the use of such software to maximize knowledge acquisition. 

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