Gentrification. Data Mobile. Etsy. Brain studies. Truth on fingers. Men and erotica.

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• Ted Rutland, assistant professor in the Department of Geography, Planning and Environment, is quoted in an article on the front page of the Saturday edition of Le Devoir about a resurgence of condominium conversions and construction and the gentrification of certain neighbourhoods in Montreal. The quotes of Rutland are largely from a study released in March of condo conversions in one particular district of the city's La Petite Patrie sector. A related Le Devoir article mentions that a team from Concordia assisted the Comité logement de La Petite-Patrie in collecting data about condo conversions.
• CBC.ca reports on Concordia's Transportation Research for Integrated Planning (TRIP) Lab and  the work of Zachary Patterson, assistant professor in the Department of Geography, Planning and Environment. The article mentions the 2014 release of Data Mobile, an app that captured data about travel patterns of students and staff at Concordia. The data is currently being studied at the TRIP lab.
• Jacqueline Wallace, research associate and part-time instructor in the Department of Communication Studies, is quoted in an article in Le Devoir about Etsy, the online craft marketplace, and mentions that Wallace researched Etsy for her PhD thesis in Communications.
• Academica runs a news release about a grant awarded to a multi-disciplinary research team to conduct a probe of in vivo studies of the brain and mentions the participation of Dajana Vuckovic, assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. The grant is made possible by the Quebec-based CQDM, Brain Canada and the Ontario Brain Institute (OBI). The brief links to the original release from the CQDM. 
• Times of Oman picks up an earlier story about a study of how the ratio of a man's index finger to his ring finger correlates with how good a romantic date he will be and includes an unnamed Concordia researcher among those who participated in the study. The Concordia researcher in question is Gad Saad, professor in the Department of Marketing.
• Ozy and Aeon publish separate articles about a study conducted by Jim Pfaus, professor in the Department of Psychology, and Nicole Prause, an associate research scientist in UCLA's Department of Psychiatry, that contradicts earlier claims that the more erotica men watch, the likelier they are to experience erectile problems. The study was published in The Journal of Sexual Medicine.

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