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Concordia in the news
Posted on June 29, 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:
- Oil Gas Daily and Enerzine reprise a Concordia news release about a study of models to help the US Department of Defense gage its fuel requirements and costs. The lead Concordia researcher is Ketra Schmitt, assistant professor in the Centre for Engineering and Society. The paper is published in the journal Public Budgeting & Finance.
- An article in L'Hebdo Journal about a soundwalk created by the Centre d’histoire de l’industrie papetière in Trois-Rivières mentions that the project was inspired by soundwalks at Concordia, among certain others. Read about a Concordia soundwalk project, the "Journées Sonores, canal de Lachine," led by Andra McCartney, associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies.
- LaPresse.ca, writing about the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal's involvement in art therapy and the work of the Grands Ballets canadiens in the area of dance therapy, mentions that Concordia and its PERFORM Centre collaborated on a research project that studied the effect of dance on the wellbeing of sedentary seniors. It mentions also a research project in the Department of Art Therapy that studies how art can be beneficial in suicide prevention. Finally, the article states that in 1982, Concordia became the first university in Canada to offer a Master's program in art therapy.