Grimposium conference. IT development for business. Bats in decline.

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• Vivek Venkatesh, associate professor in the Department of Education, was interviewed on Global morning news and on  the CTV Noon News yesterday about Grimposium, the ongoing conference on extreme metal music being held in association with the Heavy Montreal festival. Grimposium goes on until tomorrow at Concordia. Venkatesh created the event to further his academic research on the metal music genre.
• A release from the communications service of Université du Québec announces that Anne-Marie Croteau, professor of business technology management and an associate dean at the JMSB, is a participant in an IT development research project involving small and medium-sized businesses in the manufacturing sector. The release includes a picture of Croteau.
• Biology professor Jean-Philippe Lessard's study of the decline of North American bat populations is featured in a news release in Press-News, Health Medicine Network, Phys Org and AMEQ en ligne (behind a paywall). The focus is on joint research led by Lessard and University of Tennessee graduate student Noa Davidai. Their team's research paper was published recently in the journal Biological Conservation.

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