Cirque goes Broadway. Runner's statement. Genocide studies. Little pink pill.

Concordia faculty and researchers are regularly asked to offer expert, informed opinions on many of today's most pressing problems. Read some of the latest news items about Concordians:

• The Wall Street Journal quotes Patrick Leroux, associate professor in the Department of English and the Département d'Études Françaises and founding director of the Montreal Working Group on Cirque/Circus, in an article about plans by Cirque du Soleil to open "Paramour", a show designed specifically for Broadway.
• Chantal Maillé, professor at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute, is interviewed on Radio-Canada's "Boulevard du Pacifique" program, where she comments the stir in social and other media over the decision by Kiran Gandhi to run the recent London marathon while menstruating, without a tampon. Listen to the interview.
• CBC.ca quotes Kyle Matthews, senior deputy director of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS) in an article about efforts to have the Quebec education ministry make genocide studies compulsory in all high schools in the province. Matthews is pictured alongside Heidi Berger, creator of The Foundation for the Compulsory Study of Genocide in Schools. The article is reprised by Yahoo! News.
• Jim Pfaus, professor in the Department of Psychology, is quoted in an article in LaPresse+ about Addyi, the "little pink pill" designed to boost sexual desire in women. 

 More Expert Commentators