Elections and robot wars. American Apparel. Genocide studies. Israel and administrative detentions. "Detraining".

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:

• On Policy Alternatives, Fenwick McKelvey, assistant professor in the Department of Communication Studies, writes about the technology political parties use to target voters.
• Robert Soroka, marketing instructor at the Centre for Continuing Education, is interviewed on CBC's Homerun. Soroka talks about flagging sales at American Apparel and the retailer's uncertain future. Click on the Homerun show page link "Where did American Apparel go wrong?"
• Kyle Matthews, senior deputy director of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS), appeared on CJAD's Barry Morgan Show Thursday afternoon to talk about efforts to sensitize the Quebec government to the need to make genocide studies compulsory in high schools across the province.Listen to the interview.
• Yakub Halabi, a research associate at the Azrieli Institute of Israel Studies, writes an opinion piece in i24Newsin which he argues against administrative detentions in Israel, where authorities can order prisoners detained without trial. 
• Andreas Bergdahl, assistant professor in the Department of Exercise Science, is quoted in articles in The Salem News and the Gloucester Times that examine how physical inactivity, or "detraining", affects athletes.

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