Classroom tech. Studying customer reviews. Saskatchewan pilgrimage. Talk about sensation. Hidden history. Costly global warming.

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• L'Atelier writes about a study from Concordia researchers Robert Bernard, Eugene Borokhovski and Richard Schmid that examines the benefits of using technology for post-secondary instruction. 
• Circle ID reports on a study led by Benjamin Fung, former associate professor at the Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering, and alumni Simon Li and Kamrun Nahar into how companies can use online customer reviews to gauge new products.
• The Prairie Post writes about a pilgrimage along Saskatchewan's North West Mounted Police Trail, co-organized by Concordia lecturer Matthew Anderson, who studies pilgrimages and teaches the subject in the Department of Theological Studies.
• The Miami Student, a student paper at Miami University, announces that David Howes, professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, will deliver a talk at the university in Oxford Ohio, this Thursday, to discuss his work on the human experience of sensation.
• The Montreal Gazette updates a story it first published in September 2013 about the legacy of Mackay Centre founder Thomas Widd. It mentions a multimedia project launched by history professor Ronald Rudin to uncover lost stories from Montreal's history, like that of Widd at the Mackay Centre.
• LaPresse.ca mentions the research of Damon Matthews, Associate Professor and Concordia University Research Chair (Climate Science and Sustainability) in the Department of Geography Planning and Environment. The article focuses on a report by the international bank Citigroup on the costs of failing to take action against global warming. It states that Matthews' research on carbon budgets is mentioned throughout the Citigroup report. Matthews' carbon budget concept was published in 2009 in the journal Nature.

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