Biohackers. Failed Katrina lessons. Apocalyptic world view. Marche de la dignité.
Concordia in the news
Posted on October 7, 2015
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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:
- Before It's News reprises a CBC.ca story quoting Vincent Martin, professor in the Department of Biology and Canada Research Chair in Microbial Genomics and Engineering, for a story about a home science kit marketed by a company called Synbiota. The kit could help people make their own genetically modified organisms. Martin talks about what he says is the low level of risk from such a DIY enterprise.
- L'Express de Toronto picks up an interview from Agence Science-Presse in which Rosemary Reilly, associate professor in the Department of Applied Human Sciences and director of Concordia's Human Systems Intervention (HSI) masters program, reflects on the failure to learn from the 2005 Hurricane Katrina disaster in New Orleans.
- Lorenzo DiTommaso, professor in the Department of Religion, is quoted in an article in Live Science about the popularity of doomsday prophesies. The article embeds a link to another Live Science article published in May, 2011, in which DiTommaso discusses what he termed the "apocalyptic worldview". The latest piece is reprised by Yahoo! News and Rocket News.
- A release in Mille Bâbords includes Geneviève Rail, principal at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute, among the supporters of "Marche de la dignité et contre le racisme", an anti-racism march taking place in Paris, October 31st.