Aging Well. Preschooler memory. Copacabana Machine Sex.

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• The Montreal Gazette and the paper's e-edition publish the fifth installment of a week-long series of articles —Aging Well  — produced in partnership with the newspaper and Postmedia Works. Today's article, headlined "Experiencing a digital world in a later life", features the work of Kim Sawchuk, a professor in the Department of Communication Studies and the founder of the Mobile Media Lab. The piece looks at Sawchuk's work on how an ageing population adopts and adapts to technology, through the "Ageing, Communication,Technologies" (ACT) project.
• AMEQ en ligne posts a story from the Université de Montréal news service on a study by Caroline Fitzpatrick, a postdoctoral fellow at the PERFORM Centre, and Linda Pagani of Université de Montréal, showing that preschoolers who score lower on a working memory task are likely to score higher on a dropout risk scale when they reach the age of 13.
• Bill Vorn, a professor in the Department of Studio Arts, is featured in a piece Le Devoir about his latest work, Copacabana Machine Sex, being prepared for the  "Re-Create 2015" research-creation show, being hosted by Hexagram at Concordia and UQAM.  Vorn's installation involves a performance of the French cancan by five robots. The article also references the FOFA gallery, another "Re-Create 2015" participant.

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