La Tohu: success. Working sick. Childhood obesity. Greener flying with the CIADI.

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• TVA Nouvelles and Baron post a story about a recent study by Marguerite Mendell, vice-principal of and a professor in the School of Community and Public Affairs (SCPA), and Wilfredo Angulo Baudin of UQAM. The study,  "L’insertion sociale des jeunes à l’emploi. Le cas de la TOHU à Montréal", published in September, examines the social and economic impact on the surrounding area of the TOHU, a creative and performance centre for the circus arts in Montreal's Saint-Michel neighbourhood. Mendell is quoted.
• Media coverage continues of a study examining the workplace phenomenon of presenteeism, by Gary Johns, professor of management in the John Molson School of Business, and University of East Anglia academic Mariella Miraglia, listed as the lead author of the study. The paper, recently published in the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, looks at the factors that drive people to report for work when they are sick:Metro UK, Health Canal.
• Psychology Today joins the media reporting on new research led by Lisa Kakinami, a researcher with the PERFORM Centre and an assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, suggesting that poverty and parenting style are important predictors of childhood health. The study, published in Preventive Medicine, finds that the children of authoritarian parents tend toward obesity.
• La Presse + points to Concordia's Institute of Aerospace Design and Innovation (CIADI) as a prime example of cooperation between universities and players in the aerospace industry. The article states that the CIADI favours partnerships with the industry by bringing together aerospace academics and researchers from different university departments. It also mentions that the CIADI will participate in the world aeronautics forum of the International Civil Aviation Organization, November 23 to 25, in Montreal. 

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