New aerospace chair. The CIADI. Knowing when to quit. Present and sick. Overweight children.

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• TVA Nouvelles writes about  the establishment of a new $4.4-million Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Chair in Aerospace Design Engineering (NCADE) at Concordia. Catharine Marsden, an associate professor in the Department of Engineering and Computer Science has been appointed senior chair holder and Yong Zeng, a professor in the Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering (CIISE) will be the NCADE co-chair. The NCADE aims to develop innovative aerospace design engineering curriculum, teaching and learning strategies. AMEQ en ligne picks up the Concordia releaseannouncing the chair.
• LaPresse.ca reprises an earlier piece from La Presse Plus written by Nadia Bhuiyan, a professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, and Sylvain Cofsky, executive director of the Green Aviation Research and Development Network (GARDN). The piece focuses on Concordia's Institute of Aerospace Design and Innovation (CIADI) and its participation in the world aeronautics forum of the International Civil Aviation Organization, November 23 to 25, in Montreal. 
• Carsten Wrosch, a professor in the Department of Psychology and a member of the Centre for Research on Human Development, is referenced in an article in Talent Management for his paper, co-authored with Gregory Miller of the University of British Columbia, about the psychological effects of pushing oneself to reach an unattainable goal. 
• The Toronto Sun joins the continuing media coverage of a study of the workplace phenomenon of presenteeism, by management professor Gary Johns and University of East Anglia academic Mariella Miraglia. Johns and Miraglia examine the factors that spur people to report for work when they are sick.
• Youth Health is the latest to report 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 parenting style is an important predictor of childhood obesity. The study was published in Preventive Medicine.

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