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Nuclear Pakistan. The internet of things. Perceptions of AIDS. Bad place names.

Concordia in the news
Posted on December 1, 2015

Concordia in the news features stories of Concordians who appear in the news. Discover alumni, students, faculty and experts who recently made an impact in the media.

Expert commentators

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:

  • The Gulf Time (United Arab Emirates) reprises a piece authored by Julian Schofield, an associate professor in the Department of Political Science, about limiting Pakistan's nuclear program.
  • The McGill Tribune writes that Fenwick McKelvey, assistant professor in the Department of Communication Studies, participated in a recent panel discussion at McGill on privacy and governance issues involving the internet. McKelvey is quoted.
  • Matthew Hays, lecturer in the Department of Cinema and the Department of Communication Studies, writes a piece in Queerty about how the death of actor Rock Hudson changed the public perception of AIDS.
  • Ted Rutland, an assistant professor in the Department of Geography, Planning and the Environment, is quoted in an article in the National Post, reprised from the paper's online edition, about demands from academics that black scholars be given a central role in re-naming numerous locations in the province whose names are being dropped because they contain the racist n-word, offensive to members of the black community. The story is also reprised by Press Reader.