Women and engineering. Argentine cinema. Movie house blues. CEO prizes.

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:

• As Montrealers and Canadians prepare to mark the upcoming anniversary of the Polytechnique massacre, Nadia Bhuiyan, a professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering and associate director of the Concordia Institute for Aerospace and Design Innovation (CIADI), shares her perspective for a piece in the Montreal Gazette that seeks to understand why engineering schools continue to have difficulty attracting female candidates. 
• Martin Lebebvre, a professor in the Department of Film Studies and director of the ARTHEMIS program, is referenced in a piece by the St. Francis Xavier University news service announcing the launch of the book Sujetos, espacios y temporalidades en el cine argentino reciente. A veinte años del NCA (Subjects, spaces and temporalities in the recent Argentine cinema. Twenty years after the NCA), co-authored by numerous academics. 
• Film studies professor Thomas Waugh is quoted in an article in La Presse + that analyzes the decline of both general and repertory movie theatres in Montreal. 
• Michel Magnan, an accountancy professor in the John Molson School of Business, is listed among the jurors for the Les Affaires CEO prizes for 2015, announced in a Marketwired release.

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