Global warming yardstick. Libyan civil war. Flipped classroom.

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• A new Concordia study of global warming measurement is described in ars technica. The study, led by Damon Matthews, an associate professor in the Department of Geography, Planning and the Environment, and Martin Leduc, a post-doctoral researcher, resulted in a world map showing amounts of global warming from given amounts of greenhouse gas emission. The model helps illustrate how the earth's Equatorial regions are warming the slowest and the Arctic the fastest.
• The book Slouching Towards Sirte: NATO’s War on Libya and Africa (2012, Baraka Books), by Maximillian Forte, an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, is referenced in an article inGlobal Research, a publication of the Montreal-based Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG). A footnote to the article, which pertains in part to the 2011 Libyan civil war, states that Forte's book is the most comprehensive and well-documented study of the plight of black Libyans. 
• Campus Technology joins the media that have reported on a five-year study of the 'flipped' classroom, led by Calvin Kalman, a professor in the Department of Physics and principal of Concordia's Science College. The study aimed to improve the learning experience of physics students by putting them in a collaborative learning environment where they can engage in what is termed 'reflective writing' about what they learn from their textbooks, peers and teachers. 

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