Engineering gender gap. Noted Concordia researchers. Top ten breakthroughs. LEAP. Maximillian Forte.

The scholarly work of Concordia faculty and researchers informs and improves society on many issues that affect our daily lives. Visit the Research section to read news stories involving research at Concordia, or read the most recent items here:   

• A new study of the gender gap in the field of engineering, led by doctoral candidate Gita Ghiasi, is reported inScience Magazine and Videnskab.dk (in Danish). Ghiasi's statistical study identifies a trend where female engineers get less attention than their male counterparts despite publishing in slightly more prestigious journals. 
• Tourisme Montréal publishes a piece about scientific breakthroughs at leading research centres in the city. The sampling includes a Concordia study of how bilingualism impacts children's perception of others, co-authored by assistant professor in the Department of Psychology Krista Byers-Heinlein and psychology undergraduate student Bianca Garcia. Also included is a Concordia/UCLA study of how watching sex films may enhance sexual responsiveness in men. The Concordia researcher involved is Jim Pfaus, a professor in the Department of Psychology and researcher in the Center for Studies in Behavioral Neurobiology (CSBN) at Concordia.
• While he was not mentioned by name, Vincent Martin cracked CTV's top-ten list of scientific breakthroughs of 2015 for his co-authorship of a study of genetically modified yeast that can be used to synthesize opiate drugs.  The piece links to an earlier CTVnews.ca article on the Concordia/UCLA research.
• Art & Multimedia Design writes about the Laboratoire de l'étude de l'architecture potentielle (LEAP), a team of 10 researchers from four universities in Montreal, including Carmela Cucuzzella, an assistant professor in the Department of Design and Computation Arts, and Cynthia Hammond, an associate professor in and chair of the Department of Art History. LEAP concerns itself with research into architecture and the built environment. Cucuzzella, holder of a Concordia Research Chair in Integrated Design, Ecology, And Sustainability (IDEAS) and Hammond are pictured.
• 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 a footnote to an article pertaining in part to the 2011 Libyan civil war. The article, picked up by numerous publications in recent days, now also appears in Pan-African News Wire.

 More Researchers in the news