Green buildings. Computer masters. Toddler memory. For happy macaques.

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• La Presse + writes about five university engineering programs it says merit particular attention, including research in and teaching of green building design. Amir Asif, dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science and a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer engineering, is quoted. 
• La Presse + and La Presse Affaires report on Concordia's master's program in the area of computer and information systems securitry. Mourad Debbabi, a professor in the Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering (CIISE) and associate dean of research and graduate studies in the Faculty of Engineering, is quoted. The article also features 'Maison du logiciel libre', a program inaugurated last fall that supports technology students working with open-source software. Concordia is listed among the partners in the program. 
• Coverage continues of a study led by Caroline Fitzpatrick, a researcher at Concordia's PERFORM Centre, and Linda Pagani of Université de Montréal, describing how preschoolers who score lower on a working memory task are likely to score higher on a dropout risk scale when they reach the age of 12: LaPresse.ca, Ansa (in Italian), Can India News.
• Robert Weladji, an associate professor in the Department of Biology specialized in animal behaviour, appears in a report on Télé Québec's Code Chastenay. The report features Weladji's ongoing study of the behaviour of Japanese macaques at Granby Zoo who were recently introduced to new surroundings. Weladji is first seen at the 2:25 mark.

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