Preschool memory exercise. Green building. Games, Ethics and How We Connect. Childhood obesity. Soft computing.
Concordia in the news
Posted on January 15, 2016
Researchers in the news
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:
- La Presse + and eCannabis News join the media coverage of a study led by Caroline Fitzpatrick, a researcher at Concordia's PERFORM Centre, and Linda Pagani of Université de Montréal, describing how a memory test in preschoolers can help identify youths at risk of dropping out of school at a later age. Coverage also appears in Le Vif (Belgium), Maxi, La Dépêche and La Parisienne (France).
- La Presse Affaires reprises an earlier piece from La Presse+ about university engineering programs it says merit particular attention. It highlights research in and teaching of green building design at Concordia. Amir Asif, dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science and a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer engineering, is quoted.
- Press Reader reprises a piece from the Globe and Mail's Ontario edition about the upcoming Thinking Out Loud — Games, Ethics and How We Connect, the first of this year's conversations in Concordia's 'Thinking Out Loud' series, produced in partnership with The Globe and Mail. 'Games, Ethics and How We Connect', featuring Canada Research Chair in Game Studies and Design and video games studies professor Mia Consalvo and technology journalist Clive Thompson, takes place Thursday, January 28 at 6:30 p.m. at the D.B. Clarke Theatre.
- Cheatsheet, writing about research into how poorer people may have greater difficulty losing weight mentions a study led by Lisa Kakinami, a researcher with the PERFORM Centre and an assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. The study suggests that parenting style and poverty are both important predictors of childhood obesity.
- 4-Traders posts a brief describing a 2014 paper on soft computing, written by Ola Amayri as a requirement for completion of her PhD in the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science.