Climate change map. Memory work-out. Josip Novakovich reading.

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• Media continue to join coverage of a new Concordia study of global warming measurement, led by Damon Matthews, an associate professor in the Department of Geography, Planning and the Environment, and Martin Leduc, a post-doctoral researcher. Matthews and Leduc, who have determined that 2015 was the warmest year ever recorded, have created a world map of temperature changes caused by CO2 emissions: The Statesman, All Companies (in German), Cool Gadgets, Prothom Alo, Zee News India, Can India News, Miami Indian. Huffington Post Québec picks up an earlier Radio Canada text story the study. The research is published in Nature Climate Change.
• Several more media pick up a study led by Caroline Fitzpatrick, a researcher at Concordia's PERFORM Centre, and Linda Pagani of Université de Montréal, describing how exercising their memory when they are toddlers can help keep students in school at a later age: Parent Herald, The Egypt Independent, Malaysian Digest, Free Malaysia Today and The Malay Mail Online
• Eventful posts a release announcing a reading of his work by Josip Novakovich, a professor in the Department of English, in West Palm Beach, next Friday, January 29. The release mentions that Novakovich was a finalist for the 2013 Man Booker International Prize for fiction.

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