Student mental health. Understanding orgasms. Corporate change. Heart-disease markers. Gaeilge spoken here.

Concordia faculty and researchers are regularly asked to offer expert, informed opinions on many of today's most pressing problems. Read some of the latest news items about Concordians:

• Please note: Concordia director of Couselling and Development Howard Magonet will be on CJAD's Tommy Schnurmacher Show, tomorrow morning at 10:30, to participate in a panel discussion of mental health. Magonet will talk about particular mental health issues facing students and the campus resources available to them.
• Jim Pfaus, professor in the Department of Psychology, appeared in last Friday's episode of 'Sexplora', a six-part series on Radio Canada's ICI Explora channel. In the episode, focusing on orgasms, Pfaus describes his work with lab rats, whose sexual drives he submits are similar to those of humans. Please note: while the entire episode is not yet on the show's web page, the program will be re-broadcast this Wednesday evening at 11:30.
• James Conklin, assistant professor in the Department of Applied Human Sciences, writes a piece in The Globe and Mail about resistance to change in the corporate world. The piece is reprised by 24news.ca.
• Simon Bacon, professor in the Department of Exercise Science and spokesperson for the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada is quoted in a piece in Canadian Living about recent research from Columbia University into heart-disease risk factors.
• Siobhán Ní Mhaolagáin, visiting scholar at the School of Canadian Irish Studies, is featured in a piece in the January 30 edition of Global's 'Focus on Montreal' about the resurgence of the Irish language — Gaeilge — in Ireland and around the world, including in Montreal. Ní Mhaolagáin's segment is found toward the bottom of the show page.

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