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Concordia in the news
Posted on March 10, 2016
Students
Current students at Concordia do outstanding academic work and get involved in community projects that improve our quality of life. See what they've been up to:
- A PR Newswire release announces that a team from the John Molson School of Business finished third in a field of nearly 500 teams from 30 countries at the 13th annual CME Group Trading Challenge, where participants traded a variety of products in a simulated trading environment. The strong finish sees the Concordia team awarded a cash prize and an invitation to attend a one-day market education conference at CME Group on April 15. The release is picked up by Le Lézard, Benzinga, MondoVisione, KLTV.com,WDRB.com, WFMJ.com.
- Artist Bettina Forget, a master's student in the Faculty of Fine Arts, is featured in The Globe and Mail for her project to hand draw the moon's craters that have been named for women. Forget went to work on the project after noting that of the more than 1,600 moon craters that have been named to date, only 27 honour famous women.
- Doctoral candidate Brad Had, studying time management, writes in Inside Higher Ed about finding happiness through better management of one's time.
- Erin O'Louhlin, a doctoral candidate studying health and exercise psychology and founder of Studio Barre Plus, writes an article in Wise Women Canada about the benefits of barre exercise.
- Ottawa Business Journal reports that students from Carleton University defeated a team from Concordia in quarterfinal competition to ultimately win the Network of International Business Schools Worldwide Case Competition last week at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas.
- History student Miranda Cipolla, posting to Mtl Blog, lists her twenty favourite Boulevard Saint-Laurent restaurants.