Genocidal ISIS. Francophone immigration. Vocal sex. Senior university salaries. Neuroscience symposium. Charlotte Salomon. Writing for children.

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:

• Kyle Matthews, senior deputy director of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS) at Concordia is quoted in an article in The Guardian about the vote in the US House of Representatives to label atrocities committed by the Islamic State "genocide". Observers, including Matthews, have stated that the vote will increase pressure on the Obama Administration to step up the fight against ISIS.
• Chedly Belkhodja, principal of and professor in the School of Community and Public Affairs (SCPA),writes an opinion piece in Acadie Nouvelle in which he calls on French-speakers in Canada to re-think and contemporize certain notions they may have about immigration, particularly with respect to the position and survival of the French language.  
• Psychology professor Jim Pfaus is quoted in a piece in The Debrief (UK) about "noisy sex". Pfaus explains that, in heterosexual couples, women are far likelier than men to vocalize during sexual encounters.
• Michel Magnan, management professor and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Chair in Corporate Governance, is quoted in an article in La Presse + about the recent stir in the Quebec media concerning the salaries, bonuses and other payments to university presidents in the province. The same article notes that former Concordia presidents Judith Woodsworth and Claude Lajeunesse received payments totalling $1.7-million upon departing the university.
• UdeM Nouvelles, writing about the 'Symposium international du Groupe de recherche sur le système nerveux central' (GRSNC), at Université de Montréal May 2nd and 3rd, includes Peter Shizgal, professor in the Department of Psychology, among the organizers of the neuroscience symposium. 
• A brief in Press People (in Galician) announces that Ariela Freedman, associate professor in the Liberal Arts College, will give a talk today at the University of Vigo, in Spain, about the work of artist Charlotte Salomon, who painted only a few years, until 1943, when she was killed at Auschwitz concentration camp, at the age of 26.
• A brief appears in The Suburban announcing that Suzanne Reisler Litwin, an instructor in the School of Extended Learning, will give a writing class this spring – Writing for Children 1, CEJN 118. It invites registrations at www.concordia.ca.

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