Tyrrell on the hustings. Skating gold. Women and war. Show for Syrians. Student housing. Mulcair challenged. Trading challenge. Gaeilge quiz.

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:  

• Several media pick up a Presse Canadienne report that Quebec Green Party leader Alex Tyrrell, a part-time student in environmental science at Concordia, is running under his party's banner in the Quebec by-election in the riding of Chicoutimi, in the Saguenay: LaPresse.ca, Le Devoir, Journal Métro, FM93.com, L'Étoile du Lac.
• Journal Métro reports that Concordia art student Emile Baz, who is autistic, won the men's figure skating gold medal at the Special Olympics Canada in Corner Brook, Newfoundland, earlier this month.
• The Times of India writes about the participation of Concordia doctoral candidate and non-violence activist Afra Jalabi at last week's World Sufi Forum, in New Delhi, where she spoke about her work as an advocate for women trapped by war in her native Syria and elsewhere.
• TVA Nouvelles.ca reports that the Concordia Dabke Group participated in a benefit show at Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf last Friday to benefit Syrian refugee children. Dabke is a Levantine Arab folk circle dance.
• CBC.ca posts an article about the establishment by the Unité de travail pour l’implantation de lodgement étudiant of the PUSH Fund, supporting the construction of student housing. It concerns the investment by the Concordia Student Union of $1.85-million for the fund's first major student housing project. The piece is reprised by Yahoo! News, Canada Standard and My Informs and Kollectif publishes an excerpt from a recent CNW release announcing the PUSH fund investment.
• The Toronto Star and its e-edition, reporting that the NDP's Quebec caucus plans to back Thomas Mulcair at an NDP leadership review in Edmonton next month, says that the NDP's Concordia and McGill campus organizations are aligned against Mulcair. 
• The Carnegie Mellon student paper The Tartan picks up a recent report that a team from the John Molson School of Business finished third at the 13th annual CME Group Trading Challenge. 
• Foreign Affairs (New Zealand) reports that a group of students from Concordia participated in a Saint Patrick's Day Gaeilge language quiz, via Skype, competing against teams from Ireland and from across Canada and the United States.

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