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• Marguerite Mendell, professor and graduate program director in the School of Community and Public Affairs, is featured in Le Devoir. The article references Mendell's research on social economy. Mendell says government austerity is a poor response to an economic slowdown, such as Quebec and other jurisdictions around the world are experiencing. 
• LaPresse.ca writes about a recent Concordia study, led by PERFORM Centre researcher Jason Steffener, describing how ageing of the brain can be significantly slowed through continued education and simple exercise, like climbing stairs. The study is also referenced in a brief in the Daily Mail (UK) and in an article in Corriere Della Sera and Libero Quotidiano (both in Italian). Please note: Steffener will discuss his research today with Mutsumi Takahachi on CTV Montreal's noon news.
• Science Alert  and Chuansong (in Chinese) join continuing media coverage of a new study, conducted jointly by researchers at Concordia and the Quebec-based biotech company Idunn Technologies who have identified six molecules found in plants that could slow the ageing process. The study was led by biology professor Vladimir Titorenko. 
• Radio-Canada.ca reports on a Concordia study of the cognitive benefits to children of being bilingual as toddlers. The study was led by graduate student Cristina Crivello and psychology professor Diane Poulin-Dubois — both members of Concordia’s Centre for Research in Human Development.

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