PUSH for student housing. Easter Rising. Cross-Canada Shabbat. Top souvlaki. Trading challenge.
Concordia in the news
Posted on March 22, 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:
- Academica posts a link to an earlier CBC.ca story reporting 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.
- Global Atlanta publishes a piece by Concordia doctoral candidate Mike Rast (Irish history) about Ireland's 1916 Easter Rising against British rule.
- Chabad.org mentions Concordia among universities that were represented at a Shabbat gathering of Jewish university students from across the country, last weekend in Ottawa.
- Concordia history student and food blogger Miranda Cipolla lists her ten favourite Montreal souvlaki spots on Mtl Blog.
- NJ.com joins the media reporting on the recent CME Group Trading Challenge, where a team from the John Molson School of Business finished third among nearly 500 teams from 30 countries in a competition where participants traded a variety of products in a simulated trading environment.