Milieux. Disability Studies Group. Belle de Jour III. Comfy cozy marketing. Exercise for your brain. Bilingual toddlers. CRIEM partnership.

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• Nation Talk and Noodls pick up a release about Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology at Concordia, which launched yesterday. President Alan Shepard and vice-president, Research and Graduate Studies, Graham Carr are quoted.
• A press release on the work being done by Owen Chapman, associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies, and his fellow researchers at Concordia's Critical Disability Studies Working Group is picked up by Science Daily and reprised by HeathBee, Daily Headline Updates, sci24, News Report Station,Regular News Updates, WN.com and Bioportfolio.
• Photography associate professor Marisa Portolese is interviewed on CBC Montreal radio's 'Cinq a Six' about the new exhibition of her work at the FOFA Gallery, titled "Belle de jour III: Dialogues with Notman’s Portraits of Women", on now through April 8th. 
• Psychology Today references a study by Zeynep Arsel, associate professor of marketing in the John Molson School of Business, in an article that examines how some retail businesses do their best to appear comfortable and "homey". 
• The Advertiser News and The Township Journal pick up coverage of a 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, such as climbing stairs.
• Content Standard references 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 (CRDH).
• A release from the City of Montreal announces a partnership with the Centre de recherches interdisciplinaires en études montréalaises (CRIEM) on the city's Je fais mtl community development program. The release lists Concordia among the universities where researchers in numerous disciplines are partnered with the CRIEM. The release is picked up by Le Lézard.

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