Indigenous Futures. Women in gaming. Quiet revolution. High-flying stock options. Problem gambling. Maccabiah Games tryouts.

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:

•  La Presse + publishes an opinion piece by Design and Computation Arts professor Jason Edward Lewis and alumna Skawennati (BFA, 1992), respectively director and coordinator of the Indigenous Futures research cluster at Milieux. 
• A brief in the Montreal Gazette announced last Thursday's round table on women in gaming hosted by Milieux’s Technoculture, Art & Games (TAG) research cluster. The participants included Mia Consalvo, Canada Research Chair in Game Studies and Design and professor in the Department of Communication Studies, Gina Haraszti, creative director of TAG, and Lynn Hughes, Concordia University Research C-hair in Interactive Design and Games Innovation and co-director of TAG.
• Jean-Philippe Warren writes an opinion piece published in La Presse + and Le Devoir where he explains the origins and use of the term "Révolution tranquille/Quiet Revolution" to describe Quebec society and politics following the election of the Jean Lesage government, in June, 1960. 
• LaPresse quotes Michel Magnan, accountancy professor and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Chair in Corporate Governance, in an article that examines the practice at Bombardier of giving stock options to senior company executives. 
• A brief published by the Université de Montréal news service profiling Université de Montréal doctoral student Christelle Luce, studying the evolution of gambling addiction, notes that Sylvia Kairouz, associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, is Luce's thesis so-supervisor.
• The Canadian Jewish News, writing about upcoming regional tryouts for the Maccabiah Games taking place in Israel in July, 2017, includes Concordia wrestling coach Dave Zilberman and former Concordia Stingers basketball coach John Dore among the participants in the conference, this Wednesday at the Gelber Conference Centre, announcing the Montreal tryouts.

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