Cannes-bound. Hamac with a cause. The Sleep-Over. Canada in the Americas. Jeux de la traduction. Picture perfect. La Voix de Kingston.

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:  

• Alisi Telengut, an MFA student in the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, was a guest on the CBC Radio One program 'Cinq à Six', Saturday afternoon. She talked about the selection of her short film, Nutag – Homeland, for screening at the Marché du Film, at the Festival de Cannes, in May. There is no audio link available, but highlights of the interview highlights of the interview are available here. The transcript is also linked by Canada Standard.
• Concordia design students Catherine Martial, Stéphanie Bélanger and Charlotte Krzentowski, co-founders of Hamac Urbain Design, are featured on TVA's Salut Bonjour Weekend. They explain that their idea for a socially and environmentally responsible product — a hamac made from organic cotton and recycled climbing gear began as a school project. The student entrepreneurs say they donate $2 from each hamac sale to the Dans La Rue homeless shelter.
• Humanities doctoral candidate Abelardo León appears as a guest on the Radio Canada International program 'Canadá en las Américas Café' (in Spanish)
• Concordia is listed in a Université de Moncton release among the universities that sent students to the recent 'Jeux de la Traduction', at Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières. The release mentions that Concordia will host the next 'Jeux de la Traduction', in 2017.
• The Université de Montréal student paper Quartier Libre reports that psychology undergraduate student Bowen Lu is a co-winner, with his cousin, Boyi Lu, of the first prize in the recent Concours interuniversitaire de photographie at Université de Montréal.
• The Kingston Whig-Standard reports in its online edition that creative writing student Beatrice Keeler finished in the top eight of TVA's 'La Voix'

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