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• Milieux Institute for Art, Culture and Technology at Concordia is featured in The Globe and Mail. The professors and researchers mentioned in the piece include studio arts professor Bill Vorn, material practices professor Barbara Layne, communication studies assistant professor Tagny Duff, photography professor Raymonde April, studio arts associate professor  and Milieux interim co-director Lynn Hughes and assistant professor of English Darren Wershler. The piece is reprised in 24news.ca, Tech Investor News, News United, Globe Advisor, My Web Memo and Scoopnest.
• CBC.ca, writing about creators of video games that feature indigenous-inspired adventures, presents a brief description of Skins, a series of lessons and workshops taught by Concordia computation arts graduates, students and faculty who create video games based on indigenous mythology and teachings. The initiative originated inMilieux’s Indigenous Futures research cluster, led by Design and Computation Arts professor Jason Lewis.
• Tell Me Boss reports on a 2014 study by Mia Consalvo, professor in the Department of Communication Studies and co-director of Milieux’s Technoculture Arts and Games (TAG) research cluster, and fellow Kelly Boudreau, showing that online social network games help strengthen family bonds.
• Le Devoir runs an article featuring Xavier Ottenwaelder, associate professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and his team at Concordia, the Xavier Ottenwaelder Research Group (XoRG). Research at XoRG is focused on oxydation chemistry and how some chemical reactions occurring in nature could be reproduced to create environmentally-friendly products, including certain solvents.
• Science 2.0 joins media coverage of new Concordia research that describes how better social support for families with a child living on the autism spectrum will yield better health results for parents by reducing the stress related to constant care giving. The study, published in Family Relations, was led by Jean-Philippe Gouin, assistant professor in the Department of Psychology, and Erin T. Barker, assistant professor in the same department.
• Journal Le Guide picks up an earlier article reporting that Concordia, which it notes entered into a research partnership with Granby Zoo in 2014, is collaborating with the Zoo on a conservation project in Cameroon, through the Fondation pour l'Environnement et le Développement au Cameroun (FEDEC). The partnership between Concordia and the Zoo was initiated as part of a research project led by Robert Weladji, associate professor in the Department of Biology.
• Spa Business picks 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.
• 24News.ca reprises an earlier news brief from The Globe and Mail about a study of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), co-authored by Harjeet Bhabra, professor in the Department of Finance and associate dean of research of the John Molson School of Business. The study looks at the salaries and other compensation of executives in urban and rural SMEs.
• Pamper (Malaysia)  joins continuing coverage of a Concordia study of the effectiveness of iPads and other tablet computers as adaptive devices for people with vision loss. The study's lead authors, psychology professor Aaron Johnson and MA student Elliott Morrice, conclude that such devices may also reduce the stigma that some older visually-impaired adults feel when using more traditional reading rehabilitation tools.

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