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• Radio Canada International (in Spanish) posts an article referencing the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies for its research on jihadist organizations and their recruitment methods. MIGS senior deputy director Kyle Matthews and assistant to the director Marie Lamensch are quoted. Lamensch was also interviewed Thursday on Radio-Canada in Quebec City, and on 98.5 FM, where she explains how women have become active participants in the recruitment of jihadists. Rythme 105,7 FM posts text based on the 98.5 FM interview. Finally, Lamensch is interviewed on Radio-Canada Toronto's L'heure de pointe, found through the link: "Femmes djihadistes: 1 djihadiste sur 5 est une femme". 
• Le Devoir writes in its weekend edition about the TETT 2016: 2nd International Symposium on Teaching about Extremism, Terror and Trauma, held last week at Concordia. The event gathered specialists on extremism and radicalization who pondered whether anti-radicalization education programs are working. Assistant professor in the Department of Education Carolina Cambre and education doctoral candidate Jihan Rabah are quoted in a sidebar article about radicalization of youth through images of violence, notably online. The above mentioned TETT symposium is referenced also in a separate piece in Le Devoir about a tendency said to be emerging in the U.K. of seeing early signs of terrorist inclination in young, even preschool-aged children.  
• A news brief in the Albany Democrat-Herald references a Concordia study 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.
• Prima, listing what it terms "the latest anti-ageing discoveries", references a recent 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. 
• An article in U of T Engineering News mentions that Concordia is a partner in the Industrial Biocatalysis Network (IBN), a research project to find new ways to produce eco-friendly plastics and chemicals.

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