Doing oral history. Bronfman fellowships. Stop-motion fest. Westmount small business. Planning advisory committee.

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:

• Canada's History posts a video of Stacey Zembrzycki, a visiting oral historian at Concordia's Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling, explaining how oral history is done.
• Lien Multimédia announces the presentation of the Claudine and Stephen Bronfman Family Foundation Fellowships in Contemporary Art to recent Concordia master's graduate Yannick Desranleau and UQAM alumnus Guillaume Adjutor Provost. Each fellowship is worth $60,500. 
• Rotoscopers writes about the Montreal Stop Motion Film Festival (MSMFF), coming this September. It notes that the festival was founded in 2009 by stop motion animation specialist Erik Goulet, an animation instructor in the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema.
• The Westmount Independent (scroll to page 9) publishes an article in which finance professor Arvind Jain finds fault with the methodology used in a recent Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) report that placed the city of Westmount last in a ranking of Quebec's 100 most populous cities according to the straightforwardness of their regulations concerning small business. 
• The book Montreal Metropolis, 1880-1930 by Walter van Nus, retired faculty member from the Department of History, is mentioned in an item about the 100th anniversary of the city’s Planning Advisory Committee featured in the Westmount Independent (beginning on page 1).

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