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• La Presse + published a series of articles in its Sunday edition, titled Les Explorateurs Technos, about ongoing research at Concordia: Jouer à se réinventer explores Milieux’s Technoculture Arts and Games (TAG) research cluster, quoting studio arts associate professor and Milieux interim co-director Lynn Hughes and describing several of the games that have come from TAG; Revendications territoriales... dans le cyberespace looks at the work being done at the Indigenous Futures research cluster through the Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace (AbTec) and mentions Design and Computation Arts professor Jason Edward Lewis and alumna Skawennati (BFA, 1992), respectively director and coordinator of Indigenous Futures; Une robe selon l'humeur examines the work of design and computation arts associate professor Joanna Berzowska and Concordia's design and research studio, XS Labs, of which Berzowska is research director. Several photographs accompanying these stories can be viewed via the La Presse+ application available on smart tablets.
• CanIndia.com joins the numerous media that have covered the release of new Concordia research according to which computer antivirus software may actually increase cybersecurity risks. The study was led by Mohammad Mannan, assistant professor in the Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering, and PhD student Xavier de Carné de Carnavalet. Mannan was interviewed live on KCBS Radio in San Fransisco, on Saturday (no link available).
• Le Devoir publishes a story about a two-day conference titled, Les territoires du vieillissement. Dialogues interdisciplinaires et regards transatlantiques. Patrick Marier, professor in the Department of Political Science and Concordia Research Chair in Aging and Public Policy, is listed among the organizers of the event, also being presented as part of Acfas. Marier is quoted. 
• Tatyana Koreshkova, associate professor in the Department of Economics and research fellow at the Centre interuniversitaire de recherche en économie, co-authors an article in OUP Blog about a collaborative demographic study of the elderly population of the United States. 
• Bits of Science paraphrases Damon Matthews from an earlier article in Science (2013) about the beneficial impact of immediate reductions in carbon dioxide emissions.
• Before It's News links to earlier coverage of a study by researchers, including Simon Bacon, professor in the Department of Exercise Science, of how regular, moderate exercise can significantly reduce asthma symptoms.

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