CFL hopefuls. Défi Est-Ouest. Hockey injury court award. Yiara. World Keffiyeh Day. Comfort cookbook. All grown up.
Concordia in the news
Posted on May 12, 2016
Students
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:
- Concordia Stingers football player Roman Grozman is featured in the Calgary Herald and Calgary Sun following his selection by the Calgary Stampeders in the fourth round of yesterday's CFL draft. Grozman's pick by the Stampeders is mentioned also in the online edition of the Calgary Sports Examiner.
- Le Journal de Montréal and TVASports.ca report that Concordia Stingers football player Sam Narkaj tied with Université Laval Rouge et Or player Jean-Simon Roy in the bench press competition at the Défi Est-Ouest. The Défi Est-Ouest all-star game takes place this Saturday at 1 pm at Percival Molson Memorial Stadium.
- CBC.ca reports that the Quebec Court of Appeal has upheld a recent court award of $8-million to Concordia political science student Andrew Zaccardo, who was left a quadriplegic following an illegal body-check during a minor league hockey game.
- Girl Talk HQ writes about Yiara Magazine: a Concordia student-run magazine featuring feminist visual art and written works by undergraduate students in Montreal. Yiara editor-in-chief Amelia Wong-Mersereau is quoted. The article includes a photo gallery and a link to a news story about Yiara in the The Link (March 28, 2016).
- Muslim Girl writes about "World Keffiyeh Day", an initiative to sensitize the public to the situation in the Palestinian territories. It notes that World Keffiyeh Day, which was observed yesterday, May 11, was initiated by Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights at Concordia. The article is reprised by Huffington Post.
- While he is not named in the article, a study led by Ashkan Ebadi (PhD Information Systems Engineering '14, MA Computer Science '16) is referenced in an article in World University Rankings. The authors of the study, which initially formed the basis for Ebadi's doctoral thesis, is titled “How to boost scientific production? A statistical analysis of research funding and other influencing factors”. The study claims that as researchers get older, the quality of their academic publications drops.
- John Molson School of Business students Matteo Agostinelli and Mathew Foulidis, co-authors of the recipe book,La cuisine de ma grand-mère italienne, are profiled in Le Journal de Montréal. The article closes with two recipes.
- Computer Science student Hugo Cornellier, who made news last Fall with his life-long project to chronicle the ageing process by taking a daily laptop selfie, is featured in Australia's Business Insider. The piece includes a time-lapse video of Cornellier as he grows from a 12-year old boy into a 20-year old man.