Venkatesh: SOMEONE. The future of getting high.

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• Vivek Venkatesh is quoted throughout an article in La Presse + and is interviewed for Radio Canada International (RCI) about Concordia'sSOcial Media EducatiON Every day initiative — Project Someone. Theonline RCI article accompanying the interview includes a video produced for Project Someone in which Venkatesh, the project director, explains that SOMEONE draws on the expertise of research partners from across North America to develop a web portal serving those involved in promoting multiculturalism, counter-violence and prevention of extremism. 
• The Atlantic, writing about new trends in the engineering and production of recreational drugs, references a research project conducted jointly by Concordia and the University of California, Berkeley, on the use of engineered yeast to make opiates. According to the article, such yeast could potentially be used to turn household ingredients into morphine. The Concordia researcher involved, who is not named in the article, is biology professor Vincent Martin.

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