Accessibility and respect. Anuschka Wright. Rocket science. Picture of success.

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:  

• Laurence Parent, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Humanities and a member of the Critical Disability Studies working group at Concordia, is featured in La Presse +. The article focuses on the challenges faced by handicapped people, including herself, of living in a city Parent says has a long way to go to adapt its services and urban environment to the needs of reduced-mobility citizens. 
• Bahamas Local publishes a release announcing that Faculty of Fine Arts graduating student (with honours), jazz artist Anuschka Wright, will perform at the Hilton Hotel in Nassau, Sunday, June 19. Note that Wright, who recently won the Norman Marshall Villeneuve Percussion Award for academic excellence and musicianship, will give a performance at a vernissage for a student art show at the VAV Gallery, Wednesday, June 8 at 4 p.m. Admission is free.
• The Université de Montréal student paper Quartier Libre writes that students from Concordia, among other Quebec universities, will be at the Laval Cosmodome today to show off a rocket they built, and which they will launch at an international rocketry competition in Utah, taking place June 15  to 18.
• Concordia photography student Stephen Brace is profiled in The Lewisporte Pilot.

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