PUSH for social innovation. Advancing humanity. Underworld power struggle. Indictment of zoos. Sustainable financial management.

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:

• Marguerite Mendell, writing in Huffington Post Quebec about meeting the challenges of social, economic and environmental innovation, references the PUSH fund, established by the Concordia Student Union to help finance new cooperative student housing.
• Lieutenant-General (retired) Roméo Dallaire, a senior fellow at the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS) at Concordia, is featured in an article from the University of Calgary news service. The piece focuses on Dallaire's address at the 2016 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, ending today in Calgary. Dallaire spoke of advancing humanity by fostering education, fighting poverty and empowering women. 
• Marcel Danis, a professor in the Department of Political Science who teaches about organized crime, is quoted in a piece in Vice News about the continuing power struggle among organized crime factions in Montreal. 
• Eleni Panagiotarakou, a lecturer in the Department of Political Science and the Department of Philosophy, writes an opinion piece in the South China Morning Post in which she indicts the tradition of zoos in the killing of the Cincinnati zoo gorilla, Harambe.
• Thomas Walker, associate professor in and interim director of the David O'Brien Centre for Sustainable Enterprise (DOCSE) is referenced in a news release in About Money that describes a Concordia MBA class on Sustainable Financial Management. 

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