What does the future look like? Child obesity.
Concordia in the news
Posted on June 22, 2016
Researchers in the news
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- A Noodls release announces '2167', a project involving the Indigenous Futures research cluster at Concordia's Milieux, where six Indigenous filmmakers and artists have been invited to create virtual reality projects where they imagine Indigenous Peoples 150 years into the future. Design and computation arts professor Jason Edward Lewis and artist and alumna Skawennati Fragnito, respectively director and coordinator of Indigenous Futures, are quoted. The released is picked up by Nation Talk.
- Parent Herald looks at research into positive parenting and cites a 2015 study led by Lisa Kakinami, assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics and researcher with the PERFORM Centre. Kakinami's work showed how parenting style and poverty can both be important predictors of childhood obesity.