Homa Hoodfar. Sounding out leaky pipes. Alan Shepard: second term. Cameroon conservation. Mediation studies. Département des Plantes. Jarislowski Foundation.

Various issues concerning Concordia University are often reported on by news outlets. Here is the most recent coverage pertaining to the institution: 

• Coverage continues of the arrest and detention in Iran of retired Concordia professor Homa Hoodfar:
• The Canadian Press posts an article about a Hoodfar family member reporting that, while there is still no known formal charge against Hoodfar, the Tehran public prosecutor has indicated that she is being investigated for "dabbling in feminism and security matters." The family says Hoodfar, detained at Evin prison, remains cut off from outside contact. The story is picked up by close to 200 media, including: CTV News.ca, Radio-Canada.ca, LaPresse.ca, Montreal Gazette, Gazette e-edition, Le Devoir, The Globe and Mail, Le Soleil, Maclean's, Global News Montreal, CJAD.com,Huffington Post, Huffington Post Québec, Journal Métro, Metro News, The Toronto Star, MSN News, 24News.ca, Newscaf, The Hamilton Spectator, The IFP, BC Local News, Prince Rupert Northern View, Northumberland News, Guelph Mercury Tribune, CP24, Castanet.
• The Times (UK) picks up an earlier news report that Hoodfar is accused of being a feminist revolutionary.
• The CTV News Channel (video and text) interviews Hoodfar's niece Amanda Ghahremani, who says her aunt is being held in a ward of Evin prison known as Branch 2a, under the control of the counter intelligence unit of the Revolutionary Guard. The text version of the story is reprised by Campus Watch.
• The Globe and Mail publishes an editorial (linked by the Concordia University Faculty Association calling on the Canadian government, which currently has no diplomatic relations with Iran, to use whatever levers it has available to press for Hoodfar's release. The call is echoed in a piece, also in The Globe and Mail, by Amira Elghawaby, communications director of the National Council of Canadian Muslims. A Postmedia Network editorial that also calls for Hoodfar's release is reprised by Interlake Today, Elliot Lake Standard, Melfort Journal. 
• Le Lézard picks up a Québec Solidaire release from CNW/Telbec urging the federal government to take energetic action to secure Hoodfar's freedom.
• The Dalhousie University Faculty Association joins other Canadian university faculty associations in support of an Amnesty International appeal for Hoodfar's release. This and other calls and petitions for Hoodfar's release are reported in Newzilla.
• An opinion piece appears in Newsweek condemning Hoodfar's arrest and detention.
• MSN Actualités and Sympatico.ca pick up an earlier Radio-Canada text story, while Feminist Current links to a CBC.ca story on Hoodfar's arrest and detention.
• In other University Affairs:
• Canadian Consulting Engineer, reporting on engineering professor Tarek Zayed's development of a tool that uses sound waves to find leaks in underground water distribution networks (noted in "Our Research," above), notes that ShanghaiRanking’s Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) has ranked Concordia's Civil Engineering program 1st in Canada and 20th in the world in that engineering discipline. 
• Super Live picks up news of the confirmation of Alan Shepard for a second term as President and Vice-Chancellor of Concordia, as announced on May 20 in a statement from Board of Governors chairman Norman Hébert. The Engineering professor Ted Stathopoulos, president of the Concordia University Faculty Association, is quoted.
• Granby's La Voix de l'Est writes about an initiative to establish a grant for a student from Cameroon to study at Concordia. The student will be working on a conservation project at Cameroon's Campo Ma'an park.
• Bilaw posts a Montreal Lawyer/Monde Juridique announcement of courses on mediation available through Concordia's Continuing Education department.
• Le Devoir profiles artist Catherine Lecarbeau and her current art show, Le département des plantes, at the Darling Foundry art complex, in the Cité du Multimédia. It mentions the Sightings cube in the Hall Building among Lescarbeau's other work. The Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery is referenced.
• Several media, writing about a $2-million donation by the Jarislowsky Foundation to the Audain Art Museum in Whistler, B.C., mention that the foundation has established a number of university and arts-related chairs across the country, including the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art at Concordia: Vancouver Sun, The Georgia Straight, Pique News Magazine and Art Daily.

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