Cirque Global. Adult education award. Istanbul terror attack. The Walrus Talks Vice. Summer digital detox. Nanophotonics seminar. Polyglot kids.
Concordia in the news
Posted on July 4, 2016
Expert commentators
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:
- Patrick Leroux, associate professor in the Department of English and founding director of The Montreal Working Group on Circus, appeared on the CTV noon news with Mutsumi Takahashi, last Thursday, to discuss the book,Cirque Global (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2016), co-written and co-edited by Leroux.
- The Armenian Mirror-Spectator reports that Arpi Hamalian, associate professor in the Department of Education, has received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education (CASAE). Hamalian was nominated for the award by students in Concordia's adult education programs.
- Ceren Belge, associate professor in the Department of Political Science, is quoted in a piece in LaPresse.ca about the terror attacks on Istanbul's airport and its aftermath. Belge says the attack will have a devastating impact on Turkish tourism.
- The Walrus posts video of Rebecca Duclos, dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts, speaking at The Walrus Talks Vice in Toronto, April 27. The event was presented by Concordia's Thinking Out Loud and The Walrus Magazine.
- Felice Yuen, associate professor in the Department of Applied Human Sciences, guested on CBC Montreal Radio Noon last Thursday (no audio link available). Yuen answered listeners' questions about the "summer digital detox," and the benefits of unplugging your devices for part of the summer.
- ElDia.es and 20 minutos (both in Spanish) announce that John Capobianco will be among the participants at a two-day seminar, Nanophotonics applied to biomedicine, this week at University of La Laguna, in Spain.
- DW (in German) reprises an earlier article quoting Krista Byers-Heinlein, assistant professor in the Department of Psychology, about children who learn multiple languages.