Lost (Canadian) stories. Bilingual toddlers. Blekkmetal. Art therapy for refugee children.

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• The Montreal Gazette and its e-edition (reprised by Canada.com) and The Suburban write about a research project, led by history professor Ronald Rudin, co-director of the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling. Rudin's Lost Stories project focuses on finding little-known stories of Canadians in time for Canada's 150th anniversary. Rudin was also interviewed on CBC Radio's The World this Weekend (interview begins at 24:23) and on CBC Television's The National last Saturday, July 2. The TV piece aired on local newscasts across the country, including on CBC Montreal. 
• The Scientist references a study, led by psychology professor Diane Poulin-Dubois, of the cognitive benefits to children of being bilingual as toddlers. The results of the study were published last winter in the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology.
• Vivek Venkatesh, associate professor in the Department of Education, is interviewed for Rampage about Grimposium, the conference Venkatesh created for his research on the metal music genre. A footnote to the interview mentions yesterday's screening of the concert film Blekkmetal at the EV Building's VA.114 cinema. Sunday's screening was also announced in AllEvents.
• An article in Psych Central about research into how refugee children may benefit from art therapy references a 2011 study from Concordia of art therapy for soldiers returning from Afghanistan and Iraq who must deal with post-traumatic stress disorder. The researcher, who is not named in the article, is Cheryl Miller, who completed the study as part of her master’s thesis in Concordia's Department of Creative Arts Therapies.

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