Preventing summer learning loss. Staying sharp post-retirement. Circus dramaturgy.

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• Yahoo! News reprises a CBC Montreal News item in which Helena Osana, associate professor in the Department of Education, provides tips to help parents prevent summer learning loss in children.  
• Karen Li, professor in the Department of Psychology and principal investigator at the Laboratory for Adult Development and Cognitive Aging, speaks to NJ.com about the need for retirees to seek social and mental stimulation as a way to stay mentally sharp post-retirement.
• Patrick Leroux, associate professor in the Department of English and founding director of The Montreal Working Group on Circus, discussed the circus dramaturgy project he led at the National Circus School on the Czech national radio station Vltava (interview begins at 39:04). Some of Leroux’s comments are translated into English, but most of the interview is in Czech.

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