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Women's Y award to Berzowska. Techy university classrooms. Iceland pilgrimage.

Concordia in the news
Posted on August 10, 2016

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  • Lien MultimĂ©dia reports that Joanna Berzowska, associate professor in the Department of Design and Computation Arts, member of Milieux’sTextile and Materiality research cluster and founding research director of Concordia's design research studio, XS Labs, was recently named the Montreal Y Foundation's 2016 Woman of Distinction for science and technology. Berzowska is also listed among this year's Women's Y Distinction Awards recipients in a piece in the Montreal Gazette.
  • Vivek Venkatesh, associate professor in the Department of Education, and Jihan Rabah, a doctoral candidate in the same department, are listed as co-authors of a paper published in the McGill Journal of Education that looks at the integration of technology in University courses.
  • Matthew Anderson, lecturer in the Department of Theological Studies and pilgrimage expert, was interviewed onCBC Radio's 'All in a Weekend' about his recent pilgrimage to Iceland. Anderson spoke about half-way through the pilgrimage. Anderson also appears in a news report on Icelandic television Visir (video, at the 1:40 mark, and text, in Icelandic).