Primates and climate change. Pessimistic and stressed. Curatorial Dreams. Stairway to brain health.

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• There is coverage in DNA India, Times of Kabul and AMEQ en ligne (behind a paywall) of a recent Concordia studyof the impact of climate change on more than 400 non-human primate species. The paper's lead author is MSc student Tanya Graham in the Department of Geography, Planning and Environment, who worked with Damon Matthews, associate professor in the same department.
• The Good Men Project reports on the results of a 2013 Concordia study, led by psychology professor Carsten Wrosch and then-PhD candidate Joelle Jobin, of the relationship between optimism and lower stress levels.
• The Globe and Mail publishes a brief review of the book Curatorial Dreams: Critics Imagine Exhibitions (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2016), co-edited by Erica Lehrer, associate professor in the Department of History and Canada Research Chair in Museum and Heritage Studies.
• Women's Brain Health Initiative reports on a Concordia study that shows how aging of the brain can be significantly slowed by education and simple physical activity, such as taking the stairs. The study, led by Jason Steffener, former researcher at Concordia's PERFORM Centre, was published earlier this year in the journal Neurobiology of Aging.

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