Katimavik revival. Hacking the vote. History of religions. Learning to create. For the love of soccer. Biopolitics.
Concordia in the news
Posted on August 31, 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:
- The Montreal Gazette quotes Saul Carliner, associate professor in the Department of Education, in a report about the possible revival, by the federal government, of the Katimavik youth exchange program.
- Jeremy Clark, assistant professor in the Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering (CIISE), is quoted in a piece in Forbes about the vulnerability to hackers of voting machines in the U.S.
- André Gagné, associate professor in the Department of Theology, tells Huffington Post Québec that it's time for high schools in Quebec to offer history courses on the world's main religions.
- Recording artist, author and speaker David Usher, founding director of the Human Impact Lab at Concordia, is featured in a piece in The Hamilton Spectator, reprised in Hamilton Community News, about how creativity can be learned.
- Le Journal de Montréal runs two stories about Stingers men's soccer coach Greg Sutton: the first, tracing Sutton's soccer career as a player on the Montreal Impact and coach with the Stingers; the second focusing on his work at the helm of the Stingers soccer team.
- A release from the Université de L'Outaouais et des Laurentides announcing a one-day symposium on biopolitics, Saturday, September 3, lists Nathan Brown, assistant professor in the Department of English, Krista Lynes, assistant professor in the Department of Communication Studies, and Erik Bordeleau of the Concordia SenseLab, among the participants.