Spotlight on teaching and learning. Advantages of bilingualism. Iron oxide nanoparticles. The family business.

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• Concordia's Spotlight on Teaching and Learning continues: Times Colonist reprises an opinion piece from theMontreal Gazette, written by Nancy Acemian, senior lecturer in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, who explains how digital tools in the classroom greatly enhance the university learning experience.
• Parents Canada references a 2011 study led by Krista Byers-Heinlein, associate professor in the Department of Psychology and Concordia Research Chair in Bilingualism, that described how toddlers who learned a second language from infancy had better attention control than their unilingual peers.
• The Wiley Online Library posts an abstract of a paper on iron oxide nanoparticles, whose authors include Xavier Ottenwaelder, associate professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Jung Kwon Oh, Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in the same department, and Wangchuan Xiao, visiting professor from San Ming University, China.
• New Business (UK) reports figures about the survival of family businesses through two or more generations. The figures are from an article in the Wall Street Journal (November, 2015) quoting Peter Jaskiewicz, associate professor in the Department of Management and CIBC distinguished professor in entrepreneurship and family business.

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