Bone marrow recipient. Tess Routliffe in the pool. Navid Navab in concert. Football defeats and wins. AVEQ Concordia.
Concordia in the news
Posted on September 12, 2016
Students
Current students at Concordia do outstanding academic work and get involved in community projects that improve our quality of life. See what they've been up to:
- CBC.ca reports that Concordia finance student Dennis Gudbranson is living a healthy life, twelve years after receiving a bone marrow transplant to fight myeloid leukemia. The report focuses on efforts by his brother, NHL hockey player Erik Gudbranson, to convince more young Canadian men to sign up as stem cell donors.
- The Toronto Observer reports on the performance of Rio paralympic swimmer and Concordia student Tess Routliffe.
- The Guelph Mercury Tribune reports that Concordia PhD student and musician Navid Navab will perform at the Guelph Little Theatre this Thursday evening.
- Several media report on Saturday's win by Université Laval's Rouge et Or football team over the Concordia Stingers, 37-18: LaPresse.ca, Le Journal de Montréal, Le Journal de Québec, Le Soleil, RDS (video and text),Québec Hebdo.
- The Canadian Press re-posts a report on the Stingers season opener, Friday, September 2, against the McGill Redmen, which the Stingers won 30-16 to clinch Concordia's third straight Shaughnessy Cup.
- Quartier Libre, the Université de Montréal student paper, announces that the Association pour la voix étudiante au Québec (AVEQ) will hold its next members' assembly at Concordia, October 8 and 9.