Ageism in the workplace. Women's memory. Referendum Integrity Project. Sand in the cement.

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• Science Daily joins coverage of a new study on ageism in the workplace, led by Steven Appelbaum, management professor in the John Molson School of Business. Appelbaum headed a team of intergenerational researchers who wrote a series of three papers, published in Industrial and Commercial Training, examining the barriers to integration of older workers. 
• Praxis Vita (in German) picks up news of new research, led by psychology professor Wayne Brake, on memory in women and how it is affected by hormones. 
• The University of Ottawa announces that political science professor Guy Lachapelle, Secretary General of the International Political Science Association, will give a talk, in Ottawa, Monday, October 312 at noon, to launch the Referendum Integrity Project (RIP) — an international research project aimed at assessing the fairness, legitimacy and legality of referendums around the world.
• Daily Commercial News writes about research by Concordia lecturer (environmental engineering) and alumna (PhD, environmental engineering '14) Mahsa Madani Hosseini. The paper, written in partial fulfillment of Hosseini's PhD, examined the viability of replacing, or at least displacing, sand in the production of cement.

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