Spotlight on business ownership. Women's memory. Living textiles. Radio Hexa Wave. Cool materials.

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• This week's Concordia Spotlight on Business Ownership features new research from the John Molson School of Business that probes received notions about the lifestyles of the very wealthy "one percent." Michael Carney, professor in the Department of Management, and Robert Nason, assistant professor in the same department, challenge widely-held assumptions about the one per cent of wealthiest Americans and describe how the group in the U.S. is actually made up of 1.6 million households with widely varying levels of wealth. The study, published in Business & Society, is covered in several media: Les Affaires, Health Medicine Network, Phys.org The Science Explorer, Newswise, Yibada, AMEQ en ligne (behind a paywall).
• Health Central picks up coverage of new research, led by Wayne Brake, psychology professor in the Faculty of Arts and Science, on how women's memory is affected by hormonal changes. 
• Visual Arts News writes about the bio art of alumna WhiteFeather Hunter (MFA 2016) at the Milieux Institute of Arts, Culture and Technology at Concordia. Hunter has developed methods that use living textiles, including her own hair, to create art.
• Actualités UQAM writes about the Radio Hexa Wave project, involving interviews with Hexagram artists and researchers at Concordia and UQAM. . 
• Sassuolo (in Italian) announces that Hashem Akbari, professor in the Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering, will give a talk, today, at the University of Modena, in Italy, about his research into cool materials and how they can be used to combat urban heat islands.

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