Smart bra. Remembering Robert Bourassa. Workplace ageism. Women's memory and hormones. Tough commute. Urban sprawl.

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• A Financial Post article about OMSignal's smart bra — the OMbra — mentions Joanna Berzowska, associate professor in the Department of Design and Computation Arts and head of OMSignal's smart textile team. She is also founder and research director of Concordia's XS Labs, focusing on innovation in the fields of electronic textiles, and member of the Milieux Textile and Materiality research cluster. 
• Guy Lachapelle, political science professor in the Faculty of Arts and Science, is quoted in a retrospective piece in LaPresse.ca about former premier, the late Robert Bourassa. The Presse Canadienne article draws from the book, Robert Bourassa : un bâtisseur tranquil (Les Presses de l'Université Laval, 2003), co-written by Lachapelle.The piece also appears in LeSoleil.ca, Huffington Post Québec, Journal Métro and MSN actualités. 
• The Municipal Information Network (behind a paywall) joins coverage of a new study on ageism in the workplace, led by management professor Steven Appelbaum. The study consist of three papers examining the barriers to integration of older workers, published in Industrial and Commercial Training.
• The Times of India e-edition picks up news of new research, led by Wayne Brake, psychology professor in the Faculty of Arts and Science, on how women's memory is affected by hormones. 
• The Montreal Gazette, writing about the city's increasingly long and difficult commute to and from work, references a 2014 study of urban sprawl, co-authored by Jochen Jaeger, associate professor of geography, planning & environment in the Faculty of Arts and Science. The piece is reprised by Canada.com.
• Eco Localizer reports on another urban sprawl study co-written by Jaeger that offers potential solutions. 

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