Yee Clun's 'Lost Story'. Your brain on dance and music. Vermicomposting. Slower ageing.

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• Ronald Rudin, history professor in the Faculty of Arts and Science and co-director of the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling, was on CBC Saskatchewan's 'The Morning Edition' earlier today to discuss the 'Lost Stories' project and the collection of little-known stories of Canadians, to be published for Canada Day, 2017 (no link available). Rudin is quoted in a piece in the Regina Leader-Post about a Chinese businessman, Yee Clun, who challenged Regina City Hall in 1924 for the right to hire white women in his restaurant. Clun's is one of the 'Lost Stories'. 
• CTV Montreal (video and text) report on a Concordia study led by Virginia Penhune, chair of and professor in the Department of Psychology in the Faculty of Arts and Science, and psychology PhD student Chiara Giacosa, at the International Laboratory for Brain, Music and Sound Research. They examined the different effects of dance and music training on brain development. Giacosa and Penhune appear on camera to explain their findings, which were published in NeuroImage.
• Science Daily and San Diego Jewish World pick up coverage of a new Concordia study of vermicomposting that shows how worms can be used to "upcycle" waste into both compost and animal feed. The study, recently published in Waste Management, was led by Louise Hénault-Ethier (BSc, biology '05 and MSc, biology and chemistry '07), who carried out her research while pursuing her master’s degree. Hénault-Ethier worked with Concordia chemistry professor Yves Gélinas and biology professor Vincent Martin, in the Faculty of Arts and Science.
• American Spa reports on a study, conducted jointly by researchers at Concordia and the Quebec-based biotech company Idunn Technologies, that identifies molecules in plants that could slow the ageing process. The study, led by associate professor of biology Vladimir Titorenko and Idunn Technologies founder Éric Simard, was published in Oncotarget.

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