Hydrological threats. Trump and the rust belt. Locative media. Shopping success. Mental health claims.
Concordia in the news
Posted on November 17, 2016
Researchers in the news
The scholarly work of Concordia faculty and researchers informs and improves society on many issues that affect our daily lives. Visit the Research section to read news stories involving research at Concordia, or read the most recent items here:
- Phys.org and AMEQ en ligne (behind a paywall) report on a new study, led by Ali Nazemi, assistant professor in the Department of Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering, of how climate change and increased human interference threaten the flow of Alberta headwaters that are critical to agricultural irrigation on the Prairies. The research is published in Hydrological Processes.
- Steven High, history professor in the Faculty of Arts and Science, offers Times Higher Education insight into the Donald Trump electoral victory in the American Great Lakes and Midwest states. The article includes mention of High's research work on deindustrialization and of his book, Industrial Sunset: The Making of North America’s Rust Belt.
- Rilla Khaled, associate professor in the Department of Design and Computation Arts, and Pippin Barr, assistant professor in the same department, talk to Vice's Waypoint about digital locative media. The piece features Barr's 2009 interactive fiction work, Crisis 22, and the Story Trek location-based storytelling tool, whose initial developer was Rilla Khaled.
- Consumer Affairs joins coverage of new research led by Onur Bodur, associate professor of marketing in the John Molson School of Business, and A. Selin Atalay of the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management that describes how a consumer's ability to accomplish their shopping plans can be impaired by multitasking, such as talking on their cellphone.
- Charity Village, Exchange Magazine and Yahoo! Sports pick up a news release describing an insurance industry study of mental health in the workplace, led by researchers at the Université de Montréal with the participation of unnamed Concordia researchers. The study is also described in Benefits Canada and in a brief in Benefits and Pensions Monitor.