Safe computer sleep. Another found story. Cabinet Shuffle. Policy and media. HPV study.

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• Worldwide media coverage continues of the development by two Concordians of a home computer security system that protects data even when a computer is in sleep mode. The Hypnoguard system was developed by  PhD candidate Lianying Zhao, with Mohammad Mannan, associate professor in the Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering: The Economic Times (India), The Free Press Journal (in a brief toward the bottom-third of the page), Daily Excelsior, BGR India, Hindustan Times e-edition, Deccan Chronicle, DNA India, Seattle Indian, eeDesignIt.com.
• Ronald Rudin, history professor in the Faculty of Arts and Science and co-director of the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling, is quoted in a CBC.ca article, reprised by Yahoo! News, about an artistic memorial to Ottawa's Southway Inn motel,  which was noted for flying the Nunavut flag. The Southway Inn story has been included in the 'Lost Stories' project, led by Rudin, which will culminate in the publication of a series of little-known Canadian stories to mark Canada Day, 2017. 
• David Waddington, associate professor of education in the Faculty of Arts and Science, and William Robinson, humanities PhD candidate, appear in a VICE video report about the educational card game Cabinet Shuffle. The two created the game to encourage discussion about identity and politics by letting players create and shuffle their own federal cabinets
• Yasmin Jiwani, communications studies professor  in the Faculty of Arts and Science, describes her work on the relationship between policy and media in an article in New Canadian Media.
• Glamour Paris publishes a brief description of a recent research review led by Jim Pfaus, psychology professor in the Faculty of Arts and Science, who pondered the female orgasm. Pfaus, working with graduate students Gonzalo Quintana Zunino and Conall Mac Cionnaith, concluded that women derive intense sexual pleasure from numerous sources of stimulation. Yahoo! Style links back to the Glamour brief.
• Collective Evolution posts a link to its earlier story, from October, 2015, reporting on a federal grant to Genevieve Rail, professor in the Simone de Beauvoir Institute, to study the Human Papillomavirus (HPV).

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