Smart grid research chair. Building on religious heritage. Showcase Concordia. Urban farming.
Concordia in the news
Posted on November 30, 2016
University affairs
Various issues concerning Concordia University are often reported on by news outlets. Here is the most recent coverage pertaining to the institution:
- A CNW release invites media representatives to the inauguration, tomorrow at 10:30 a.m. in the EV Building (Room 11.725) of the five-year NSERC/Hydro-Québec Thales Senior Industrial Research Chair on Smart Grid Security. It announces that the principal chairholder will be Mourad Debbabi, associate dean of Research and Graduate Studies in the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science and professor in the Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering. The release is picked up by Money News.
- LaPresse.ca, writing about efforts to preserve Montreal's religious architectural heritage, mentions the former Grey Nuns’ Motherhouse, now a student residence at Concordia, and the Grey Nuns’ chapel, converted by Concordia into a study hall.
- Media Avataar picks up coverage of a recent International News Media Association (INMA) report on "native advertising", or paid content, that features the five-part "Showcase Concordia" campaign that ran in the Montreal Gazette earlier this year.
- Before It's News reprises a piece from Maclean's about urban farming that mentions the Concordia Greenhouse.