Innovation, Technology and Society. Homa Hoodfar. Gender pronouns.

Various issues concerning Concordia University are often reported on by news outlets. Here is the most recent coverage pertaining to the institution: 

• The Montreal Gazette and the Gazette e-edition publish sponsored content featuring a new Concordia program, launching in January, 2017. It concerns a graduate certificate in “Innovation, Technology and Society”, aimed at giving students, working with Concordia's District 3 Innovation Centre, the opportunity to transform startup ideas into marketable products and services. The program was created by the Centre for Engineering in Society and hosted by the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science. Deborah Dysart-Gale, chair of  and associate professor in the Centre for Engineering in Society, is quoted and pictured, as is District 3 executive director and co-founder Xavier-Henri Hervé. The piece is carried also by Press Reader. 
• Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's involvement in efforts to secure the recent release of Homa Hoodfar from detainment by Iran is referenced in a piece in the Huffington Post about Trudeau's first year in office. Hoodfar is pictured upon her arrival at Trudeau International airport.
• Gabrielle Bouchard, action coordinator at the Centre for Gender Advocacy at Concordia, is quoted in The Toronto Star's coverage (also in the paper's e-edition) of the controversy surrounding the refusal by a professor at the University of Toronto to use gender-neutral pronouns in the presence of transgender people. Bouchard tells the paper that there is a growing practice at Concordia of displaying signs outside offices asking people to specify by what pronoun they want to be addressed. The article is picked up by The Hamilton Spectator , Our Windsor, St. Thomas/Elgin Weekly News and New Hamburg Independent. 

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