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• Justin Powlowski, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry in the Faculty of Arts and Science and interim VP, Research and Graduate Studies, is interviewed for and quoted throughout a piece in Le Devoir about a new multidisciplinary approach to research at Concordia. 
• Le Devoir features the recent study led by Michael Carney, professor in the Department of Management, and department colleague, assistant professor Robert Nason of popular assumptions about the lifestyle of the very wealthy "one percent." 
• Virginia Penhune, chair of and professor in the Department of Psychology in the Faculty of Arts and Science, is interviewed in Le Devoir about the  new study she co-authored with psychology PhD student Chiara Giacosa at the International Laboratory for Brain, Music and Sound Research. Penhune and Giacosa examined the different effects of dance and music training on brain development. The study, published in NeuroImage, is the focus of a second article in Le Devoir that examines the study and quotes Giacosa.
• There is continuing coverage of a Concordia review of current research into the female orgasm: Jim Pfaus, psychology professor in the Faculty of Arts and Science and co-authors Gonzalo Quintana Zunino and Conall Mac Cionnaith, graduate students at Concordia, describe the potential for female arousal from a great variety of sensory inputs: Huffington Post, TVAnouvelles.ca,   The review was published in Socioaffective Neuroscience & Psychology.
• Ronald Rudin, history professor in the Faculty of Arts and Science and co-director of the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling, participates in a discussion on the Radio Canada program 'Format libre' of Rudin's 'Lost Stories' project and its inclusion of the story of the inhabitants of Sheldrake Island. The island, at the mouth of New Brunswick's Miramichi River, was once home to a leprosy colony, established by the province of New Brunswick. The 'Lost Stories' collection will be published for Canada Day, 2017. The show audio segment is found toward the bottom of the page, through the link: 'L'Île Sheldrake accueil pour victimes de la lèpre sera reconnue'.
• The Montreal Gazette writes about a recent Léger Marketing survey, commissioned by the Concordia Chair for the Study of Québec and the Association for Canadian Studies, according to which more Quebecers view a diploma from an anglophone university as promising than see promise in a diploma from a francophone university. The article is reprised by the Ottawa Citizen and Canada Standard.

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