The female orgasm. Your child's brain on music. Cool roofs.

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• CNNIndonesia.com (in Indonesian) joins 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.
• Marie France Asia references a 2013 Concordia study that showed early music lessons boost brain development in children. The study was led by Virginia Penhune, chair of and professor in the Department of Psychology in the Faculty of Arts and Science. 
• Berkeley Lab announces that Hashem Akbari, professor in the Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering, participated in the development of technology that simulates the ageing of roofing materials. The process, expected to accelerate the deployment of energy-conserving cool roofs, was recently named among R&D Magazine‘s R&D 100 Awards. The release is picked up by EIN News.

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