Smart Grid chair. Concordia Mideast mission.

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

• TD Waterhouse and Shaw Connect pick up an earlier CNW release inviting media representatives to today's inauguration (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 chair holder 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 Suburban, reporting on a recent mission to Israel and the West Bank led by Montreal mayor Denis Coderre, notes the presence among the mission delegates of Concordia representatives who signed agreements with Tel Aviv University, Hebrew University, Ben-Gurion University and Jordan University of Science and Technology. The Concordia delegation was led by president Alan Shepard. 

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