Compulsive shoppers. Ethics and religious culture. Fondateur du design moderne. Antivirus software.

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• Newswise picks up coverage of new research whose authors, Michel Laroche, marketing professor at the John Molson School of Business, and HEC marketing professor Marcelo Nepomuceno, conclude that compulsive shoppers' impulse to spend can be spurred by world news of death. The research was published in The Journal of Consumer Affairs.
• A piece in Huffington Post Québec references La face cachée du cours éthique et culture religieuse (Leméac Éditeur, 2016), a collection of essays co-authored by André Gagné, associate professor of theology in the Faculty of Arts and Science. In the book, Gagné argues for high school courses in ethics and religious culture to be taught from an historical and anthropological perspective.
• L'Ordre des Architectes du Québec runs a brief review of the book Julien Hébert, fondateur du design moderne au Québec (Éditions du passage), by Martin Racine, associate professor and graduate program director in the Department of Design and Computation Arts.
• A Concordia study of the shortcomings of computer antivirus software is referenced in Tech2: Mohammad Mannan, assistant professor in the Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering, and PhD student Xavier de Carné de Carnavalet demonstrate that most computer antivirus software may actually increase cybersecurity risks.

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