New Syrian students. Art restitution. Homa Hoodfar and Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe. Sweet memories of the Grey Nuns. TAU exchange. Photovoltaic power.

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

• Television news crews reported the arrival in Montreal yesterday of Syrian refugees Dunia Al Mehlm and Mohamad Sarhan, who will begin studies at Concordia next month on a scholarship offered by the university in collaboration with the Syrian Kids Foundation: CBC's Montreal at 6 newscast featured a story about volunteers who prepared for Al Mehlm's and Sarhan's arrival, starting at the 12:25 mark, with Concordia mentioned at the 13:20-mark; the Syrian Kids Foundation posts raw CBC footage of the two Syrians' arrival; CBC's Montreal at 11 closed, at the 28:40-mark, with a reference to the refugees' arrival at Trudeau airport; CBC.ca (linked by Canada Standard) posted a text story on the arrival at the airport; CTV News Montreal (reprised on The Loop) previewed the arrival (video and text) on its 6 p.m. newscast and aired a full report (video and text) on its late-evening edition; the story was also featured on Global News Montreal (video and text).
• The National Post writes about the work of the Concordia-led Max Stern Art Restitution Project and the return of works of art looted by the Nazis during the Second World War. It mentions the project's most recent success: the return of two Dutch Old Masters paintings. The article is reprised in the Windsor Star.
• UK's Evening Standard quotes Homa Hoodfar in an article about the continued imprisonment in Iran of British-Iranian humanitarian worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe. Hoodfar says she shared a cell with Zaghari-Ratcliffe one night in Evin prison. 
• The CTV National wrapped up last evening's newscast with a report on the revival at Concordia of century-old cookie and sweets recipes from the Grey Nuns dietetics manual. The report shows an Aramark food services chef at work in the kitchen of the Grey Nuns Residence, and Concordia student Eva Espenshade and others enjoying authentic Grey Nuns deserts from the heritage menu. The text version of the story is picked up by Life Magazine, Newscaf and 24News.ca.
• Concordia's recent exchange and cooperation agreement with Tel Aviv University, signed by president Alan Shepard during last month's Montreal trade and exchange mission to Israel and the West Bank, is referenced in an article in The Canadian Jewish News. The item focuses on a major gift to Tel Aviv University by former prominent Quebec real estate developer Sylvan Adams.
• Solar Thermal World, writing about the use of thermodynamic PVT (power, volume and temperature) technology in modern buildings, cites and pictures Concordia's John Molson School of Business, with its photovoltaic solar panels, as an example of the integration of practical PVT systems.

 More university affairs in the news