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Concordia faculty and researchers are regularly asked to offer expert, informed opinions on many of today's most pressing problems. Read some of the latest news items about Concordians:

• Patrick Marier, professor in the Department of Political Science and Concordia Research Chair in Aging and Public Policy was interviewed for an article in Le Devoir about family caregivers in Quebec in the context of an ageing of the province's population. 
• Erin Barker, assistant professor of psychology in the Faculty of Arts and Science, was a guest on CBC Montreal radio's 'Homerun' (no link available) and on CJAD's Natasha Hall Show, last Friday afternoon to discuss stress during the Holiday period. The CJAD interview is found on the show page, through the link 'Why are people blue around the holidays? With Dr. Erin Baker, psychologist'. Note that Barker is mistakenly identified as "Baker".
• CBC re-broadcasts an episode of 'Ideas', with host Paul Kennedy, that originally aired on May 22, 2014. The participants in the program, focusing on the anthropology of sensory perception, include David Howes, professor of anthropology in the Faculty of Arts and Science, and Chris Salter, associate professor in the Department of Design and Computation Arts and Milieux Institute researcher. Howes and Salter are heard in clips throughout the program.
• Emer O'Toole, assistant professor of Irish Performance Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Science, is quoted in an article in Ireland's Independent about modern feminism.
• Chedly Belkhodja, principal of and professor in the School of Community and Public Affairs, and Ted Rutland, assistant professor of geography and urban studies in the Faculty of Arts and Science, are listed as signatories to an open letter in Le Devoir calling on the Quebec government to show greater sensitivity to cultural diversity and to strike a public commission of inquiry into systemic racism.
• The Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS) at Concordia is listed among the signatories to an open letter in Libération calling for a stop to the aerial bombing of Aleppo, Syria, and urging U.N.-member countries to press for an end to atrocities in Syria.
• Le Mauricien announces that Richard Foltz, professor of religion in the Faculty of Arts and Science, will participate in a conference on the modern Silk Road through the Indian Ocean, opening tomorrow in Île Maurice.

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