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• World News Report and MSN Actualités join coverage of last week's announcement of a five-year, $2.1-million grant to a group of Concordia researchers in support of their work to help protect Hydro Quebec's smart power grid from cyber attacks. The team is led by Mourad Debbabi, professor at the Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering (CIISE), who has been named principal chairholder of the Senior Industrial Research Chair in Smart Grid Security, Detection, Prevention, Mitigation and Recovery from Cyber-Physical Attacks.
• Business Standard describes a study led by Erin Barker, assistant professor of psychology in the Faculty of Arts and Science and member of the Centre for Research in Human Development (CRDH), of the beneficial impact occasional  negative moods can have on a person's performance at school or at work. Barker worked on the study with Department of Psychology colleague, professor Carsten Wrosch.
• Zachary Patterson, associate professor in the Department of Geography, Planning and the Environment in the Faculty of Arts and Science, was on the Radio-Canada Première Chaîne program 'La Sphère', on Saturday, to offer insight into the growing problem of traffic congestion in our cities. Patterson, who is first heard at the 46-minute mark, talks about the MTL Trajet mobile app, recently released by the City of Montreal to help it track Montrealers' commuting habits. Patterson led development of the app at Concordia's Transportation Research for Integrated Planning (TRIP) lab. 
• Advanced Television, writing about organic light-emitting diode (OLED) technology, mentions the long-term work on smart garments in Concordia's Department of Design and Computation Arts. 
• Lynda Clarke, interim chair of and associate professor in the Department of Religion of the Faculty of Arts and Science, appears at the 1:35-mark of a Radio-Canada television news report about women in Quebec who wear the niqab. Clarke is also quoted and pictured in the text version of the report (reprised by Sympatico), which refers to a 2013 study conducted by Clarke on behalf of the Canadian Council of Muslim Women.
• Nation Talk publishes a news release announcing the appointment of University of Winnipeg professor Angela Failler as a Canada Research Chair in Culture and Public Memory. It mentions that Failler directs a SSHRC Partnership Development Grant for Thinking through the Museum: Difficult Knowledge in Public, with co-investigators at Concordia and Carleton.

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