Compulsive shopping. Actes D'Amour. MTL Trajet.

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• Numerous media join 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 and destruction. The research was published in The Journal of Consumer Affairs: Independent, Harper's Bazaar (Russian-language edition), The Asian Age,Deccan Chronicle, The Siasat Daily, DotEmirates.com, Newsroom America, Refinery 29.
• The work of artist Eliza Griffiths, associate professor of painting and drawing in the Faculty of Fine Arts and a Concordia alumna (BFA '91) is featured in an article in Canadian Art, which mentions the ongoing show of her work, Actes D'Amour, at Galerie Montréal. Griffiths is quoted throughout.
• DarleneWolnik.com, previewing the Vanguard young leaders' conference happening in Montreal, May 31 to June 3, 2017, announces that conference participants will be able to use the MTL Trajet app throughout the event. The mobile app, developed at Concordia by a team led by Zachary Patterson, associate professor in the Department of Geography, Planning and the Environment in the Faculty of Arts and Science, was recently released by the City of Montreal to track Montrealers' commuting habits.

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