Ottawa shuffle. Anniversary: the iPhone. About Maggie Nelson. Refugee challenges.

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:

• Guy Lachapelle, political science professor in the Faculty of Arts and Science and secretary general of the International Political Science Association (IPSA), offered analysis of yesterday's cabinet shuffle in Ottawa on Radio-Canada Première Chaîne and on Radio-Canada stations in Sherbrooke, Moncton, Sudbury, Regina, Winnipeg, Edmonton and Vancouver. Lachapelle was also interviewed for the Radio-Canada news service in Montreal.
• Fenwick McKelvey, assistant professor of communication studies in the Faculty of Arts and Science, appears at the 1:40 mark of a Global National news report marking the tenth anniversary of the release by Apple of the original iPhone.
• Chantal Ringuet, research associate at the Concordia Institute for Canadian Jewish Studies, is a guest on theRadio-Canada Première Chaîne program, Plus on est de fous, plus on lit, where she talks about American feminist writer Maggie Nelson. The audio link appears on the bottom half of the show-page, as "Les nouveaux penseurs : Discussion avec C. Ringuet, R. Antonius, X. Brouillette". Ringuet is heard at the 7:05 mark.
• Marie Lamensch, project coordinator and assistant to the director of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS) at Concordia, is quoted in an article in the Université de Montréal student paper Quartier Libre that examines the challenges facing Syrian refugees as they arrive in Montreal to begin university studies.Note: the article includes a chart according to which Concordia is sponsoring one Syrian refugee. The university is in fact sponsoring two Syrians, who are studying this winter at Concordia.

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