Freezing in a tornado. Concordia wind tunnel. Canadian land treaties. Food for thought.

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• Coverage begins of the research led by Georgios Vatistas, professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, on the phenomenon of temperature drops inside tornados. Recent Concordia master’s students Badwal Gurpreet Singh (MASc 14) and Rahul Rampal (MASc 14) collaborated on the study, published in the Journal of Aircraft of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics: Daily Mail, Sunday Mail Online, Phys.org, Physics World, WorldNews, Canada Standard, AMEQ en ligne (behind a paywall), Singapore News, Knowridge, News 7 Paper.
• Ted Stathopoulos, professor in the Department of Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering, is featured on the Radio Canada program Le 15-18. The online piece, text and audio, focuses on Stathopoulos' wind tunnel work at the Building Aerodynamics Laboratory, which he established at Concordia.​
• The Sault Star publishes a review of This is Indian Land (Aboriginal Issues Press, 2016) — a collection of essays about Canadian land treaties with First Nations, co-authored and edited by Karl Hele, associate professor of First Peoples Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Science.
• World News Report links to a piece from Châtelaine (December 28, 2016) presenting a list of ten foods that may help prevent Alzheimer's. The list was researched and compiled by PERFORM Centre researcher Matthew Parrott, and Carol Greenwood of the Rotman Research Institute. 

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