Inside a tornado. Cyber Security lab. Montreal Signs Project. Lost Stories. Expo 67 50th. Celluloid on show. Land treaties.

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• Coverage continues of 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: Physics World,Science Daily, Tekniikan Maailma (in Finnish), WIAT.com. The study was published in the Journal of Aircraft of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
• Concordia's Cyber Security Research Centre, led by Mourad Debbabi, professor at the Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering (CIISE), is featured in a report on Radio Canada's Le Téléjournal 18h (video and text). Debabbi describes the centre's work to train hundreds of cybersecurity experts for government, business and other sectors. The text version of the story is reprised by Sympatico.
• La Presse + announces the Tel quel/As Is signs exhibition at the Loyola campus, on now through January 27. It notes that the exhibition is part of the Montreal Signs Project — an initiative of Matt Soar, associate professor of Communication Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Science, and Nancy Marrelli, Concordia archivist emerita. The exhibition was referenced also on Global Montreal's late newscast, yesterday.
• Ronald Rudin, history professor in the Faculty of Arts and Science and co-director of the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling, appeared on CBC Moncton radio's Information Morning, yesterday. Rudin gave an update on his 'Lost Stories' project and focused on the story of the inhabitants of Sheldrake Island, at the mouth of New Brunswick's Miramichi River. The island was once home to a leprosy colony, established by the province of New Brunswick. The 'Lost Stories' collection will be published for Canada Day, 2017. 
• The Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal releases its program of exhibitions for 2017, including In Search of Expo 67, celebrating  Expo 67's 50th anniversary. The show, taking place from June 21 to October 8, was co-curated by Monika Kin Gagnon, professor of communication studies in the Faculty of Arts and Science and co-director of the CinemaExpo67 research team at Concordia: CNW, Yahoo! Finance, The Province.
• CBC posts an article featuring film production professor Richard Kerr and his exhibition, Richard Kerr: Postindustrial, on now until June 2nd at the CIBC Canadian Film Gallery in Toronto.
• The North Bay Nugget and My Informs reprise a Sault Star 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.

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