Stressed for success. Lost Stories. In search of Expo 67. Homophobic hockey.

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• Study International reports on a Concordia study of student performance, 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. Barker, working with Carsten Wrosch, psychology professor in the Faculty of Arts and science, determined that occasional negative moods can impact positively on a person's performance at school.
• Ronald Rudin, history professor in the Faculty of Arts and Science and co-director of the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling, is quoted at length in an article in Acadie Nouvelle about an art project to commemorate the 19th century leper colony on Sheldrake Island, at the mouth of New Brunswick's Miramichi River. The initiative is part of Rudin's 'Lost Stories' project to mark the 150th anniversary of Canadian Confederation. 
• LaPresse.ca, writing about the 2017 exhibitions program of the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, highlights In Search of Expo 67, celebrating  Expo 67's 50th anniversary. The show, taking place from June 21 to October 8, is 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.
• University of Alberta post-doctoral researcher Cheryl Macdonald, featured in a story on CBC.ca, describes her research on homophobia in hockey, which she completed as a Concordia doctoral candidate in social and cultural analysis in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology.

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