Heritage of Smoke. Montreal Signs Project. Inside tornadoes. Indian Land. Hockey homophobia. Your brain on stairs. Sovereign Acts II.

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• The New York Times and Book Page publish reviews of the new short story collection by Josip Novakovich, English professor in the Faculty of Arts and Science: Heritage of Smoke (Dzanc Books, 2016).
• This past weekend's edition of the Global program, 'Focus Montreal', featured Matt Soar, associate professor of Communication Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Science, and Soar's Montreal Signs Project. The program offered a glimpse of the signs project Tel quel/As Is exhibition, on now on at the Loyola campus until this Friday, January 27. 
• Georgios Vatistas, professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, was interviewed for Radio Canada International about the research he led to examine the phenomenon of sharp temperature variations inside tornadoes. Recent Concordia master’s students Badwal Gurpreet Singh (MASc 14) and Rahul Rampal (MASc 14) collaborated on the study.
• Sault Online announces tomorrow's launch at Algoma University of the new book by Karle Hele, associate professor of First Peoples Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Science, This is Indian Land (Aboriginal Issues Press, 2016) — a collection of essays about Canadian land treaties with First Nations, co-authored and edited by Hele.
• University of Alberta post-doctoral researcher Cheryl Macdonald is featured in a story in Metro News describing her research on homophobia in hockey. Macdonald completed the study as a Concordia doctoral candidate in social and cultural analysis in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. 
• Le Journal de Montréal references the Concordia study, led by PERFORM Centre researcher Jason Steffener, that shows how education and simple physical activity such as taking the stairs can significantly slow the rate of ageing of the brain. The study findings were published in Neurobiology of Aging.
• Cult Montreal announces the Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery art exhibition, Sovereign Acts II, which opened on Saturday and runs through April 1st. The show focuses on stereotyped representations of Indigenous Peoples

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