Refugees in social media. Return of Lemon Hound. Engineering gender gap. Love and desire.

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• Nadia Naffi, PhD candidate in the Department of Education, was interviewed for French-language French-language Radio Canada International and Arabic Radio Canada International about the image in social media of Syrian refugees — the focus of her research at Concordia.   
• Quill & Quire reports the return of the online literary journal Lemon Hound, originally launched in 2005 by Sina Queyras, assistant professor of English in the Faculty of Arts and Science.
• Nature Index reports on a new study of the gender gap in the field of engineering. The statistical study, led by doctoral candidate Gita Ghiasi, describes a trend where female engineers get less attention than their male counterparts, despite publishing in more journals. 
• VOA/Learning English references a 2012 study co-authored by Jim Pfaus, psychology professor in the Faculty of Arts and Science, that described how love and sexual desire activate different but related areas of the brain.

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