New weapon against alcoholism. HIV and First Nations. Next-generation data centres. Foraging prey fish.

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• There is media coverage of new Concordia research that shows the anti-smoking drug Champix can be used to fight alcoholism by helping recovering alcoholics resist their old alcohol-consumption triggers. The study, published in Neuropsychopharmacology, was led by Nadia Chaudhri, associate professor of psychology in Concordia’s Faculty of Arts and Science: Le Journal de Montréal, Journal de Montréal e-edition, TVAnouvelles.ca, AMEQ en ligne (behind a paywall), Wire Service. Chaudhri was also interviewed yesterday on CJAD's Aaron Rand Show (no link available).
• Radio-Canada.ca writes about a pilot project being led by Gilbert Émond, associate professor in the Department of Applied Human Sciences of the Faculty of Arts and Science, to produce a more complete picture of the incidence of HIV among Canada's Indigenous population. Émond says he hopes to have preliminary results from HIV screenings and interviews within six months.
• The McGill Reporter writes that Glenn Cowan, assistant professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, is collaborating with McGill researchers on a three-year project involving energy-efficient hardware infrastructure for next-generation data centres. The project is backed by NSERC Strategic Partnership Grants.
• Oxford University Press runs an article co-written by Grant E. Brown, biology professor in the Faculty of Arts and Science, Concordia PhD candidate Pierre Chuard and Carleton postdoctoral fellow, Chris Elvidge, describing their study of predation and foraging among prey fish.

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