Titorenko research: ageing, cancer. Sustainable investment. Shaping Quebec. SOMEONE project. Champix. Bengaluru bus. Digital literacy. Native Peoples and HIV.

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• Le Devoir writes about the discovery by a team led by Vladimir Titorenko, professor in the Department of Biology, of a naturally-produced substance that can destroy cancer cells without harming nearby healthy cells. The substance, lithocholic acid, is produced in the liver. Le Devoir examines Titorenko's research into the ageing process in a separate article.
• Le Devoir publishes a piece about sustainable investment and quotes Thomas Walker, associate professor in the Department of Finance, co-director of the David O’Brien Centre for Sustainable Enterprise and associate dean of research and research programs. Finance lecturer Amr Addas is also quoted. The paper mentions that JMSB offers a sustainable investment course at the undergraduate level as well as in its MBA program.
• Le Devoir  features Mémoires d'un avenir : dix utopies qui ont forgé le Québec (Éditions Nota bene, 2006), a summary report led by Jean-Philippe Warren, associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology in the Faculty of Arts and Science. The report focuses on the modern intellectual currents that have helped shaped Quebec.
• The Globe and Mail features Concordia's SOMEONE (SOcial Media EducatiON Every Day) project against hate speech and the project's initiator and lead researcher, Vivek Venkatesh, associate professor of education in the Faculty of Arts and Science. It mentions last Friday's conversation Venkatesh led with seniors in the city's Mercier neighbourhood, where participants were encouraged to express any mixed feelings about diversity. The piece is reprised by NewsCaf and Newzbaba.
• The Suburban joins media coverage of new Concordia research that describes how the anti-smoking drug Champix can be used to fight alcoholism by helping recovering alcoholics resist environmental and other  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.
• The New Indian Express writes about Social Life of a Bus, the documentary film by Govind Gopakumar about the public bus network in Bengaluru, India.
• Ching Y. Suen, professor in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, is featured in The Suburban as the co-editor of the book, Digital Fonts and Reading (World Scientific, 2016). The collection of essays examines the latest in digital literacy.
• MSN Actualités reprises a Radio-Canada.ca piece 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 populations. 
• Emily Kopley, the new Researcher-in-Residence at the Concordia Library, was a guest on CBC Radio Montreal's 'Daybreak this morning at 6:40. She discussed her role as researcher-in-residence and the work she will be doing at the Concordia Library. (no link available)

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