In utero environment. SOMEONE project. Lamprey invasion. Cool roof time machine. Jazz performance. FOFA show. CO2 is a thing.

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• Santé Log joins coverage of research into early brain development that describes how the in utero environment can play a role in the development of brain processes in adolescents. The study, published in Human Brain Mapping, was led by Linda Booij, associate professor of psychology in Concordia’s Faculty of Arts and Science, in collaboration with researchers from CHU Sainte-Justine.
• Vivek Venkatesh, associate professor of education in the Faculty of Arts and Science, was interviewed on CJAD Radio, last Thursday morning (no link available). He talked about Concordia's SOMEONE (SOcial Media EducatiON Every Day) project against hate speech. Venkatesh is the initiator of SOMEONE and is the project's lead researcher.
• Grant Brown, professor of biology in the Faculty of Arts and Science, was interviewed last Friday morning on local CBC radio in Quebec City (no link available) about a new collaborative research project involving Algoma University and the United States Geological Survey. Brown and his colleagues have developed a chemical barrier to migration of the sea lamprey — a predator harming native fish stocks in the Great Lakes. The study was published inFisheries Management and Ecology.
• R&D Mag features the "cool roof time machine" — the "R&D 100" award winner for 2016. The cool roof time machine simulates roof soiling and weathering processes in the lab to accelerate the study of energy-conserving roofing materials. The process was developed by Hashem Akbari, professor in the Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering, in collaboration with researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
• A Wire Service release announces that trumpet player Charles Ellison, associate professor in the Department of Music, will participate in a jazz performance at the Dièse Onze Jazz club in Montreal, on Friday, March 10. 
• Rats de Ville announces a show of the art work of four Concordians at the Faculty of Fine Arts (FOFA) Gallery, opening today and on through the month of March: studio arts assistant professor Surabhi Ghosh, photography instructor and alumna Jessica Auer (MFA, 2007), MFA student Natalie Nadeau and doctoral candidate Victor Arroyo.
• Damon Matthews, associate professor in the Department of Geography, Planning and Environment, Faculty of Arts and Science, is featured in Le Devoir, where he talks about his research on CO2 emissions and climate change. Matthews relates his work to the arrival in Washington of a climate change sceptic as president.

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