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Concordia in the news
Posted on February 3, 2017
University affairs
Various issues concerning Concordia University are often reported on by news outlets. Here is the most recent coverage pertaining to the institution:
- Concordia student Julien Rose Johnson and Gabrielle Bouchard of the Concordia Centre for Gender Advocacy are quoted in a GlobalNews.ca report on gender-neutral washrooms at the university and complaints that the washrooms are too few and difficult to find. The story is reprised by NewsCaf.
- Concordia's Department of Journalism in the Faculty of Arts and Science is profiled in Best-Journalism-Schools.org.
- The Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution posts an invitation for applications for a doctoral or masters student to assist Dylan Fraser, associate professor of biology in the Faculty of Arts and Science, on a collaborative research project involving the study of brook trout populations in Cape Race, Newfoundland.
- The Montreal Gazette republishes an article (reprised by Brazil Business Today) that first appeared in the paper on February 1, 1996 about a proposed pedestrian mall for Concordia that would have seen a one-block stretch of McTavish, from a little below Sherbrooke Street down to de Maisonneuve, permanently closed to cars and trucks. Jonathan Carruthers, who was president of the CSU in 1996, was quoted.