Alternative energy. Your toddler on tv. Human book.
Concordia in the news
Posted on March 10, 2017
Researchers in the news
The scholarly work of Concordia faculty and researchers informs and improves society on many issues that affect our daily lives. Visit the Research section to read news stories involving research at Concordia, or read the most recent items here:
- Concordia's multidisciplinary Centre for Applied Synthetic Biology is featured in a piece in the Montreal Gazettefocusing on the centre's work on new sources of alternative energy, with the combined research efforts of biologists, chemists and engineers. The article includes quotes from Steve Shih, assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Pragasen Pillay, professor in the same department, and Adrian Tsang, biology professor in the Facultry of Arts and Science and director of Concordia's Centre for Structural and Functional Genomics. A video accompanying the story details Professor Pillay’s work on motors for electric vehicles.
- The World Economic Forum and Laboratory Equipment join continuing coverage of a study co-authored by Caroline Fitzpatrick, affiliate researcher at Concordia's PERFORM Centre, that describes how watching more than two hours a day of television can hamper school readiness skills in kindergartners, notably among poorer families. Fitzpatrick worked with researchers at New York University. The findings were published in the Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics.
- Le Devoir writes about the "human book" experience, currently being offered in the main hall of the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ), in collaboration with Concordia, through Dean of Students Andrew Woodall. Woodall is quoted about the human book project, where he helps recruit Concordia students hailing from other countries to sit face to face with "borrowers" at the BAnQ for a dialogue about their life experience as newly-arrived immigrants. The human book sessions take place every Thursday, from noon to three-thirty, through the end of March.