Homa Hoodfar book launch. Cool roof time machine. Engineering gender gap. Karma Chameleon smartwear. Your brain on stairs.
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Posted on March 23, 2017
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- Numerous media are picking up coverage of the launch of Concordia professor emerita Homa Hoodfar's latest book, Women’s Sport as Politics in Muslim Contexts, printed in December 2015 by London-based charity Women Living Under Muslim Laws. The Canadian launch of the book, yesterday at the Webster Library, was delayed by Hoodfar's incarceration in Iran last year: CBC.ca (quoting Hoodfar from an earlier interview on CBC Montreal's 'Homerun', with the CBC text reprised by Yahoo! News, My Informs and News Club and linked by World News Network and Scoopnest), Radio Canada International (reprised by Canada News), Montreal Gazette and theGazette e-edition (reprised by Social Feed). The article in The Gazette is promoted on the front page above the fold.
- Several media outlets are reporting on Concordia's "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: Phys.org, The Science Times, 4-traders, AMEQ en ligne (behind a paywall).
- Nature reports on a new study of the gender gap in the field of engineering. The statistical study, led by doctoral candidate Gita Ghiasi, describes a trend where female engineers appear to garner less attention than their male counterparts, despite publishing in more journals.
- India Retailing showcases smartwear from around the world and references the "Karma Chamelon" dress, developed at Concordia through the Karma Chameleon project, led by Joanna Berzowska, associate professor in the Department of Design and Computation Arts and founding director of XS Labs at Concordia.
- Real Simple (reprised by Yahoo! News) references the Concordia study, led by PERFORM Centre researcher Jason Steffener, that shows how education and simple physical activity such as taking the stairs can significantly slow the rate of ageing of the brain. The study findings were published in Neurobiology of Aging.