Your toddler on TV. Blockchain. Indigenous Futures. Imprimés Interdits. Cognition difficulty. Jeri Brown collaboration.
Concordia in the news
Posted on March 6, 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:
- There is continuing coverage of a study co-authored by Caroline Fitzpatrick, affiliate researcher at Concordia's PERFORM Centre, that describes how watching more than a couple of hours a day of television is linked to lower school readiness skills in kindergartners. Fitzpatrick worked with researchers at New York University: Tech Times, Futurity, WSFA.com/, The Missouri Injury Blog.
- Profit Guide joins the media picking up a Canadian Press article about blockchain database technology, quoting Jeremy Clark, assistant professor in the Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering. The piece references Clark's research interest in the use of blockchains in electronic voting systems.
- Vice Video posts an interview montage with Skawennati, coordinator of the Milieux Indigenous Futures research cluster and co-director of Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace (AbTeC). Skawennati discusses her work at AbTeC.
- Le Devoir reviews Imprimés Interdits: La censure des journaux jaunes au Québec, 1955-1975 (Septentrion, 2017), the new book about "yellow journalism" in Quebec, by Viviane Namaste, professor in the Simone de Beauvoir Institute of the Faculty of Arts and Science.
- Lien Multimédia previews a talk, Sunday, March 12 at 12:30 p.m. at the Centaur Theatre, by neuropsychologist Natalie Phillips, professor of psychology in the Faculty of Arts and Science and member of the Centre for Research in Human Development at Concordia. Phillips will discuss her research findings relating to cognition difficulties in Alzheimer's disease. The event will be followed by a stage presentation of the François Archambault play, You Will Remember Me.
- Audiophile Audition, writing about a new cd by guitarist and composer Baron Tymas, states that Tymas recorded the tracks on the CD at the Oscar Peterson Concert Hall, and featured the voice of Jeri Brown, associate professor in the Department of Music. The CD is titled "Self".