Your toddler on TV. Montreal Signs Project. Lost Stories Project. Bus shelter redesign. Filmmaking gender divides. O'Toole must-read.

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• Several media join 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 can be linked to lower school readiness skills in kindergartners, notably in situations of poverty. Fitzpatrick worked with researchers at New York University. The findings were published in the Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics: Le Journal de Montréal, Le Journal de Québec, TVAnouvelles.ca, Science Daily, AMEQ en ligne (behind a paywall), Consumer Affairs, Wire Service, Marco. 
• The Montreal Gazette writes about the part played by Concordia's Montreal Signs Project in the restoration and display of an iconic sign, familiar to many in the NDG area of Montreal: the Elmhurst Dairy cow heads, which can now be seen on a wall at Parmalat Canada's dairy plant in NDG. Matt Soar, associate professor of Communication Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Science and director of the Signs Project, is quoted. 
• Acadie Nouvelle writes about plans for a film, to be directed by Concordia alumnus Julien Cadieux, to commemorate the 19th century leper colony on Sheldrake Island, at the mouth of New Brunswick's Miramichi River. It notes that the initiative is part of the 'Lost Stories' project, headed by Ronald Rudin, history professor in the Faculty of Arts and Science and co-director of the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling. The Lost Stories project will mark the 150th anniversary of Canadian Confederation, this year. 
• Italy's Professione Architetto writes about a competition to create new designs for bus shelters in the Mercier – Hochelaga-Maisonneuve borough. The competition is co-organized by the Concordia University Research Chair in Integrated Design, Ecology, And Sustainability (IDEAS) for the Built Environment, held by Carmela Cucuzzella, associate professor in the Department of Design and Computation Arts.
• The Montreal Gazette references a plan for a longitudinal cohort study involving SODEC and cinema students at Concordia. Male and female students will be tracked as they graduate and break into the filmmaking industry. Researchers will examine how gender discrimination may manifest itself.
• Irish Times columnist Martin Doyle includes Girls Will Be Girls (Orion), written by Emer O'Toole, assistant professor in the School of Irish Studies, in a list of books he says every man should read.

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