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• Two Concordia students, Teejay Bhalla and Summit Ollivierre, were featured guests on Global's 'Focus Montreal' this weekend for a discussion of the Concordia History 388 course, "Telling Stories," taught by Steven High of the Department of History in the Faculty of Arts and Science. High's students were given access to archives from Montreal’s Negro Community Centre (NCC) for a class research project. Bhalla and Ollivierre also touched on a free public event, set for tomorrow, April 11, showcasing the NCC archive. The History 388 course and tomorrow's NCC archive presentation were also the topic of discussion in an appearance on CBC Radio's 'Daybreak' this morning by Summit Ollivierre (no link available). 
• Le Devoir reports on a recent study co-written by Carsten Wrosh, professor in the Department of Psychology in the Faculty of Arts and science, and Andrée Castonguay, post-doctoral fellow in the same department. The researchers, working with kinesiologist Catherine Sabiston at the University of Toronto, explore the potentially beneficial effect of negative emotions on the medical outcome for breast cancer patients.
• The Montreal Gazette and Gazette e-edition report on the work of Vladimir Titorenklo, professor of biology in the Faculty of Arts and Science, and biology PhD candidate Kamal Bawa on new approaches to cancer treatment and prevention. It references related research led by Titorenko into the ageing process. The Gazette article is reprised on Press Reader and linked by Canada News.
• Le Réseau d'Information Municipale du Québec (behind a paywall) joins coverage of a study by Jochen Jaeger, associate professor of geography in Concordia’s Faculty of Arts and Science, and an international team of collaborators of the best methods to reduce road kill of animals, worldwide. Results of the study were recently published in the journal PLoS ONE.
• Forget the Box picks up news of Concordia's participation in a research initiative led by the City of Montreal to study and promote electrified and intelligent transportation. 
• The McGill Tribune writes about a recent research presentation by Soliman Abu-Samra, president of the Graduate Students’ Association (GSA) at Concordia and currently finishing his PhD in Civil Engineering. Abu-Samra's doctoral research is primarily focused on infrastructure asset management.

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