Shayana in school. Hanorah on stage. Bring Bissan home. Solar Decathlon. French-language proficiency. HP complaint. Yiara at five. Premier tour présidentiel.

Current students at Concordia do outstanding academic work and get involved in community projects that improve our quality of life. See what they've been up to:  

• Journal Métro features Concordia first year undergraduate student 'Shayana', a graduate of the Emmett Johns 'Dans la Rue' school and the first to pursue a post-secondary education following several periods of homelessness.
• Concordia student Lizzie Hanley (BFA, studio art), otherwise known by her stage name, 'Hanorah', appeared on the set of Global News Morning Montreal to talk about her experience as a contestant in this year's TVA talent competition, 'La Voix', where she is a quarter-finalist.She talks about her singing career and about her successful blind audition on the program, last month. Watch the full audition; The Suburban writes about Hanley's recent appearance as a special guest at the annual French for the Future Local Forum at FACE School, downtown.
• There has been heavy media coverage of last Thursday's news conference to alert the public to the predicament of Concordia graduate student Bissan Eid, a Canadian citizen who is unable to return to Canada from Gaza. Eid, who completed a bachelor's degree in civil engineering at Concordia in 2015 and is currently working on her master's here, wanted to return to Canada last December to give birth. She is now eight months pregnant, and still unable to obtain an exit permit from Israel. Eid's family is urging the Canadian government to get involved and the CSU has launched a social media campaign to press the demand : The Canadian Press (picked up by Montreal Gazette, LaPresse.ca, Le Journal de Montréal, TVAnouvelles.ca, The Globe and Mail, CBC.ca, CTVnews.ca, The Huffington Post, Metro News, Journal Métro, Canoe, MSN News, Yahoo! News, CJAD.com, Canada.com, Halifax Chronicle Herald, Cape Breton Post, Journal Pioneer, Ottawa Sun, The Toronto Star, The Chronicle Journal, Winnipeg Free Press, The Brandon Sun, Medicine Hat News, Edmonton Sun, Lethbridge Herald, Red Deer News Now, Victoria Times Colonist, Kelowna Daily Courier, Philippine Canadian Inquirer, Newscaf, National Observer), CTV Montreal News at Six (from 9:30), CBC Montreal News at 6:00 (from 10:30), Global News Montreal (video and text), The McGill Daily, Middle East Eye; Bissan Eid's father, Hadi Eid, who was on hand for Thursday's news conference at Concordia, was interviewed for Radio Canada International, which also posts a text story; News Journal Search posts a link to an online petition launched by the CSU to press for Eid's return to Canada.
• Architectural and graphic designer Thierry Syriani is interviewed for the Radio-Canada ICI Première Chaîne program, 'Les éclaireurs', about a joint Concordia/McGill student participation in the international Solar Decathlon, an ecological home design competition to be held next year in Dezhou, China. The Concordia/McGill Team Mtl is comprised of more than 50 students from Concordia's Faculties of Fine Arts, Engineering and Computer Science, and the John Molson School of Business and McGill's School of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering and Desautels Faculty of Management. 
• A CNW/Telbec release announces a news conference, this morning at 11 at the Concordia Student Union lounge, to announce an information campaign in support of international students who have been refused French-language competency certificates despite having passed Quebec government-accredited French-Language courses. 
• Concordia doctoral candidate Hamid Shirdastian (business administration) is featured in a CBC.ca story (reprised by Yahoo! News) relating Shirdastian's recent experience with HP Inc. when Shirdastian says he informed the IT product company of a possible hacking incident.
• Montreal Rampage writes about the fifth anniversary of Yiara, a Concordia student-run magazine featuring feminist visual art and written works by undergraduate students in Montreal. The article mentions a number of Yiara contributors, including communication studies doctoral candidate Magdalena Olszanowski, and Yiara editor-in-chief, Concordia student Amelia Wong-Mersereau.
• LaPresse.ca reports on a recent political information session ahead of the first round of the French presidential election, next Sunday, April 23. The event was organized by groups of French students at Concordia and McGill in response to an earlier information session that had been organized by the French nationalist Front National.

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