Smartwear from XS. The ageing process. Protection from cyberattack. Immigrants bonding.
Concordia in the news
Posted on April 19, 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:
- Actualités UQAM reports on a recent conference at UQAM where Joanna Berzowska, assistant professor of design and computation arts and associate dean of research in the Faculty of Fine Arts, presented her work on textiles and smartwear at Concordia's XS Labs, where she is research director.
- Buzz 4 Bio links to an earlier piece on a French government website describing research led by Vladimir Titorenko, professor of biology in the Faculty of Arts and Science, on the ageing process and how it is regulated.
- Metering & Smart Energy International talks to Mourad Debbabi, professor at the Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering (CIISE) about the five-year, $2.1-million grant to Concordia researchers working on a system to protect Hydro Quebec's smart power grid from cyber attack. The team is led by Debbabi, principal chairholder of the Senior Industrial Research Chair in Smart Grid Security, Detection, Prevention, Mitigation and Recovery from Cyber-Physical Attacks.
- Agence Science-Presse reports on a study, conducted by Concordia graduate Marina Doucerain (PhD '15), describing the importance for newly-arrived immigrants of forming friendships with people within their new mainstream cultural group. Doucerain's research, carried out as part of her PhD dissertation with Concordia’s INDI program, was published in Personal and Social Psychology Bulletin.