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• Numerous media join coverage of a new study co-authored by Peter Stoett, professor of political science in the Faculty of Arts and Science and director of the Loyola Sustainability Research Centre, that examines biodiversity in the Antarctic. Stoett and an interdisciplinary group of 22 other researchers illustrate how Antarctic biodiversity is under mounting pressure from tourism, climate change and transnational pollution. The study was published recently in PLOS Biology: Phys.Org, Business Standard, Laboratory Equipment, New Kerala, The Siasat Daily, La Razón (in Spanish).
• Two Concordia researchers are referenced in the April/May edition of Québec Science: on page 19, a brief description of a research project involving Concordia's Grant Brown, professor of biology in the Faculty of Arts and Science, who has developed a chemical barrier to migration of the sea lamprey — a harmful predator that continues to cause significant ecological damage in the Great Lakes. The study was conducted in collaboration with Istvan Imre of Algoma University and Nicholas Johnson of the United States Geological Survey and was published in Fisheries Management and Ecology; on page 52, Marc Lafrance is quoted in an article about the human skin as a source of psychological distress and about how skin affects our self-image and the image we project to others. The piece references research Lafrance is conducting on how adult acne impacts personal and professional relationships.  

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