Avoiding road kill. Teens and marijuana. Cool roof time machine.

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• Radio Canada International and Phys.Org feature 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. The collaborative research involved the analysis of available studies of the problem and concluded that fences reduce road kill by 54 per cent. Results of the study were recently published in the journal PLoS ONE.
• James McIntosh, professor of economics in the Faculty of Arts and Science, is interviewed for MedicalResearch.com about his research into the dangers to adolescents of early marijuana use. Please note:McIntosh will be a guest of Mutsumi Takahashi, at 12:30 pm tomorrow, on CTV Montreal news to discuss the research results.
• LaPresse.ca picks up coverage of Concordia's cool roof "time machine", which simulates roof soiling and weathering processes in the lab to accelerate the study of energy-conserving roofing materials. The process was developed by Hashem Akbari, professor in the Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering, in collaboration with researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

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