Solar Decathlon. School of Irish Studies. Gift of music.

Various issues concerning Concordia University are often reported on by news outlets. Here is the most recent coverage pertaining to the institution: 

• Several media provide coverage of the announcement by federal Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Catherine McKenna, of a $50,000 grant from Natural Resources Canada’s Program for Energy Research and Development (PERD) for a joint Concordia/McGill project. The grant will helpTeamMTL participate in the international Solar Decathlon, to be held next year in Dezhou, China. 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. The announcement is found in a release (Sys-Con Media) and is covered in LaPresse.ca, Journal Métro and McGill Reporter.
• The government of Ireland posts a news release describing a visit to Montreal by Irish Minister for Employment and Small Business Pat Breen during which the minister was briefed on Concordia's School of Irish Studies. It notes that the school has almost 1,000 students taking undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Irish history, culture, language and the economy: Public.
• Lien Multimédia reports the recent presentation of a piano as a gift to Concordia’s Faculty of Fine Arts by the Evenko Foundation for Emerging Talent. Among those pictured in the article is Montreal singer-songwriter Patrick Watson, who played the new piano for a group of Concordia fine arts students. 

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