Intelligent transportation institute. Teen marijuana use. Aviation think tank. Water exhibition.

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• Traffic Technology Today and JBourbonnais.org pick up news of Concordia's participation in a research initiative led by the City of Montreal to study and promote electrified and intelligent transportation. The planned 'Institut de l'électrification et des transports intelligents' will be established in the Quartier de L'innovation, in which Concordia is a partner. 
• James McIntosh, professor of economics in the Faculty of Arts and Science, was a guest of Mutsumi Takahashi yesterday on CTV Montreal's news at noon. He discussed his research into the dangers to adolescents of early marijuana use.
• Isabelle Dostaler, management professor at the John Molson School of Business, talks toLaPresse.ca about the work of Concordia's aviation think tank, established last September, which she tells the paper is developing a model to study the competitiveness of airports. Dostaler, who leads the Concordia think tank, sounds a note of caution in the drive to privatize the country's airports.
• The Spokesman-Review announces that Linda Swanson, assistant professor of ceramics in the Faculty of Fine Arts, will exhibit pieces from her work at a water-themed art exhibition, on now in Spokane, Washington.

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