Flood preparedness. Flooded by climate change. Hasidic Jewish community. Extreme right in Quebec. Ready-to-cook. Star student. Religion in Canada.

Concordia faculty and researchers are regularly asked to offer expert, informed opinions on many of today's most pressing problems. Read some of the latest news items about Concordians:

• Numerous media call on Pascale Biron, professor in the Department of Geography, Planning & the Environment in the Faculty of Arts and Science, for her perspective on the flooding in different regions of Quebec and on the level of civil security preparedness in the province: The Globe and Mail (reprised by NewsCaf),CJAD.com, 24News.ca, Canada News, 680News.com, News95.7.com, The Waterloo Record, RDI le matin (no link available), Radio-Canada Outaouais 'Sur le vif' (no link available), Radio Canada's 'Gravel le matin' (May 11 edition, through the link, "7h23 Inondations: Entrevue avec Pascale Biron, professeure à l'Université Concordia"), TVA Nouvelles émission spéciale (no link available), LCN (May 13, 10:10 am, no link available), Radio-Canada 'Faut pas croire tout ce qu'on dit' (through the link, "Entrevue avec Pascale Biron spécialiste en hydro-géomorphologie"),RadioCanadaInternational.ca (in Spanish), Radio-Canada Trois-Rivières (radio, no link available). Please note:Biron will appear on TVA with Mario Dumont on Wednesday, May 17.
• CJAD.com talks to Jeannine-Marie St-Jacques, assistant professor in the Department of Geography, Planning & the Environment, about the flooding, which she links, in part, to climate change.
• Ira Robinson, professor of religion and director of the Concordia Institute for Canadian Jewish Studies, is quoted in an article in LaPresse.ca about the Hasidic Jewish community in Outremont. Robinson was quoted from a presentation he made at the Congrès de l’Association francophone pour le savoir (Acfas), which wrapped up last Friday at McGill.
• LaPresse.ca quotes Vivek Venkatesh, associate professor of Education in the Faculty of Arts and Science and director of Concordia's SOMEONE initiative, from his participation in a panel discussion last Friday at the Acfas conference of the presence in Quebec of extreme-right groups. The article also references Education Department lecturer Tieja Thomas (PhD, education, 2015).
• Jordan Le Bel, associate professor of marketing in the John Molson School of Business, is quoted in a Radio-Canada.ca piece about the growing popularity of ready-to-cook meals.
• Suzanne Reisler Litwin, instructor in the Centre for Continuing Education, writes a piece in The Suburban profiling one of her creative writing students, Roberta Terry.
• The University of Ottawa Gazette previews "Restorying Canada: Reconsidering Religion and Public Memory" — a three-day conference on religion and its impact on Canada's political and cultural evolution, co-organized by Hillary Kaell, associate professor of religions and cultures in the Faculty of Arts and Science. The conference is set for May 18 to 20 in Ottawa.

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