Pathways of kidney disease. 13 Reasons Why. Aviation think tank. Smartphone travel mapping. Seniors' brain on exercise. A macaque is born.

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• Coverage appears in numerous media of research led by Chiara Gamberi, who has worked with fruit flies to develop a model to further our understanding of kidney disease and open new avenues to kidney disease treatment. The study, conducted in collaboration with researchers at Université de Montréal, was published recently in PLOS Genetics: Science Daily, Medical Xpress, Bel Marra Health, News Medical, AMEQ en ligne (behind a paywall), NewsCaf, Wire Service.
• Erin O'Loughlin, Public Scholar and PhD candidate in health and exercise psychology at Concordia, joins the discussion of the television adaptation of the controversial book, 13 Reasons Why and how it deals with suicide among youths. O'Louglin writes in an op-ed piece in the Montreal Gazette that parents, educators and others must lend greater credence to expressions by young people of suicidal thoughts. She references a study she worked on that examined the correlations between suicide ideation, mental health diagnoses and substance use.
• Commerce Monde features the new Aviation Think Tank at Concordia, created last September. The think tank, inspired by the work of management professor Isabelle Dostaler, who serves as its academic director, focuses on aviation industry innovation and policy formulation. 
• The Quebec government's Chief Scientist office presents the work of Zachary Patterson, associate professor in the Department of Geography, Planning and the Environment in the Faculty of Arts and Science, on an application that uses smartphones to track people as they travel around the city. The tool was developed by a team at Concordia's Transportation Research for Integrated Planning (TRIP) lab, led by Patterson. 
• Le Mirabel writes about a 2010 Concordia research project led by the PERFORM Centre’s Louis Behrer, psychology professor in the Faculty of Arts and Science. The study examined the benefits to seniors' cognitive health of physical activity.
• La Nouvelle Union, joining coverage of the recent birth by caesarean section of a Japanese macaque at Granby Zoo, mentions a 2016 Concordia study of the behaviour of captive macaques at the zoo. The study was conducted by Emily Anderson for her master's thesis in the Department of Biology. 

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