Expensive meds. C-16. Autism pool danger. Mural festival.

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:

• NBCnews.com, WXXV-Fox and Daily Inter Lake  reprise an op-ed from The New York Times quoting Lea Prevel Katsanis, marketing professor in the John Molson School of Business, about pressing for rollbacks in prescription drug prices.
• Huffington Post Canada picks up an opinion piece from the Montreal Gazette of June 7, co-authored by Kimberley Manning, principal of the Simone de Beauvoir Institute and associate professor of political science in the Faculty of Arts and Science, and Elizabeth J. Meyer, associate dean of teacher education at the University of Colorado at Boulder.  Manning and Meyer, writing about bullying of transgender youth in schools, urge the Canadian Senate to pass Bill C-16 on transgender identity and rights.
• Local Xpress runs an opinion piece by Simone de Beauvoir Institute research associate Kathleen O'Grady, who writes about the elevated risk of drowning among people on the autism spectrum.  The piece was reprised from The Globe and Mail of June 4.
• Le Devoir, writing about the 5th Mural street art festival, underway in Montreal, quotes Anna Waclawek, coordinator in the Department of Art History in the Faculty of Fine Arts.

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