Electric car shocker. Cold conversion. Plan Bee. Coriolis II. Social media and refugees. Market performance. Soar saves Solari signs.

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• The Municipal Information Network joins coverage of new research led by Ian Irvine, professor of economics in the Faculty of Arts and Science, that examines government incentives to promote the sale of electric vehicles. In the study, recently published in Canadian Public Policy, Irvine concludes that electric vehicle subsidies may work at cross purposes with existing fuel-efficiency subsidies for conventional vehicles.
• Le Réseau d'Information Municipale du Québec (behind a paywall) and Product Design & Development pick up coverage of new research by Mohammad Saifur Rahaman, associate professor in Concordia’s Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering (BCEE), and researchers at Bio-Terre Systems Inc., that examines how certain bacteria that thrive in colder temperatures convert solid food waste into renewable energy and organic fertilizer. The study was published in Process Safety and Environmental Protection.
• CTV News Montreal reports, with video and text, on a research project led by Jean-Philippe Lessard, assistant professor of biology in the Faculty of Arts and Science, and Sergio Vega, a beekeeper and biology graduate student. The project involves identifying a bee that could help in the pollination work of honeybee populations, under increasing pressure from pesticides, parasites and other threats. Lessard appears at the 1:33 mark. The text version of the story is picked up by CJAD.com.
• Radio-Canada.ca (Bas Saint-Laurent) writes about the departure, this morning, of the Université du Québec à Rimouski research vessel, 'Le Coriolis II', on a nine-day research mission to examine acidification of surface water in the St-Lawrence estuary. It quotes Yves Gélinas, professor and Concordia University Research Chair in Environmental Chemistry, in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry in the Faculty of Arts and Science. Gélinas is one of 13 university researchers on the mission. 
• Qui Fait Quoi features the research work of Nadia Naffi, PhD candidate in education technology, on social media representations of Syrian refugees.
• The UCI (University of California, Irvine) news service references a research paper relating to stock market performance, co-authored by Jooseop Lim, associate professor of marketing at the John Molson School of Business, Imram Currim at UCI and Yu Zhang at the China Europe International Business School in Shanghai. The news release is picked up by Public.
• True Viral News features Matt Soar, associate professor of Communication Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Science, and his work on the Montreal Signs Project at Concordia. The piece focuses on the rescue by Soar of 'Solari' arrival and departure display panels from Mirabel airport.

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