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• AZO Clean Tech, Chem Europe and  Decentralized Energy join 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 describes how certain bacteria that thrive in colder temperatures can be used to convert solid food waste into renewable energy and organic fertilizer. The study was published in Process Safety and Environmental Protection.
• Marketing MBA student Eric Martineau (MSc '12 marketing, Certificate '11 Web Design) is interviewed by Mutsumi Takahashi on CTV Montreal's 'News at Noon'. He talks about the research he conducted for his 2012 master's thesis, supervised by Zeynep Arsel, associate professor of marketing, focusing on crowdsourcing and how it impacts the way business is conducted. A paper based on the thesis was published in the Journal of the Association for Consumer Research.
• Public (France) posts a summary of a study of bilingualism and its impact on the cognitive abilities of small children, led by Krista Byers-Heinlein, associate professor of psychology and Concordia University Research Chair in Bilingualism, in the Faculty of Arts and Science. The article links to the original research release.
• CBC.ca references a recent study by Jochen Jaeger, associate professor in the Department of Geography, Planning & the Environment, in the Faculty of Arts and Science, and an international team of collaborators of the best methods to reduce road kill of animals. 
• Muslim Link posts an invitation for participants in a research project  — “Meaningful Journeys: Religion and Spirituality in Muslim Migration to Canada” —  being led by Lynda Clark, professor in the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture, and Linda Darwish, professor of religious studies at St. Francis Xavier University. 

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