Public Scholars' opinions. In search of Expo 67. Crypto-market. Smartwear.

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• Lucinda Chodan, editor-and-chief of the Montreal Gazette, publishes a note in the 'Editor's notebook' describing the paper's partnership with Concordia’s Public Scholars Program. The partnership involves the publication of opinion pieces by each of the ten Public Scholars for 2017-18. The series was launched on Monday with the publication of op-eds by humanities doctoral candidate Alex McClelland ('Research participants should have right to confidentiality') and health and exercise psychology doctoral candidate Erin O'Loughlin ('Exergaming is kids' screen time parents can feel good about').
• Monika Kin Gagnon, professor of communication studies in the Faculty of Arts and Science and co-director of the CinemaExpo67 research team at Concordia, is interviewed on Radio Canada International about the exhibition, 'In Search of Expo 67', celebrating Expo 67's 50th anniversary. The exhibition, opening today at the Musée d'art contemporain (MAC) de Montréal and running through October 8, was co-curated by Gagnon and Lesley Johnstone, head of exhibitions at the MAC. The Expo 67 exhibition is also announced in a CNW release, picked up by Nation Talk, TMC News and Le Lézard.
• Econo Times reprises a release announcing a research partnership between Concordia and the crypto-market datafeed platform, Santiment, to examine the factors that can influence cryptocurrency prices. 
• Joanna Berzowska, associate professor in the Department of Design and Computation Arts, is referenced in aFinancial Post article featuring Montreal smartwear company, OMsignal, where Berzowska is director of electronic textiles operations.

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