Small Fires honours. Nursing home killer. Canadian visa. Sometimes it's rocket science. Shakespeare in the park.

Current students at Concordia do outstanding academic work and get involved in community projects that improve our quality of life. See what they've been up to:  

• Concordia PhD student Kelly Norah Drukker is featured in a piece in Donegal Now, which notes that Drukker has received both the Concordia University First Book Prize and the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry for her first collection of poems, Small Fires, (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2016). 
• The National Observer publishes a piece co-written by doctoral candidate Trish Audette-Longo (communication studies) pertaining to Ontario nurse Elizabeth Wettlaufer's confession to murdering eight nursing home residents.
• The Antigua Daily Observer, reporting on confusion it says was caused by a Canadian visa requirement for Antiguans visiting, working or studying in Canada, quotes an unnamed Concordia student who tells how he avoided the need to apply for a Canadian visa.
• Space.com reports that a team of Concordia students won an honorable mention in the Space Dynamics Laboratory Payload Challenge at the recent Spaceport America Cup rocket engineering competition in New Mexico.
• The Suburban writes that Concordia undergraduate Tiernan Cornford is playing with the Repercussions Theatre in its annual Shakespeare-in-the-Park tour. 

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