Cold conversion. History of video games. Ideal teacher. Urban sprawl. Tablets in class. Duplessis and other orphans. Solar bus shelter.

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• Waste Dive picks up news 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.
• Le Devoir features Darren Wershler, associate professor of English and Concordia University Research Chair, Media & Contemporary Literature, Tier 2, in the Faculty of Arts and Science. The piece focuses on Wershler's collection of video game consoles and his work to chronicle the history of video games. 
• Education Week Teacher writes about recent research, published in Teaching and Teacher Education, into popular perceptions of the 'ideal' teacher. The study, led by Sandra Chang-Kredl, assistant professor of education in the Faculty of Arts and Science, and recent graduate Daniela Colannino (MA 16, child studies), examines popular representations of teachers on the social media platform, Reddit.
• Le Devoir references a 2016 study of urban sprawl, co-authored by Jochen Jaeger, associate professor in the Department of Geography, Planning and Environment.
• Standard Media (Kenya) references a study led by researchers at Concordia's Centre for the Study of Learning and Performance — education professor Eugene Borokhovski,  Dr David Pickup and Dr. Robert Bernard — and Zayed University education professor Rana Tamim. The study in question examined the impact of electronic tablets on students' classroom performance.
• Reports are filed on several CBC platforms about an initiative led by music composer Alyssa Ryvers, who worked with Concordia's Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling on a project to have Quebec and Irish orphans share their stories of abuse from their childhood in orphanages operated by the Catholic Church in Quebec and in Ireland: CBC's The National, CBC Radio's The World this Weekend, CBC.ca (reprised by MSN News). The video conference was reported also by Irish Central.
• An Evensi release announces an exhibition of the leading entries in the recent CoLLaboratoire solar bus shelter design competition at Concordia. The event takes place next Monday, June 12, behind the bus shelter on the Loyola campus.

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