Boehringer family meeting. Peddling away stress. Gut microbiota. Promoting the electric car.

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• Bloomberg (reprised by OIA News) quotes Jim Pfaus, psychology professor in the Faculty of Arts and Science, in an article about German drugmaker Boehringer Ingelheim. Pfaus recalls meeting with members of the Boehringer family to discuss funding of human clinical trials of a sexual dysfunction drug for women.
• The Island (Sri Lanka) reports on the recent study from the John Molson School of Business of the stress-reducing effect of cycling to work and of a resulting improvement in worker productivity. The study, published in the International Journal of Workplace Health Management, was led by Stéphane Brutus, professor of management and RBC Professor of Motivation and Employee Performance, associate professor of management Alexandra Panaccio and JMSB research assistant Roshan Javadian (MSc 14,).
• Frontiers in Microbiology publishes a review article describing a third-year Concordia microbiology class project to study the interactions between a human host and its gut microbiota. The class participants are listed in the study byline.
• Enerzine describes recent research led by Ian Irvine, professor of economics in the Faculty of Arts and Science, that examined government incentives to promote the sale of electric vehicles. In the study, published in Canadian Public Policy, Irvine concludes that electric vehicle subsidies may work at cross purposes with existing fuel-efficiency subsidies for conventional vehicles.

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