Asylum seekers. Transgender children. Your brain on oranges. Botswana party politics.

Concordia faculty and researchers are regularly asked to offer expert, informed opinions on many of today's most pressing problems. Read some of the latest news items about Concordians:

• The Qatar Tribune reprises a New York Times article (August 10, 2017) quoting Mireille Paquet, assistant professor in the Department of Political Science in the Faculty of Arts and Science, about the hundreds of asylum-seekers who have been sheltered in Montreal's Olympic Stadium; the BBC posts an excerpt of a PRI (Public Radio International) interview with Paquet on the same subject. 
• Kimberley Manning, Simone de Beauvoir Institute principal and associate professor of political science in the Faculty of Arts and Science, talks to CBC Radio's 'Seat at the Table' about raising a transgender child.
• MSN Health reprises a Châtelaine article quoting PERFORM Centre scientist Matthew Parrott about recent Japanese research into a link between consumption of citrus fruits and improved brain health.
• The Botswana Weekend Post features Amy Poteete, associate professor of political science in the Faculty of Arts and Science, in an article about an internal struggle for control of Botswana's break-away opposition party, Botswana Movement for Democracy. Poteete recently wrote an analytical piece in Mmegi Online about the political infighting.

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