Asylum seekers. Baby religions. Trump effect in the workplace. Venezuela unrest.

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:

• Mireille Paquet, assistant professor in the Department of Political Science in the Faculty of Arts and Science, is interviewed by Public Radio International (heard at the 33-second mark) and is quoted in a text version of the story about the hundreds of asylum-seekers who are being sheltered in the Olympic Stadium. The text version is picked up by The Spectrum, Cape and Islands, KWBU.org and Delmarva Public Radio. Singapore's Straits Timesreprises an earlier New York Times article quoting Paquet about the asylum seekers and she is quoted in twoJunior College articles about the influx of asylum seekers, here and here.
• The Atlantic quotes Susan Palmer, affiliate professor of religions and cultures in the Faculty of Arts and Science, in a piece about "baby religions." The article is reprised by True Viral News and Singapore News Tribe.
• NBCnews.com posts a story online about shifting social norms in the workplace in the era of Donald Trump and quotes Seth Spain, assistant professor of management in the John Molson School of Business. Spain suggests that Trump serves as a negative role model for people at work who note that the U.S. president doesn't appear to suffer immediate consequences for bad behaviour.
• Jean-François Mayer, associate professor of political science in the Faculty of Arts and Science and co-founder of the Latin American Studies Network of Montreal, is interviewed for the Radio-Canada première chaîne program, 'Les samedis du monde.' Mayer, speaking at the 1:20 mark, talks about the continuing political unrest and violence in Venezuela.

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