Climate change in Montreal. The Lost Stories Project. 'The Press and Slavery in America'.

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• Several media outlets report on new Concordia climate change research that warns of a growing variability of weather patterns and increasingly isolated weather occurrences in Montreal. The study, led by master's student Pablo Jaramillo and assistant professor Ali Nazemi in the Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering, was published in Sustainable Cities and Society: Le Réseau d'Information Municipale du Québec (behind a paywall), CJAD.com.
• University Affairs writes about the Concordia public art and documentary film initiative, the Lost Stories Project, led by Ronald Rudin, history professor in the Faculty of Arts and Science and co-director of Concordia’s Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling
• The book, The Press and Slavery in America, 1791-1859, written by Brian Gabrial, associate professor of journalism in the Faculty of Arts and Science, is referenced in a piece in the New York Daily News about a retired New York firefighter who is pressing for the city to rename a medal named after James Gordon Bennett, noted as a pro-slavery racist. Gabrial was interviewed for the article.  

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