"The Next 150 on Indigenous Lands". Human Gut Microbiota. Tumbleweed. Rating roads for repair. MTL Trajet. Merck research funding.

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• Cherry Smiley, Communication Studies PhD student and Trudeau Scholar, was one of three scholars invited to participate in a public forum for CBC Radio's 'Ideas' program to discuss her research. Smiley's work is focused on the sexual exploitation of Indigenous women and girls and manifestations of colonial male violence and their impact. The CBC program was inspired by the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences at Ryerson in May and June and this year's Congress theme  —  "The Next 150 on Indigenous Lands". Listen to it in its entirety, here. Smiley is first heard at the 19-minute mark.
• Several publications pick up news of the findings of a group of undergraduates students who reviewed the primary literature and latest discoveries on the interactions between gut microbiota and the human host. The 106 biology students co-authored the study under the guidance of Chiara Gamberi, an affiliate assistant professor of biology and part-time faculty member in the Faculty of Arts and Science. The students' article, "Human Gut Microbiota: Toward an Ecology of Disease”, was published in Frontiers in Microbiology: Phys.org, Science Codex, Wire Service, Gears of Biz and AMEQ en ligne (behind a paywall).
• La Presse notes that Josip Novakovich, English professor in the Faculty of Arts and Science, is longlisted for this year's Scotiabank Giller literary prize for his short story collection, Tumbleweed (Véhicule Press).
• Agence Science-Presse (ASP) describes Concordia research that has produced a rating system for road repair projects. In a paper recently published in the Journal of Transportation Engineering, Tarek Zayed, professor in the Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering, PhD student Soliman Abu-Samra (quoted throughout the ASP article) and Concordia building engineering graduate Wael Tabra (MASc 10) describe a method of gauging where and when to carry out preventive road repair work.
• Direction Informatique writes about the launch by the City of Montreal of a second phase of its study of transportation in the city. It invites Montrealers to download the new version of the 'MTL Trajet' application (Apple Store and Google Play), developed at Concordia's Transportation Research for Integrated Planning (TRIP) lab.
• Healthcare News, writing about Merck Canada's latest research partnerships in Canada notes the 2011 funding announcement for research in different Canadian institutions, including Concordia and the university's Centre for Structural and Functional Genomics.

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