Guy microbiota. Rating road repairs. "Racism of photography".

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• Science Daily joins coverage of the findings of a group of Concordia undergraduate students who reviewed the primary literature and latest discoveries concerning gut microbiota and the microorganisms' interactions with human hosts. The 106 biology students co-authored the study, published in Frontiers in Microbiology, under the guidance of Chiara Gamberi, affiliate assistant professor of biology and part-time faculty member in the Faculty of Arts and Science. 
• Pieuvre reprises an earlier article from Agence Science-Presse describing Concordia research that has produced a rating system for road repair projects. The paper, recently published in the Journal of Transportation Engineering, was co-authored by 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).
• Achgut.com (in German) references a 2009 paper by Lorna Roth (“Looking at Shirley, the Ultimate Norm: Colour Balance, Image Technologies, and Cognitive Equity,” Canadian Journal of Communication) in an article about what the author of the piece says is the "racism of photography".

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