Doomsday. German elections. Montreal election campaign. Wellbeing conference. Pub ban violations.

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:

• Lorenzo DiTommaso, professor of religions and cultures in the Faculty of Arts and Science, is quoted in aNewsweek piece about the latest doomsday prediction.
• Antoine Rayroux, assistant professor of political science in the Faculty of Arts and Science, appeared on the set ofRDI Économie for a discussion with show host Gérald Fillion of the German economic model under Chancellor Angela Merkel. Scroll down to the bottom of the show page to find last Friday's program. The Rayroux segment begins at the 15:30 mark. Please note: Rayroux will appear on CTV Montreal's News at Noon on Wednesday to talk about Sunday's German elections.
• Harold Chorney, professor of political science in the Faculty of Arts and Science, appears in a CTV Montreal news report (at the 2:25 mark) and is quoted in a CTVnews.ca text piece about Friday's launch of mayoral election campaigns in Quebec and Denis Coderre's re-election bid.
• Le Soleil de Châteauguay writes that Sarah Milis, part-time instructor of creative arts therapies in the Faculty of Fine Arts, will be a guest speaker at a wellbeing conference at Manoir D'Youville, in Châteauguay, this Thursday evening, September 28. 
• The Ottawa Citizen quotes Alan Conter, lecturer in the Department of Journalism in the Faculty of Arts and Science, in a piece about court-ordered publication bans and their possibly-inadvertent violation through Google news searches.

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