Learning Toolkit+. Gut microbiota. Behavioural therapy for chronic insomnia. TeamMTL.

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• AMEQ en ligne (behind a paywall) picks up a release listing the recommendations of the Quebec government's consultative committee on the economy and innovation. The committee recommends funding a version of the free interactive platform Learning Toolkit+ (TLK+) to boost adult literacy. The new digital platform, drawing on TLK+ component software programs ABRACADABRA and READS, will be developed by researchers in Concordia’s Centre for the Study of Learning and Performance (CSLP), led by Philip Abrami, Concordia University Research Chair and professor in and director of the CSLP, and by researchers at UQAM.  The committee's recommendations are reported also by Actualités UQAM.
• The Australian publishes a brief about the findings of a group of Concordia undergraduate students who reviewed the primary literature concerning gut microbiota and their 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. 
• Thien Thanh Dang-Vu, professor and Concordia University Research Chair in Sleep, Neuroimaging and Cognitive Health in the Center for Studies in Behavioral Neurobiology, in the Faculty of Arts and Science, is quoted throughout an article in M.D. Alert about his study of patients' response to certain cognitive behavioral therapy for chronic insomnia. Dang-Vu co-wrote the study with Jean-Philippe Gouin, associate professor of psychology in the Faculty of Arts and Science, and researchers at Concordia's PERFORM Centre.
• La Presse reprises an article about the TeamMTL entry in the Solar Decathlon China 2018 in Dezhou, China. The solar-energy dwelling was designed and assembled by Concordia and McGill students and faculty.

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