Montreal climate change. Bilingual babies. Charlottesville and the media. Quebec design pioneer. Seniors' brain health.
Concordia in the news
Posted on September 5, 2017
Researchers in the news
The scholarly work of Concordia faculty and researchers informs and improves society on many issues that affect our daily lives. Visit the Research section to read news stories involving research at Concordia, or read the most recent items here:
- There is continuing coverage of new Concordia climate change research warning 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 Journal de Montréal and the paper's e-edition (Nazemi, quoted throughout, is pictured), TVAnouvelles.ca, Science Daily, Product Design and Development, Public Now.
- Krista Byers-Heinlein, associate professor in the Department of Psychology in the Faculty of Arts and Science, was interviewed for the Journal Coverage Podcast about the study she co-authored on bilingualism in infants. The research, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, finds that children younger than two who grow up bilingual are able to sort out two languages on their own, simply by listening.
- Vanity Fair picks up a news brief referencing an analytical piece in the Washington Post co-written by Muhammed Idris, PERFORM postdoctoral fellow in data science, preventative health, and health policy at Concordia and co-founder of the Data Sciences Lab at the PERFORM Centre. The piece, based on the authors' research, focuses on media reports about the far-right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia and the attack on counter-protesters there.
- Le Devoir features the book, Julien Hébert, fondateur du design moderne au Québec (Éditions du passage), by Martin Racine, associate professor and graduate program director in the Department of Design and Computation Arts.
- Journal Le Nord reports that Le Quartier 50+, in St-Jérôme has been honoured by the senior's lifestyle magazine Bel Âge for its involvement in a project to research brain health in seniors. The research project, last fall, was led by Concordia's PERFORM Centre.