Music is medicine

Health Services teams up with jazz legend Vic Vogel to help Cuba

By Russ Cooper

Left to right: NeoRhino party and CUBEC Libre movement leader François Yo Gourd, Health Services’ Melanie Drew, musician Vic Vogel, Cuban Consul General Sergio Vélez Camhi, and Vogel’s manager Bob Pover at Meldrum the Mover’s NDG warehouse on Jan. 6

It wasn’t until Jan. 6 that Health Services Director Melanie Drew and legendary pianist and big band arranger Vic Vogel had a chance to meet in person. Until then, while their relationship had been strictly through email and phone, it had been nothing but personal. Strolling into Meldrum the... - Read more

Cool roofs, cool research

By Russ Cooper

Hashem Akbari

In the deep freeze of winter, it may seem a bit odd to be talking about bringing the temperature of the city down, but for engineering professor Hashem Akbari, it’s more than a hot topic. Akbari, who joined Concordia in June 2009 as Building, Civil and Environmental Professor and a future Hydro-Quebec Research Chair, is studying the urban heat... - Read more

New prof back on campus

Globetrotting MPPPA grad focuses on communities and youth

By Anna Sarkissian

Natasha Blanchet- Cohen

To say that Natasha Blanchet-Cohen has experience abroad would be an under-statement; she was born in Lesotho, grew up in Bangladesh, studied in Quebec, Ontario and British Columbia, and traveled and worked in Venezuela, Mexico, Russia and Thailand. She’s... - Read more

Warming up the chilly season

International students celebrate together far from home

Each year, Concordia helps international students adapt to their home away from home by hosting a holiday feast for those students who are facing the holidays without family, many for the first time. On December 23, more than 250... - Read more

ePearl to shine at Congress 2010

Montreal high school students and CSLP investigating human rights

Wade and Schmid.

For the 2010 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Montreal high school students will be enlightening delegates with multimedia presentations tackling human rights issues using software created here at Concordia. Students from Westmount High School, Royal West Academy... - Read more