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Experiencing Trauma In Childhood Linked To Increased Risk Of Developing Dementia
Alisa Lincoln, Director of the Institute for Health Equity and Social Justice Research at Northeastern University in Boston, hopes the evidence is enough to spur health care practitioners to acknowledge the longitudinal effects of ACEs—and to put more support and interventions in place to both prevent and treat them.
What’s in a Name? Why WHO’s Formal Name for the New Coronavirus Disease Matters
If the new name had included a reference to Wuhan it would put a “tremendous stigmatization on the people of Wuhan who are the victims” of the disease, Wendy Parmet, a law professor at Northeastern University and public health expert, tells TIME.
Science Focus
Warming oceans drive almost 60 per cent drop in chinstrap penguin population
The researchers from Stony Brook University and Northeastern University in the US joined a Greenpeace expedition to the region, and surveyed chinstrap penguins on the important habitat of Elephant Island.
PayPal funds academic research on illegal firearms transactions
The research will be led by Dr. Anthony Braga, director of the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northeastern and an expert on the subject of gun violence and reducing illegal access to firearms.
The Irish Times
Chinstrap penguin numbers fall as climate change bites
The researchers from Stony Brook University and Northeastern University in the US joined a Greenpeace expedition to the region, and surveyed chinstrap penguins on the important habitat of Elephant Island.
The Seattle Times
AI is here to stay, but are we sacrificing safety and privacy? A free public Seattle U course will explore that
The public’s desire for more guidance around AI may be reflected in a recent Northeastern University and Gallup survey that found only 22% of U.S. respondents believed colleges or universities were adequately preparing students for the future of work.
How Fear Distorts Our Thinking About the Coronavirus
David DeSteno, a professor of psychology at Northeastern University and a visiting fellow at Harvard’s Center for Public Leadership, is the author of “Emotional Success: The Power of Gratitude, Compassion, and Pride.”
Evening Standard UK
Antarctic penguin colonies decline by more than 75 per cent in 50 years
Researchers from Stony Brook University and Northeastern University in the US joined a Greenpeace expedition to the region, and surveyed chinstrap penguins on the important habitat of Elephant Island.
Penguin Colonies Are Shrinking in Antarctica Due to Climate Change
This year, scientists from Stony Brook University in New York and Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, are surveying penguin colonies using manual and drone surveying techniques on Low Island, further south, for the first time.
Number of chinstrap penguins in Antarctica has fallen sharply: scientists
“The declines that we’ve seen are definitely dramatic,” said Steve Forrest, a conservation biologist who joined a team of scientists from the two U.S. universities of Stony Brook and Northeastern on an Antarctic expedition that has just ended.
Some Antarctic penguin colonies have declined by more than 75% over 50 years
The researchers, from Stony Brook and Northeastern University in Boston, also used manual and drone techniques to survey a series of large but relatively unknown chinstrap penguin colonies on Low Island in the South Shetland Islands, north of the Antarctic Peninsula.
The Times UK
Climate change puts penguins in decline on Shackleton’s Elephant Island
Scientists from Stony Brook University and Northeastern University in the US found that the number of chinstrap penguins on the island had more than halved, from 122,550 breeding pairs 50 years ago to 52,786 today.