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Stephen Flynn, founding director of the Global Resilience Institute, underscored the institute’s commitment to advancing the health, security, and sustainability of communities around the world. “We’re harnessing the research going on around the entire university and bringing it together to meet this imperative,” he said. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University

Scholars’ ‘flash talks’ explore resilience, from health to media innovation

More than a dozen faculty members, doctoral students, and visiting scholars gave lighting-fast overviews of their community resilience research on Monday afternoon as part of a TED-style event hosted by Northeastern’s Global Resilience Institute. Here, we share some highlights.

by Jason Kornwitz November 9, 2017

09/17/15 - BOSTON, MA. - Akram Alshawabkeh, the George. A. Snell Professor of Engineering, recently received a grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the impact of a mixture of environmental exposures and modifying factors on fetal and early childhood health and development in Puerto Rico. Photo by: Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University

New grant puts Northeastern at forefront of solving health challenges for women, children

The award, from the NIH and the EPA, will establish a center in Puerto Rico that will study how pollutant exposure and psychosocial risk factors impact the health and development of children living on the island’s heavily contaminated northern coast.

by Jason Kornwitz September 23, 2015

Northeastern awarded NIH grant to study links between contaminants, preterm birth

Northeastern University has received a five-year, $13.5 million award from the National Institutes of Health to continue its interdisciplinary, multi-university investigation into the complex relationship between environmental contamination and preterm birth.

by Greg St. Martin June 2, 2014

Scholars’ ‘flash talks’ explore resilience, from health to media innovation

New grant puts Northeastern at forefront of solving health challenges for women, children

Northeastern awarded NIH grant to study links between contaminants, preterm birth

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