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June 18, 2019
Suicidal teens who receive attention and ongoing support from three or four trusted adults — not just parents, but other family members, friends, teachers, clergy — are nearly seven times less likely to die than teens who receive only standard care, according to research by Cheryl King, professor of psychiatry and psychology, and colleagues.
The Atlantic -
June 18, 2019
Research by Arline Geronimus, professor of health behavior and health education, and research professor at the Institute for Social Research, shows that poorer, less-educated white adults are dying much earlier from internal diseases such as cardiovascular disease and cancers than are more affluent white adults: “Rather than giving up in the face of hopelessness, less-educated Americans may be losing ground for exactly the opposite reason — because they work so hard, they bear the health consequences of years of stress.”
UPI -
June 18, 2019
Liz Kolb, clinical associate professor of education, says U.S. schools have not fully embraced peer-to-peer tutoring in social media, in which older students teach younger students about appropriate online behavior: “It’s definitely needed and schools are seeing that it’s needed, they just don’t know how to go about fitting it into the already tight curriculum they have.”
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June 18, 2019
“The question remains open for small or dwarf galaxies: Do these galaxies have black holes, and if they do, do they scale the same way as supermassive black holes? Answering these questions might help us understand the very mechanism through which these monster black holes were assembled when the universe was in its infancy,” said Elena Gallo, associate professor of astronomy.
Newsweek -
June 18, 2019
Maureen Carroll, assistant professor of law, says a massive class-action lawsuit by thousands of U.S. counties, cities and villages against opioid manufacturers, distributors and pharmacies could be a step to resolve the case because companies often prefer to settle all potential suits through class action: “Sometimes defendants like to enter into class settlements because it offers more closure.”
ABC News -
June 11, 2019
Justin Kasper, associate professor of climate and space sciences and engineering, and colleagues believe they know why the sun’s outer atmosphere is hotter than its surface, and hope to prove it with help from NASA’s Parker Solar Probe: “Whatever the physics is behind this superheating, it’s a puzzle that has been staring us in the eye for 500 years.”
Newsweek -
June 11, 2019
“They’re extraordinarily radical. Even the most conservative ones would have seemed almost inconceivable, I would say, as short as five years ago,” said Reuven Avi-Yonah, professor of law, commenting on G20 proposals that would upend a global tax system that lets many of the world’s corporate giants get away with paying little to no tax.
Quartz India -
June 11, 2019
Research by Aubree Gordon, assistant professor of epidemiology, and colleagues found for the first time that targeting a specific portion of the flu virus that varies relatively little from strain to strain offers protection in humans — moving the search for a universal flu vaccine one step closer to fruition.
Scientific American -
June 11, 2019
Vincent Hutchings, professor of political science and Afroamerican and African studies, says automatic and same-day registration increase registered voters but they do not address racial discrepancies in voter turnout, and even if all 50 states adopted these policies to encourage participation, “we have to encourage more equity in a whole range of other dimensions.”
HuffPost -
June 11, 2019
H. Luke Shaefer, director of Poverty Solutions and associate professor of social work and public policy, said Congress should keep the earned-income tax credit as a work inducement for poor Americans and include a separate plan to help those who have fallen out of the labor market: “The work incentive is good, but we should layer something on top of that so we’re not leaving out the poorest families.”
The Washington Post
