Every weekday during the academic year, more than 50 million children across the United States enter public school buildings. Many of these buildings are so dilapidated and poorly designed that children’s health and safety are at risk.
Stop the Violenceby Christie SounartBeverly Kingston (PhDSoc’05) directs CU Boulder’s Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence (CSPV). Here she discusses preventive measures for children and mass shootings, and what needs to be done for the violence to end.Do you define violence the way the rest of us do?I use the Centers for Disease Control
Questions remain about the respiratory risk posed to a fifth of the United States population by increasing wildfires—but a CU Boulder researcher is trying to clear the air It had already been an exceptional fire season across the American West by the time Montana’s Rice Ridge fire began. It began in July 2017 as many
Initial data suggest that it does have an effect, particularly among less-healthy populations, CU Boulder researchers find A first look at the intersection of climate change and the relatively good health of new migrants—or “healthy migrant effect”— suggests that the changing climate might propel less-healthy people to migrate from Mexico to the United States, according
On February 28th, the Institute of Behavioral Science hosted the inaugural Richard Jessor Distinguished Lecture on Health and Society featuring renowned social scientist, Sir Michael Marmot. About the lecture: "Social justice, social determinants, and health equity" Taking action to reduce health inequalities is a matter of social justice. In developing strategies for tackling health
Post-Doctoral Research Positions Demography and Genetics University of Colorado at Boulder The Institute of Behavioral Science and the Institute for Behavioral Genetics recently received a T32 training grant from NIA to train pre and post-doctoral candidates in Demography and Genetics (T32AG052371). We are currently searching for two post-doctoral positions that will begin early or
Lori Peek was named by the Ottawa University Alumni Association as the 2017 recipient of the Ottawa University Outstanding Achievement Award. The award “recognizes individuals who have made an impact in their chosen field of endeavor, whether over a span of many years or in a relatively short time frame.” To be considered for the
Dr. Tom Cook presented two guest lectures at the Institute of Behavioral Science at CU Boulder, October 13, 2017: 1) The evidence about evidence-based policy: How consistent are different clearinghouses on the standards for what warrants acceptable evidence? and 2) When quasi-experimental designs reliably reproduce estimates from randomized experiments on the same topics. Tom Cook
Lori Hunter, Director of the CU Population Center and the Population Program at IBS, has received an appointment to serve on the National Academy of Sciences Board on Environmental Change and Society (BECS). The BECS helps guide research in the United States on the interactions between human activity and global environmental change. It is the
An article entitled "Life after the Storm: Children Who Survived Katrina Offer Lessons" was published on September 8th by the New York Times. Dr. Lori Peek, the director of the Natural Hazards Center at IBS, did extensive research on the ground in New Orleans in the years that followed Katrina and published a book on
