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Released: 4-Dec-2018 3:05 PM EST
Emergency financial assistance reduces homeless shelter entry and violent crime
University of Notre Dame

A new study conducted by researchers at the Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities at Notre Dame shows that emergency financial assistance for people facing homelessness not only reduces shelter entry, but also reduces criminal behavior.

Released: 4-Dec-2018 2:05 PM EST
DHS S&T Announces New Collaborative Blockchain Innovation Solution
Homeland Security's Science And Technology Directorate

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) is seeking innovative solutions from startups to enhance anti-forgery and counterfeiting capabilities for digital documentation through a new solicitation, “Preventing Forgery and Counterfeiting of Certificates and Licenses,” under S&T’s Silicon Valley Innovation Program (SVIP).

Released: 3-Dec-2018 12:05 PM EST
$100K grant helps UIC professor focus on public conviction registries
University of Illinois Chicago

Police websites publish personal data about people with past convictions.

Released: 26-Nov-2018 7:05 AM EST
Media Portrayals of Black Men Contribute to Police Violence, Rutgers Study Says
Rutgers University-New Brunswick

Finding suggests media bias influences the rates at which police engage black men

Released: 20-Nov-2018 6:05 PM EST
Emergency Room Physician Tamara O’Neal, MD, and Pharmacy Resident Dayna Less are Victims of Gun Violence at Mercy Hospital & Medical Center
Loyola Medicine

As a doctor who often treated shooting victims, Mercy Hospital emergency department physician Tamara O'Neal, MD, was greatly concerned about the toll of gun violence. Dr. O'Neal herself became a victim of gun violence on November 19 when she and two others were killed by a gunman at Mercy Hospital.

Released: 20-Nov-2018 10:05 AM EST
Why research on firearm safety is essential
University of Michigan

Q&A with Rebecca Cunningham, co-leader of FACTS and an emergency physician and associate vice president for research at U-M, discussed the announcement.

Released: 19-Nov-2018 5:05 PM EST
Racial Disparity in State Prisons Declined Moderately Since 1995
University of Alabama

The racial disparity in incarceration in state prisons between black and white American men declined between 1995 and 2014, but black Americans are still imprisoned at a high rate, according to recent research from The University of Alabama.

19-Nov-2018 9:00 AM EST
Healthcare Providers – Not Hackers – Leak More of Your Data
Michigan State University

New research from Michigan State University and Johns Hopkins University found that more than half of the recent personal health information, or PHI, data breaches were because of internal issues with medical providers – not because of hackers or external parties.

Released: 16-Nov-2018 4:20 PM EST
Firearm Deaths, Injuries Among Children: New Website to Accelerate Knowledge, Prevention
University of Michigan

The site, www.childfirearmsafety.org, aims to share what’s known—and what experts still need to find out—about guns and people under age 19. The site offers free access to a trove of data on the issue, as well as training for health care providers and others.

Released: 14-Nov-2018 9:00 AM EST
Police Officers ‘Open Up’ about Body-worn Cameras in a Post-Ferguson Era
Florida Atlantic University

A study is the first to use qualitative research to gain deeper insight into law enforcement officers’ personal experiences and perspectives on the use of body-worn cameras in a post-Ferguson era. Based on a long and deep immersion in the field, researchers have generated insider knowledge on one of the most overt strategic changes to modern American policing.

Released: 7-Nov-2018 12:05 PM EST
Levitating particles could lift nuclear detective work
Los Alamos National Laboratory

Laser-based ‘optical tweezers’ could levitate uranium and plutonium particles, thus allowing the measurement of nuclear recoil during radioactive decay. This technique, proposed by scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory, provides a new method for conducting the radioactive particle analysis essential to nuclear forensics.

Released: 1-Nov-2018 2:05 PM EDT
No Justice Beyond the Jail Walls
University of Delaware

University of Delaware Professor Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve's new story, "The Waiting Room," looks at mistreatment at Cook County Jail in Chicago, the largest in the nation. She found that injustices continued beyond the prison walls. The story is part of a Marshall Project series released this week.

Released: 30-Oct-2018 11:40 AM EDT
Suicide More Prevalent Than Homicide in US, but Most Americans Don’t Know It
University of Washington

First-of-its kind research, led by the University of Washington, Northeastern University and Harvard University, delves into public perceptions of gun violence and the leading causes of death in the U.S.

Released: 30-Oct-2018 11:05 AM EDT
Tulane University Awarded $2.3 Million to Study Whether Clearing Blight Stems Teen Violence in New Orleans
Tulane University

The National Institutes of Health has awarded Tulane University a $2.3 million grant to study whether maintaining vacant lots and fixing up blighted properties in high-crime areas can also reduce incidents of youth and family violence within those neighborhoods.

Released: 30-Oct-2018 9:00 AM EDT
Researchers Teach ‘Machines’ to Detect Medicare Fraud
Florida Atlantic University

Like a “needle in a haystack,” human auditors have the painstaking task of manually checking thousands of Medicare claims for specific patterns that could indicate foul play or fraudulent behaviors. Currently, fraud enforcement efforts rely heavily on health care professionals coming forward with information about Medicare fraud. Researchers are the first to use big data from Medicare Part B and employ advanced data analytics and machine learning to automate the fraud detection process.

26-Oct-2018 1:05 PM EDT
Mass Shootings May Trigger Unnecessary Blood Donations
Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Mass shootings often trigger a sharp increase in blood donations for affected communities but more than 15 percent of the product intended to save lives could be discarded, according to a study released today in The Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery.

Released: 25-Oct-2018 3:50 PM EDT
Identifying, Reducing Flow of Counterfeit Goods
South Dakota State University

Graduate students will gain the skills to help identify and reduce the flow of counterfeit through the NSF Research Traineeship program. This compliments what the South Dakota Center for Security Printing and Anti-Counterfeiting Technology is already doing.

   


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