Geography Professor Susan Cassels, in collaboration with Prof. Eli Rosenberg at Emory University and Prof. Steven Goodreau at the University of Washington, has received an NIH R21 Exploratory/Developmental Research grant award. The 2-year joint research effort, “Mathematical models to inform effective home-use HIV testing strategies for MSM,” will identify how rapid home-use HIV testing strategies may impact HIV incidence...
Read MoreThe following NatureWorldReport.com article posted on July 24 by Ian Lang and with the title above is one of many regarding an innovative method of collecting data about whales: Whales – why study them? Well, for starters they’re among the largest creatures to ever live on Earth, and most species happen to be threatened or endangered. The problem is, as smart as they are, whales lack the capacity to understand that the men...
Read MoreStrong rainfall could help drought-plagued Santa Barbara County and the rest of Southern California, UCSB and NOAA experts say. In a Noozhawk article published on July 22 titled “El Niño Could Bring Winter Storms and Much Needed Rain,” Staff Writer Lara Cooper goes on to elaborate: Weather experts say that an El Niño condition forming in equatorial waters could mean significant rain for the parched Southern...
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