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Swirling: New Connecticut Trend of Taking Courses at Different Colleges

Norwalk Community College

There’s a new trend among students when it comes to earning a college degree, the swirl. Today’s students working toward a Bachelor’s degree are faced with additional pressures, especially … Continue reading "Swirling: New Connecticut Trend of Taking Courses at Different Colleges". The post Swirling: New Connecticut Trend of Taking Courses at Different Colleges appeared first on Norwalk Community College.

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Taking research from Saint Louis to New Delhi

WashU Institue for Public Health

Written by Biva Rajbhandari, programme officer at the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation in New Delhi, India and alumna of the Summer Research Program- Public & Global Health Track. I learned about the Summer Research Program during my first year as a Masters’ candidate in Public Health and Social Work at the Brown School. From the beginning, I saw it as a stepping stone to the world of research.

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Emotional violence in childhood, adolescence associated with suicidal thoughts

WashU Institue for Public Health

Early exposure to emotional violence “significantly” increases the chances that youths will contemplate suicide, according to new research from three countries conducted by Washington University in St. Louis’ Brown School. “We find the odds of suicide ideation are consistently and significantly greater for adolescents who report overexposure to emotional violence,” said Lindsay Stark, associate professor and co-author of the study “A Sex-disaggregated Analysis of How Emotional Violence Relates t

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