Resilience News

For much of our history, Americans understood safeguarding public health to be an essential responsibility of government, like providing for the national defense. But unlike waging wars, public health has always been handled primarily at the local and state levels where it could directly engage with and draw support from the populace.

BioE Assistant Professor Ambika Bajpayee was nominated as Biomaterials Science Emerging Investigator 2021 for her paper “Milk exosomes with enhanced mucus penetrability…

In March, the FBI reported almost 4.7 million background checks -- the most of any month since the agency started…

In the latest Infrastructure Report Card produced by the American Society for Civil Engineers (ASCE), The state of America's infrastructure…

Leading US technology firms such as Apple and Google gathered on Monday, June 19 to attend the first meeting of…

In times of tragedy, many people “look for the helpers”, as the Fred Rogers quote goes. The worst tragedy can bring out the best in people, as seen with the Cajun Navy in Hurricane Harvey, Puerto Rican community response to Hurricane Maria, and the continual bravery of first responders in crises worldwide.

Within the last year, Amsterdam has begun a process to eliminate vehicles with polluting emissions from the city. Residents are encouraged to switch to electric vehicles through a combination of government incentives and energy upgrades, with the hope of eliminating all gas and diesel vehicles by 2030.

Read the full article.  Excerpt:  Vulnerable U.S. citizens face the same kinds of workplace intimidation, sexual harassment, and paycheck fraud…

Criminology and Criminal Justice Director Amy Farrell discussed the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic along with the complex issues of…

Amy Mueller, Assistant Professor in Marine and Environmental Sciences and Civil and Environmental Engineering, has been awarded a $50,000 seed…

The verdict is in: Two masks are better than one. Layering surgical masks under cloth masks can decrease the amount of…

Not all masks are created equal, and neither are people’s faces. That means that even if you combine the best…