One year ago, on September 20th, 2017, Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico as a Category 4 hurricane and proceeded cross the island from the southeast to the northwest, leaving devastation in its wake. In the weeks and months Read More …
Category: CRECE Team
Watkins Receives NIEHS Award to Study Impacts of Hurricane-related Exposure and Stress on Pregnancy Outcomes and Child Development in Puerto Rico
Dr. Deborah Watkins, a researcher for both CRECE’s Project 3 and PROTECT’s Project 1, has been awarded a grant by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) to study the impacts Hurricane Maria has had on pregnant women, pregnancy outcomes, and Read More …
CRECE Holds Annual Retreat in Boston, MA
On April 6th, 2018, CRECE researchers, staff, and scientific advisory board members from across mainland U.S. and Puerto Rico gathered in Boston, MA for the CRECE Annual Retreat. The event was held at the Colonnade Hotel and featured presentations sharing team progress from Read More …
Zimmerman Receives NIH Award under ECHO to Integrate Non-Nutritive Suck and Eye Tracking as markers of Neurodevelopment
Dr. Emily Zimmerman, Project 1 Co-Investigator and the Early Career Investigator for the center, has been awarded a National Institutes of Health (NIH) subcontract to expand her work with Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO), a national study which Read More …
US Chamber of Commerce Foundation Delegates Visit CRECE and PROTECT in Puerto Rico
On January 23rd and 24th, 2018, 16 delegates from the US Chamber of Commerce Foundation visited the CRECE and PROTECT teams in Puerto Rico with purposes of promoting humanitarian aid. The delegation was composed of corporate representation from companies such as Read More …
Hines, ROUTES Scholar, Travels to University of Illinois to Train PhD Students on CRECE’s Non-Nutritive Suck Device
On December 11th-13th, 2017, ROUTES Scholar Morgan Hines visited the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne (UIUC) in order to train PhD students in Dr. Susan Schantz’s lab on setting-up and calibrating their new Non-Nutritive Suck (NNS) device, which was delivered Read More …
Rovira, Former ROUTES Scholar, Discusses CRECE Co-Op Experience in News@Northeastern
On December 12th, 2017, News@Northeastern featured the article “Co-op in Puerto Rico Expands Student’s Interest in Environmental Health,” which detailed the ROUTES experience of former scholar Alejandro Rovira. The story highlights Alejandro’s explorative environmental health journey to Puerto Rico as the first scholar to Read More …
Two months after Irma and Maria, CRECE & PROTECT Continue Efforts to Support the Community in Puerto Rico
In order to give readers a full-perspective on the work CRECE has been completing in Puerto Rico since the hurricanes, this article provides updates to a piece posted on this site on October 19th, 2017. Since Hurricanes Irma and Maria hit Puerto Read More …
Nature features CRECE and PROTECT Leaders for Research Efforts in Puerto Rico Post-Maria
CRECE and PROTECT Co-Director José Cordero and PROTECT Project 4 Leader Ingrid Padilla were featured in the November 16, 2017, issue of Nature describing Puerto Rico’s struggles to assess the hurricane’s health effects. The article reports on PROTECT’s and CRECE’s Post-Maria efforts Read More …
CRECE Participates in 2017 NIEHS/EPA Children’s Centers Annual Grantee Meeting
CRECE team members attended the 2017 NIEHS/EPA Children’s Centers Annual Grantee Meeting held on October 24-25 in San Francisco, CA. The jointly-funded EPA/NIEHS Children’s Centers Annual Meeting serves as an opportunity for researchers working with Children’s Centers funded by these Read More …