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Grant Funded Research

Northeastern Environmental Justice Research Collaborative

The Northeastern Environmental Justice Research Collaborative (NEJRC) is made up of scholars dedicated to building a more transformative environmentalism in the United States and around the world. Based at Northeastern University, NEJRC Associates collaborate with policy makers, elected officials, environmental advocates, foundation officials, scholars, students, community activists, the...

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Project Play Website

Project Play is a research project at Northeastern University. Project Play will develop the Professional Version of the Developmental Play Assessment (DPA-P). The DPA-P can tell us about how a child plays. Professionals can then use the information to choose play goals for the child. The EdTech Center developed this website so that Project Play could get new participants and provide...

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Children of Drancy

The play, Children of Drancy: a montage of voices, was created entirely from letters, archival documents, as well as the poetry and drawings of victims of the arrest and deportation of Jews, including 11,400 children, from French concentration camps to Auschwitz during the German occupation of France, 1940-1944. Most were deported from Drancy, a concentration camp outside of Paris. In all,...

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IGERT Intelligent Diagnostics

This National Science Foundation supported IGERT program has been devleoped to meet the challenges of educating U. S. Ph.D scientists and engineers who will pursue careers in research and education using their interdisciplinary backgrounds, acquired knowledge in specific disciplines, and technical, profressional, and personal skills to become leaders and creative agens for change. The program is...

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Awareness and Localization of Explosive-Related Threats (ALERT)

The Department of Homeland Security recently awarded a Centers of Excellence grant to Northeastern's Bernard M. Gordon Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems (CenSSIS) to establish a center called ALERT (Awareness and Localization of Explosive-Related Threats) As reported in The Northeastern Voice (Vol. 20, No. 8), 'the ALERT research program is driven by the needs facing homeland...

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Human Trafficking Reporting System (HTRS)

Northeastern's Institute on Race and Justice has launched the Human Trafficking Reporting System (HTRS), developed by The EdTech Center, to provide systematic information on cases of human trafficking that have come to the attention of law enforcement. The Institute on Race and Justice collaborated with the Urban Institute and 42 task forces funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), to...

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Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing

Northeastern University has announced that Dr. Carol Glod, APRN, PhD, FAAN, research director and professor of nursing, has received a federal traineeship grant in the amount of $625,000 from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to expand the university's graduate child psychiatric nursing program. Aiming to help eliminate the severe shortage of nurses for underserved...

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Environmental Justice Research Collaborative

The Northeastern Environmental Justice Research Collaborative (NEJRC) is a multidisciplinary research collaborative made up of scholars, activists, and policy makers in New England engaged in the study of political ecology and environmental justice initiatives. Located at Northeastern University in Boston, the collaborative works on a wide range of local, regional, national, and international...

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Regional Interpreter Education Center

The Northeastern University Regional Interpreter Education Center is a proud member of the National Consortium of Interpreter Education Centers (NCIEC). An association of six centers sharing fiscal, leadership, and knowledge resources, and tapping the wealth of expertise and diverse perspectives of local, regional, and national partners, the NCIEC represents a unique response to federal...

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American Lyceum

The EdTech Center created a website to support and promote the NEH grant-funded workshop: 'THE AMERICAN LYCEUM AND PUBLIC CULTURE: THE ORATORY OF IDEALISM, OPPORTUNITY, AND ABOLITION IN THE 19TH CENTURY' in May 2007. Description of the workshop: In these workshops we will revisit a seminal period in American intellectual and social history, the growth of the American Lyceum. I invite you to...

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Minority Faculty Development

The EdTech Center created a Web site that would serve as the official site for the 21st Century engineering faculty workshop and directly support the MFDF's mission to provide an ongoing mechanism to support the career development and retention of junior faculty. The site included the application, pre-conference survey, and workshop schedule. Additionally, a member database, available to members...

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Center for High-Rate Nanomanufacturing

In the fall of 2004, the National Science Foundation awarded Northeastern University and its partners, the University of Massachusetts Lowell, the University of New Hampshire, Michigan State University and the Museum of Science, a Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center for High-Rate Nanomanufacturing with funding of $12.4 million over five years. The Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing is...

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Shannon Community Safety Initiative

The Massachusetts legislature recently provided $11 million for anti-gang grants through the Senator Charles E. Shannon, Jr. Community Safety Initiative (Shannon CSI). This is a new $11 million grant program administered by the Executive Office of Public Safety (EOPS) to 'support regional and multi-disciplinary approaches to combat gang violence through coordinated programs for prevention and...

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CURP Survey

In 2003, Northeastern University's Center For Urban and Regional Policy designed a self-assesment questionnaire and accompanying analysis for 12 cities in Massachusetts. They worked in collaboration with the Massachusetts Chapter of the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties (NAIOP), the NAIOP foundation, the Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs. The purpose...

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Keck 3d Microscope

Website to support research conducted with Keck Microscpe at NU by scientists at NU and other institutions. Includes scheduling capability, registration database, sample images database.

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Word of Mouth Communication Study

The Word-of-Mouth Communication Study is a research project spearheaded by Northeastern University's Communication Department, working in collaboration with BzzAgent. The goal of the project is to learn more about the phenomenon of word-of-mouth communication as it occurs in everyday conversations. Word-of-mouth communication is informal communication, positive or negative, about an organization...

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Get Rich Slow

Get Rich Slow is a game-based seminar, developed by the EdTech Center for Boston College's Center for Retirement Research, in which participants respond to questions about financial concepts and make financial decisions for a fictional character in order to learn about major financial planning issues faced by women at four different ages/life stages. At the beginning of the game, the main...

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ICEFISH

Biology Professor Bill Detrich and a team of 30 scientists from around the world are on board the Nathaniel B. Palmer research vessel for the ICEFISH 2004 Cruise. The mission of the 61-day cruise, which left from Punta Arenas, Chile, on May 17th, and will dock at Cape Town, South Africa, on July 17th, is to collect specimens of lower latitude fishes in order to relate the evolution, physiology,...

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