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This microbe’s for you: Brewery waste becomes scientific fodder for producing liquid biofuels
ITHACA, N.Y. — Gaining new insight into how efficiently the microbes in large bioreactors produce methane from brewery waste, Cornell scientists hope to use their new knowledge to shape these microbial communities to produce liquid biofuels and ot…
Globally sustainable fisheries possible with co-management
The bulk of the world’s fisheries–including the kind of small-scale, often non-industrialized fisheries that millions of people depend on for food–could be sustained using community-based co-management. This is the conclusion of a study report…
Johns Hopkins faculty highly value involvement of nearby urban community for improving research
A survey conducted by Johns Hopkins faculty found strong support among their peers for working more closely with the minority, inner-city community that surrounds the institution. Overall, 91 percent of faculty responders said closer ties make resea…
Study: Customers who participate in eBay’s ‘community’ become better buyers and sellers
A new study from Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business finds that customers of eBay who participate in the company’s online communities become more conservative buyers and more selective and efficient sellers.
The study, “The Impact…
Youth report favorable impressions of community street outreach workers
A new study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy finds that youth generally perceive community street outreach workers positively, regardless of whether they have personally worked with one. Street outreach worke…
Hostile environments encourage political action in immigrant communities
A new study from North Carolina State University finds that anti-immigrant practices — such as anti-immigrant legislation or protests — are likely to backfire, and spur increased political action from immigrant communities. The study examined po…
For migrant workers, community cooperation builds on individual strengths
MADISON — Fostering community cooperation, building on skills and strengths, and getting strangers to work together — these are fundamentals of community development.
Now, a pilot study of six families living in a farm town in New Mexico sugge…
New rules of engagement for older people and climate change
A new study by researchers at the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) at the University of York calls for better engagement of older people on climate change issues.
The report, prepared in partnership with the Community Service Volunteers’ Retir…
Street outreach workers an important tool for violence prevention and intervention
A new study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy describes how using street outreach workers is an effective strategy to reach and engage youth with the goal of violence prevention and intervention. Street outrea…
New computer model advances climate change research
Scientists can now study climate change in far more detail with powerful new computer software released by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colo.
The Community Earth System Model will be one of the primary clim…
