Nearly half of all hearing loss cases are due in some part to genetic factors. Researchers around the world, including many at Mass. Eye and Ear/Harvard Medical School, are hard at work on developing therapies to prevent hearing loss from genetic conditions.
When botanists began collecting plant samples for herbaria more than a century ago, their goal was to catalog and understand the diversity of the natural world. These days scientists use the collections to understand the transformative effects of climate change.
The issue, says Barnabas Daru, is that the collections are a flawed fit for that use.
Daru, a postdoctoral fellow in organismic and evolutionary biology working in collaboration with Charles Davis, a professor...
Justice reform initiatives often produce cross-institutional effects throughout the justice sector. Justice officials need tools that would inform them about these collective effects of their efforts. Indicators can be such tools if they are aligned with sectoral goals, and capture interagency relationships.
When allegations of serial sexual misconduct by movie mogul Harvey Weinstein broke in October, they triggered an intense national reckoning over sexual harassment and assault in the workplace and beyond. In the weeks since, women have leveled charges against many high-profile men in entertainment and media, in business and politics. As the accusations continue to erupt through the burgeoning #MeToo social media movement, many observers are wondering if the nation is finally beginning to deal with gender inequity.
Recognizing inappropriate behavior as harassment was a radical...
When allegations of serial sexual misconduct by movie mogul Harvey Weinstein broke in October, they triggered an intense national reckoning over sexual harassment and assault in the workplace and beyond. In the weeks since, women have leveled charges against many high-profile men in entertainment and media, in business and politics. As the accusations continue to erupt through the burgeoning #MeToo social media movement, many observers are wondering if the nation is finally beginning to deal with gender inequity.
Recognizing inappropriate behavior as harassment was a radical...
Washington Post | By Vanessa Williamson (PhD '15). Vanessa Williamson is a fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution and author of Read My Lips: Why Americans Are Proud to Pay Taxes (Princeton University Press, 2017).