On Friday the Sexual and Reproductive Justice Hub (SRJ Hub) at the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy (CUNY SPH) launched the newest iteration of the civil society-led Global 16 Days of Activism to End Gender-based Violence campaign. 

Less than half of U.S. adults know that regularly drinking alcohol increases the risk of later developing cancer, according to a survey by the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania.

Researchers at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and Mississippi State University are studying resold, refurbished, discounted, or dated (R2D2) military capabilities with a grant from the Department of Defense. This "value arms" research aims to understand their effectiveness and economic impact, potentially informing defense policy and creating manufacturing jobs in Tennessee.

Agroforestry systems, which integrate trees and shrubs into farming, are vital to achieving sustainable cocoa production in West Africa where 70 percent of the world cocoa is produced. Climate change induced drought means that it is ever more critical to adapt farming practices and find new approaches. Research led by scientists from the University of Göttingen sheds light on a promising new approach to improve climate resilience in cocoa agroforestry across West Africa; this focuses on the critical role of leaf “phenology” – the seasonal changes in leaf cycles – in trees providing shade in managing climate impacts. The study discovered that the seasonal leaf cycles of shade trees can significantly influence the productivity of cocoa agroforestry systems as well as their resilience to global environmental change. The results were published in Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment.