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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 29-Aug-2025 03:11 ET (29-Aug-2025 07:11 GMT/UTC)

“Ban-the-Box” policy did not effectively help job applicants with criminal records in one analysis

PLOS
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Analysis of job applicant data from one large employer suggests that a policy meant to improve employment prospects for people with criminal records did not actually lead to changes in job offers for people with records. Deborah Weiss of Northwestern University, U.S., and colleagues present these findings in the open-access journal PLOS One on April 16, 2025.

Journal: PLOS One

A compact, mid-infrared pulse generator

Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Physicists in the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have created a compact laser that emits extremely bright, short pulses of light in a useful but difficult-to-achieve wavelength range, packing the performance of larger photonic devices onto a single chip.

Journal: Nature

Scholar: Federal privacy law needed for sensitive consumer data when companies go bankrupt

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Recreational genetic testing companies hold some of the largest repositories of consumer genetic data in the world, but what happens to all that personal information when the company goes belly up? It would most likely be sold to a successor company that customers might not want to entrust with their genetic data, says a new paper co-written by Sara Gerke, the Richard W. & Marie L. Corman Scholar at the College of Law.

Journal: New England Journal of Medicine

The first BioAgora Cascade Funding Call concludes with two winning proposals

Pensoft Publishers
Grant and Award Announcement

The first cascade funding call of the BioAgora project concluded with two distinguished winning proposals on developing and enhancing initiatives on sceience-policy-society interfaces.

BU awarded funding to improve treatment access for opioid use disorder

Boston University School of Medicine
Grant and Award Announcement

Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine has been awarded funding by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). The funding award will support a study, “Comparing treatment use, retention, and patient outcomes pre- and post-implementation of federal policy changes regulating buprenorphine and methadone treatment for opioid use disorder,” led by Nicholas A. Livingston, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry.

Hengshui’s “zero-waste city” initiative demonstrates synergistic pollution reduction and climate action through agricultural waste innovation

Tsinghua University Press
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A study published in Circular Economy reveals how integrated anaerobic digestion of agricultural waste in China’s Hengshui City has achieved a 64% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions while producing renewable energy and organic fertilizers. The research, led by Tsinghua University scientists and collaborators, underscores the transformative potential of circular economy models in aligning with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly SDG 12 (Responsible Consumption and Production) and SDG 13 (Climate Action).

Journal: Circular Economy

UC political scientist named Carnegie Fellow

University of Cincinnati
Grant and Award Announcement

University of Cincinnati political scientist David Niven has spent a large part of his career examining how we vote. Now, a $200,000 Andrew Carnegie Corporation of New York fellowship award will help Niven dive deeper into the American polling system and how polling environments impact voters.

Funder: Carnegie Corporation of New York

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