Archive for October 2024

The new home for UMMSW prioritizes sustainability with features like a high-performance building wrap, solar panels, green roof with trees, bike lockers with showers for commuters, geo-exchange wells underneath the building that are part of a robust energy and emissions system that will make it the first net-zero emissions building in downtown Baltimore.

Fall graduate Kendall Kivigalok Aknavigak says pursuing a degree in her home community allowed her to engage with her Inuit culture and have the love, support and understanding of her family.

Over 18 months, Dylan Russell, an opioid user, purchased at least 15 guns at shops around the state. The weapons were for drug dealers, authorities say.

On a bright autumn afternoon, a plain wooden box crafted by a local cabinet shop containing skeletal remains was returned to its final resting place during a simple reburial ceremony in Brentwood. Researchers and students from the University of New Hampshire’s Forensic Anthropology Identification and Recovery Lab worked for two years with town officials and the New Hampshire state archaeologist to investigate and document the remains, which were uncovered more than 20 years ago during construction and were identified as being from a farm for paupers during the mid-1800’s, commonly known as a poor farm.

Disruptions, from phone alerts to sick days, can derail our writing. Four authors talk about how they manage to (mostly) maintain the flow, with the help of timers, candles and compartmentalizing.

The Irish Association of Social Workers (IASW) is concerned about the ongoing lack of clarity in relation to the “Pay and Numbers Strategy” and the recruitment of Social Workers within the HSE.

At its core, science is about playing with stuff to uncover new things about the universe (which, by the way, includes our planet and everything on it) that are brand-new to you—and maybe brand-new to anyone.