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The University of Arkansas at Little Rock has selected the winners of the 2021 Student Research and Creative Works Expo.
The annual event features the latest innovative research, service or professional work, and creative projects by the student researchers at UA Little Rock.
The expo also featured presentations by the 2021 winners of the Signature Experience Awards, which provides students with grants to fund a signature experience, including a research project, creative activity, or community project, to enrich the students’ academic experience at UA Little Rock.
“In its fourth year, the UA Little Rock Signature Experience has matured into a foundational pillar of undergraduate and graduate student research and creative work with the generous support of the Donaghey Foundation,” said Dr. Jeremy Ecke, director of undergraduate research at UA Little Rock.
‘Critical for HUD to act’: agency watchdog says public housing tenants need radon protections
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In Worcester, Massachusetts, testing by Advance Local s MassLive in 2018 found elevated radon in an apartment at Great Brook Valley Gardens. The apartment was vacant as of September, when a prospective group of new tenants toured it with a toddler. Beth Nakamura/Staff
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The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has failed to ensure residents living in public housing are protected from exposure to radioactive gas, the agency’s independent watchdog determined this week, confirming findings from a 2019 investigation by The Oregonian/OregonLive.
HUD watchdog says public housing tenants, including some in Alabama, need radon protections
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In Worcester, Massachusetts, testing by Advance Local s MassLive in 2018 found elevated radon in an apartment at Great Brook Valley Gardens. The apartment was vacant as of September, when a prospective group of new tenants toured it with a toddler. Beth Nakamura/Staff
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The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has failed to ensure residents living in public housing are protected from exposure to radioactive gas, the agency’s independent watchdog determined this week, confirming findings from a 2019 investigation by The Oregonian/OregonLive.
Jerry Halberstadt outside his low-income senior housing building in Peabody. He was masked except for this photo taken at a distance. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)
Jerry Halberstadt, a tenants rights advocate who has fought bullying in low-income housing, is focused on a different concern these days. I’m 84, and unlikely to survive COVID if I get it, so I need to keep myself safe, he said. I’m concerned about the same danger facing 92,000 tenants in public and subsidized housing all over the state.
He worries when neighbors in the building for senior and disabled residents where he lives, in central Peabody on the North Shore, don’t follow rules about wearing masks or maintaining distance in the small elevator or tight hallways. And in the current surge, the risk has grown.