By Andrew Thurston
“Misinformation is more impactful than the correction” says Michelle A. Amazeen, an associate professor of mass communication.
For the past year, Amazeen and Arunima Krishna, an assistant professor of public relations, have explored the spread of vaccine misinformation and the efficacy of different efforts to halt it. Although their study started before COVID-19 tore across the United States and their research has focused on vaccines in general Amazeen says the coronavirus pandemic has “magnified how important the work is that we’re doing.”
“Misinformation is more impactful than the correction.” Michelle A. Amazeen
As part of their research, they created a fictitious Facebook post telling the emotional story of a boy who supposedly developed autism after receiving the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine. Amazeen and Krishna showed the post to around 1,000 participants, then tested three approaches to countering its false message: the story of an
Our Ecosystem at Risk
A student’s study of bacteria in water suggests low levels of antibiotics could have an outsized impact
By Andrew Thurston
In early fall 2015, Corliss Kanazawa crouched at the edge of Hall’s Pond in Brookline, Massachusetts, and skimmed a test tube along the surface. Her shoes sloshing, Kanazawa (’16, SAR’18) took the sample back to a lab at the College of General Studies, where she is scrutinizing the pond’s tiniest residents the bacteria to learn how antibiotics may alter the ecology of our water.
Early results of her study, conducted with natural sciences lecturer Sandra Buerger (CAS’00) as part of a grant for undergraduate research from the Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching & Learning at CGS, suggest low levels of antibiotics could affect the types of bacteria that thrive in ecosystems like Hall’s Pond.
His break came after just two years at BU. Cary finished CGS with his savings exhausted and little idea of which BU school to enter. Internships seemed a good way of figuring out the right path. His first shot an office job didn’t fit the bill, but he struck gold with his second internship, on what was then NBC’s
Late Night with David Letterman.
Growing up on the island of Nantucket, Massachusetts, Cary was an early David Letterman fan, staying up into the night to watch the comedian’s show and acting out highlights in school the next day.
Click the thumbs up >A new webinar series designed to help the remarketing sector prepare for the end of the Covid-19 pandemic has been announced by the Vehicle Remarketing Association (VRA).
‘The New Normal’ webinar series will start at 10am on January 21, 2021, with a discussion on the implications of the Brexit deal including its impact on customs processes and the future of the UK motor industry.
The speakers will include Brexit expert David Bailey, professor of business economics at the University of Birmingham’s Business School, alongside Glyn Edwards, VAT director at MHA McIntyre Hudson and Andrew Thurston, customs duty consultant at MHA McIntyre Hudson.