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Past news
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Vidya Interviewed about Nature-Based Flood Management Methods
YRG postdoc Vidya Venkataramanan was recently invited to discuss nature-based methods for flood management on the America Adapts podcast, co-hosted by the WWF Environment and Disaster Management program. The episode, titled “Flooding,Climate Change and Art: Creative Community Engagement” is available here and through the World Wildlife Fund here.
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Vidya Shares Social Science Methods at Interdisciplinary Workshops
YRG postdoc, Vidya Venkataramanan, has been representing the social sciences in workshops that are traditionally targeted to engineers and ecologists. In June 2018, she was invited to present a 90-minute interactive session on community engagement at the World Wildlife Fund’s (WWF) Nature-based Flood Management workshop in Bangkok, Thailand. She shared her love for participatory methods…
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Casey Presents at 2018 Third Coast CFAR Symposium
This November, undergraduate YRG member Casey Benzaken presented a scientific poster at the 2018 Third Coast CFAR Symposium. The symposium was held at The University of Chicago in early November with the theme “Ending the HIV Epidemic: Think Globally, Act Locally”. In addition to poster presentations, speakers from across the country presented their findings on…
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Collaborative Crop Research Meeting in Tanzania
The McKnight Foundation, which funds SNAP, recently hosted a two-week collaborative crop research meeting in Dr. Young. Vicky and Dr. Young (with Stella in tow) both attended to share updates on SNAP and to get progress updates from farmers involved in the project. Highlights from the trip include: SNAP farmers presented their progress towards gender…
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YRG is Back!
Our weekly Young Research Group meetings have started back, and we are working on a ton of exciting projects. It’s a privilege to be working with so many talented undergraduates, MPH students, and doctoral students from Anthropology to Statistics. Here’s to a great year!
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Casey and Hayley Return from Field Work in Kenya
This past summer, undergraduates Casey Benzaken and Hayley Platt spent two months in Kisumu, Kenya, working with Pamoja Community Based Organization. Under the guidance of fellow YRG member and Pamoja founder Patrick Mbullo, Casey and Hayley helped collect data for a mixed-methods study about pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). For the past two years, Pamoja has been…
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YRG Impresses at ASN 2018
This year, many members from YRG presented at the annual American Society for Nutrition meeting in Boston, MA. Northwestern students who presented posters were able to apply the skills they had recently learned from Dr. Young’s new course on data analysis, results dissemination, and scientific communication. Harris J, Santoso MV, Bezner Kerr RN, Kassim M,…
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Maggie Presents on Water Insecurity and Infant Feeding Practices
In late March, Maggie Butler presented “Unbreastfed”: The far-reaching consequences of water insecurity for infant feeding” at the 13th Breastfeeding and Feminism International Conference in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Maggie shared preliminary qualitative analyses from 11 of the 28 sites in the Household Water Insecurity Experiences (HWISE) study. The analyses were based on responses to…
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Maggie Awarded Travel Grant for Upcoming Breastfeeding Conference
Maggie Butler received the Buffet Institute for Global Studies’ Graduate Student Conference Travel Award to travel to and present at the Breastfeeding and Feminism International Conference in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She will be sharing preliminary qualitative analyses from the HouseholdWater Insecurity Experiences (HWISE) study in her presentation, “Unbreastfed”: The far-reaching consequences of water insecurity for infant…
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Vidya and Sera Receive the Resnick Family Social Impact Award!
Vidya Venkataramanan, a postdoctoral fellow, and Prof. Sera Young recently received a grant from the Resnick Family Social Impact Fund from the Institute for Sustainability and Energy (ISEN) at Northwestern University. The proposal was entitled, “Understanding and Quantifying Experiences of Water Insecurity Locally and Globally.” This award will enable Vidya to mentor 6-8 undergraduate and…
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Chicago Mayor Commends Collaborative Water Research Projects
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel was at the signing of an MOU that outlines ways to increase collaboration between Northwestern University and Ben-Gurion University’s Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research at the at the Water Technology & Environment Control (WATEC) Conference in Israel. The mayor’s comments about interdisciplinary investigation, cross-country partnerships, and the importance of water (in)security research…
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Pica Among Hispanic Women Living in the US
Our article “Pica is prevalent and strongly associated with iron deficiency among Hispanic pregnant women living in the United States” recently published in the journal Appetite. Structured interviews (n=187) were conducted with pregnant Hispanic women living in Salinas Valley, California, during their antenatal care visits; hemoglobin, serum transferrin, and an acute phase protein (AGP) were measured alongside…
