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  • UWindsor undergrad cuts research costs with DIY erosion sensors

    October 06, 2022 |

    Great Lakes Echo |

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    Response Location: Canada, Windsor, Ontario

    A student at Canada’s University of Windsor is creating DIY transducers, which are devices that measure wave pressure, to help researchers track shoreline erosion from water vessels in a larger area than they could afford to study otherwise.

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  • 42 Months on, How Does Sudan's Democracy Movement Endure?

    October 06, 2022 |

    United States Institute of Peace |

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    Response Location: Sudan

    After decentralized protests in Sudan successfully ousted a 30-year dictatorship, nonviolent civic action in the country continues to grow, with highly localized demonstrations calling for everything from greater security against cattle theft to the resignation of corrupt public officials. The protests have been fueled by better exposure via social media, more collaboration among activist groups, and the proliferation of neighborhood-level "resistance committees" that grew out of the movement to topple the dictatorship in 2018 and 2019.

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  • Police responses to mental health crisis calls are reexamined

    October 04, 2022 |

    News21 |

    Multi-Media |

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    Response Location: United States, Salt Lake City, Utah

    GRAND Mental Health’s iPad Program connects people who may be experiencing a crisis with trained mental health professionals rather than law enforcement by video chatting on iPads. GRAND Mental Health, which serves 12 counties, has distributed more than 10,200 iPads in six years. They have distributed about 8,500 of them to clients and nearly 1,700 to first responders and hospital personnel.

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  • How UDEME is fighting corruption in Nigeria's public sector

    October 04, 2022 |

    Social Voices |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Ute, Ondo

    The UDEME Monitor program trains student journalists to track and report on transparency and accountability around publicly-funded projects. The team has produced roughly 1,000 stories exposing corruption and gaps in implementation and has worked directly with community residents to raise awareness around procurement processes.

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  • Hello Mama: The 'Magic Phone Doctor' Pregnant Nigerian Women Wish Stayed

    October 04, 2022 |

    Prime Progress |

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    Response Location: Nigeria

    Hello Mama was a mobile messaging program launched in Nigeria to send health tips and advice to pregnant women to help prevent child and maternal deaths.

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  • Risking Everything to Offer Abortions Across State Lines

    October 04, 2022 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States

    Aid Access is a telemedicine service that connects people in red states with abortion pills. The goal of Aid Access — and similar nonprofits that have emerged since the overturning of Roe v. Wade — is to ensure that abortion pills are affordable and that the most vulnerable people can access them.

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  • 40 Acres: Reaching reconciliation

    October 03, 2022 |

    Vox |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Manhattan Beach, California

    Protesters in Manhattan Beach, Calif., organized a campaign to return Bruce's Beach, a 7,000-square-foot plot of land that was taken from its Black owners in the 1920s, to the descendents of the original proprietors. The success of the effort led to the formation of Where is My Land, an organization that puts pressure on municipalities and governments to return land that was stolen from Black people throughout the United States' history.

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  • Would you like a side of offshoring with that?

    September 30, 2022 |

    NPR |

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    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: Canada, Toronto

    To combat hiring issues caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, some restaurants have leaned on more innovative solutions, like hiring offshore workers to work remotely from other countries. These virtual cashier systems provide ease for employers while still providing customers with a real person to talk to.

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  • Outpatient therapies now offered locally target treatment-resistant depression

    September 29, 2022 |

    Sentinel Source (The Keene Sentinel) |

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    Response Location: United States, Brattleboro, Vermont

    Transcranial magnetic stimulation is being used to treat people with treatment-resistant depression. The noninvasive procedure uses magnetic fields to stimulate nerves in the brain to improve symptoms of depression. So far 19 people have undergone the program at Brattleboro Retreat — many of which have seen improvements in their symptoms — and more than 300 treatments have been completed to date.

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  • Tiny Oregon town hosts 1st wind-solar-battery 'hybrid' plant

    September 28, 2022 |

    Associated Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Oregon

    The Wheatridge Renewable Energy Facility in Oregon is the first in the United States to use wind energy, solar energy, and battery storage on a large scale to provide consistent energy without using fossil fuels to fill gaps.

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