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Students Survey Homeless to Help Determine Services
一群社会学学生就如何更好地服务该地区的无家可归者进行了一项调查.
今年春天，住房和城市发展区域办公室委托进行了时间点统计，由联合劝募会及其志愿者管理.
“学生们经过培训，能够根据住房和城市发展部的指导方针确定哪些人有资格成为无家可归者, and they also administered a survey and a brief interview,” says Angie Henderson, associate professor of Sociology.
亨德森说，学生们收集的数据和信息将由住房和城市发展部用来决定维尔德县获得多少资金来解决无家可归者的需求.
该项目“表明，走出去，获取有关人们的数据可以改变人们的生活,” says JJ Christofferson, a second-year master’s student.
“很容易看到调查结果或阅读一篇文章，你看到的是没有真正联系的发现,” he says. “With the survey, you see the people that you might be helping, and you talk to them and learn more about them.”
过去两年的寒假期间，劳伦·麦克唐纳每年都在丹佛救援中心工作. 这位大三学生说，这次经历激励她在毕业后与无家可归者一起工作, and her work on the survey strengthened her desire.
“I’m not a person who learns just from sitting in class and reading books. I have to go out and do it for myself and learn that way,” McDonald says. “我们项目的一切都能让你跳出框框，让你做一些你将来会为工作做的事情.”
Henderson says UNC will participate in future surveys, starting this summer.
“我们能够将学生与当地组织配对，直接解决社区的需求，让学生参与其中,” she says. “They’re doing sociology, but they’re also doing sociology that is related to social justice, which is what they’re learning in class.”
– Parker Cotton
SURVEY NUMBERS
调查进行时，这些数据可以让我们一窥该地区无家可归者的状况:
88 — total unsheltered homeless
82 percent — male and older than 24.
42 percent — self-identified as having at least one disabling condition, such as a mental illness or substance abuse disorder.
RESEARCH IN THE NEWS
Research conducted by UNC faculty and students gains attention, including coverage by state, national and international media.
TURNING DOWN TUNES TO SAVE YOUR EARS
According to the World Health Organization, 10亿年龄在12-35岁之间的人因不安全使用个人音频设备和暴露在音乐会的噪音中而使他们的听力处于危险之中, bars and other venues. 3月15日，《皇冠app官方版下载》刊登了听力学教授迪安娜·迈因克和研究生玛丽·欧文的研究成果，他们利用人体模型和声表向孩子们展示听音乐的安全水平. Meinke, who’s co-director of the Dangerous Decibels initiative, also provided expert commentary for a Feb. 17 story in the Washington Post about noise-induced hearing loss in workout facilities. 她是3月3日世卫组织在日内瓦发起“确保听力安全”运动期间受邀参加国际耳保健日小组讨论的唯一一位美国人, Switzerland.
ANALYZING THE ‘DONES’
Josh Packard, assistant professor of Sociology, 3月14日，温尼伯自由报(Winnipeg Free Press)采访了他的一篇报道，内容是皇冠app安卓下载安装他所谓的“已完成”的研究——那些仍然强烈认同自己的信仰，但不再去教堂的基督徒. In his book Church Refugees, 帕卡德说，人们变得厌倦有各种各样的原因:他们厌倦了重复的教堂服务, tired of being lectured to in sermons, 被教会政治所拖延，或者想要更多时间参与当地社区.
INFORMING COLORADO’S CHILD WELFARE SYSTEM
As reported in the Sept. 14 Denver Post, an exhaustive analysis of five years of data led by Elysia Clemens, associate professor of Applied Psychology and Counselor Education, 发现科罗拉多州寄养儿童比无家可归的学生更不可能从高中毕业. The research, 这是科罗拉多州教育部和公共服务部共同努力的一部分, 将作为创建国家儿童福利制度改革路线图的基础.
WEIGHING IN ON FRATERNITY’S RACIST CHANT
《皇冠app安卓下载安装》3月9日就俄克拉荷马大学兄弟会的种族主义口号发表了一篇文章，其中包括尼古拉斯·西雷特的专家评论. 这位皇冠app官方版下载历史学副教授是《皇冠app安卓下载安装》一书的作者. In the story, 他指出，皇冠app安卓下载安装兄弟会的种族人口统计数据并不多，因为“他们不想公开谈论这个问题。.”
WHEN HEALTHY EATING BECOMES UNHEALTHY
Associate Professor of Psychology Thomas Dunn was interviewed for stories in the Nov. 他的研究建立了指导方针，帮助医疗专业人员诊断神经性厌食症, an obsession with healthy eating that can lead to unhealthy consequences. 邓恩告诉《皇冠app官方版下载》:“他们这么做不是为了减肥，而是为了健康。. “这只是一种心态，就像我们在其他精神疾病中看到的那样，它被推向了极端.”
PROFESSOR’S BATS ARE ACADEMIC JOURNAL’S COVER STORY
来自里克·亚当斯教授实验室的蝙蝠出现在四月号《皇冠app官方版下载》的封面上. 这篇皇冠app安卓下载安装牙买加果蝠的内耳和声纳发育以及与飞行能力的关系的专题文章是由亚当斯和皇冠app官方版下载毕业生理查德·卡特撰写的, who’s now teaching at Ohio University. Adams took the photo that appeared on the cover.
IT’S WARMER THAN IT USED TO BE
Professor of Economics Mark Eiswerth is quoted in a report, which received state media coverage, from the Environment Colorado Research & Policy Center titled: “Dangerous Inheritance: The Hotter, More Extreme Climate We’re Passing Down to America’s Young. He says:
“In Colorado, 气候变化和温度上升的最重要和最可能的影响之一涉及供水规模和季节时间的变化.”
“水资源供应的不确定性对经济、公众健康和福祉都有重大影响, 把气候变化作为当代人和子孙后代必须解决的重要问题,” he adds.
According to the analysis, average temperatures in Colorado have outpaced the national average by rising 1.9 degrees over the last five generations, leading to drought, severe wildfires and floods. Without changes in carbon emissions, the temperature will rise 5-10 degrees when today’s children reach retirement, the report states.
