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Photonics Center's Hubbard wins a Black Engineer of the Year award
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When James Hubbard talks to young African-American students considering a career in engineering, he offers the same advice once drilled into him: you can't do it alone. As an "angry young black man" studying at MIT in the 1970s, Hubbard says, he thought he could do just that. But somewhere on the road to becoming a prominent engineer, he smartened up.
SPH study: early drinking leads to alcohol-related acccidents in adulthood
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By Brian
Fitzgerald
It doesn't take a statistics genius to know
that young people who drink have a higher risk of getting into drunk driving
crashes than those who don't indulge in alcoholic beverages. A recent
BU study, however, shows that the younger people are when they start drinking,
the greater the probability that they will have alcohol-related accidents
over the course of their adult lives.
Turning
the tables on tobacco
Students
adopt mass persuasion techniques to promote good health
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By David
J. Craig
U.S. tobacco companies spent $22.5 million a day promoting cigarettes
in 1999, more than most states spent all year on antismoking efforts.
Public health officials cannot hope to match the industry dollar-for-dollar
in persuading young people to forgo the habit, but according to Michael
Siegel, a School of Public Health associate professor of social and behavioral
sciences, they don't have to.
France
says merci beaucoup to alum who helped liberate country 55 years ago
By Brian Fitzgerald
Sounds
abounding
ENG
professor explores the neural connections
that make hearing possible
By Taylor McNeil
ARTS
From A-flat to Zimbabwe
A performance artist's inspiration -- 1000 points of sound from worldwide
roots
By Hope Green
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