Historians and academics warn that while the Capitol riot may be unprecedented, white extremist groups are growing
By Deirdre Fernandes and Dasia Moore Globe Staff,Updated January 9, 2021, 2:28 p.m.
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Rioters inside the Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021.ERIN SCHAFF/NYT
President Trump and the mob he incited at the Capitol on Wednesday to stop the congressional electoral vote count have laid bare the threat of political violence in the United States and thrust the American democratic experiment to a perilous pass.
Political scholars and historians say that while this act of insurrection, spurred on by the president himself,
Engineering researchers have developed a new technique for eliminating particularly tough blood clots, using engineered nanodroplets and an ultrasound "drill" to break up the clots from the inside out.
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A trio of new studies demonstrate low risk of COVID-19 infection and spread in schools, including limited in-school COVID-19 transmission in North Carolina, few cases of the coronavirus-associated multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) in Swedish schools, and minimal spread of the virus from primary school students in Norway.
Infection-control policies, transparency
In the first study, published today in
Pediatrics, a team led by researchers at Duke University traced contacts of North Carolina students infected with COVID-19 in 11 school districts in the first 9 weeks of in-person instruction in the fall.
In August 2020, 56 of 115 North Carolina school districts joined the ABC Science Collaborative to put in place specific public health measures to prevent COVID-19 transmission and share what they learn in the process. Superintendents reported primary and secondary cases by school and week of the quarter. The collaborative was developed by f
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Doctor of Physical Therapy Class of 2023
Elon’s newest cohort of physical therapy graduate students represents undergraduate institutions such as the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, The Ohio State University, Auburn University, and Elon University. The average age of these new Elon students is 25 years old, and they hail from 14 states including New York, Florida, Colorado, and Pennsylvania. These students have an average undergraduate GPA of 3.52 and an average GRE score of 303.
Elon’s Doctor of Physical Therapy program has built a reputation for excellence. In 2016, the program was reaccredited by the Commission on Accreditation in Physical Therapy (CAPTE) and was commended for its Self-Study Report. The Department of Physical Therapy Education was created in 1996 offering a master’s degree, and enrolled its first docto