Feb 9, 2021
In SUPPORT of SB368, A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana code regarding criminal law and procedure.
Chairman Young, Ranking Member Glick, Ranking Minority Member Tallian, and members of the Senate Corrections and Criminal Law Committee:
My name is Alan Smith, and I am a senior fellow and Midwest Director at the R Street Institute, which is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, public policy research organization. Our mission is to engage in policy research and outreach to promote free markets and limited, effective government in many areas, specifically including prosecutorial reform, which is why SB 368 is of particular interest to us.
Cal State Fullerton scholars submitted the following research publications, presentations and honors in January 2021:
PUBLICATIONS
Rachel Fenning, associate professors of child and adolescent studies, and
Sasha Zeedyk, assistant professor of child and adolescent studies, co-authored a manuscript with their former students
Jacquelyn Moffit ’16 (B.A. psychology),
Sarah Paez ’19 (B.A. communicative disorders) and
Sydney Seel ’19 (B.A. psychology): “Parental Socialization of Emotion and Psychophysiological Arousal Patterns in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder” in Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology.
Fenning also co-authored “Correlates of Oral Health Fatalism in Caregivers of Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder” in Special Care in Dentistry.
UC San Diego researchers report that climate change is a chronic mental health stressor, and promotes a variety of mental health problems. The 2018 Camp Fire is a case study.
Today
Cloudy with rain and snow this evening. Remaining cloudy overnight. Low 28F. Winds E at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precip 90%..
Tonight
Cloudy with rain and snow this evening. Remaining cloudy overnight. Low 28F. Winds E at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precip 90%. Updated: April 13, 2021 @ 8:55 pm Chancey Bush, The Gazette
Houseplants, unlike garden plants, are completely reliant on their owners for sunlight and nutrition, but they repay the effort by producing a number of benefits in return. Houseplants have made a comeback during the pandemic, and their popularity will continue into 2021, according to HGTV.
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Positive messaging plays a key role in increasing COVID-19 mask compliance
Many organizations are looking at effective ways to communicate the importance of wearing a mask, especially as highly contagious new strains of coronavirus threaten to cause a surge in infections.
Researchers at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill suggest positive messages based on unity and togetherness are critical to supporting the effort and could help normalize wearing a mask in social settings.
Their findings, published in December in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, give public health experts, leaders and communicators insight to craft messaging that could potentially increase mask usage during the pandemic.