by mnobrega | Sep 20, 2018 | CRECE Team
One year ago, on September 20th, 2017, Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico as a Category 4 hurricane and proceeded cross the island from the southeast to the northwest, leaving devastation in its wake. In the weeks and months that followed, CRECE and PROTECT...
by mnobrega | May 9, 2018 | CRECE Team, Project 3
Dr. Deborah Watkins, a researcher for both CRECE’s Project 3and PROTECT’s Project 1, has been awarded a grant by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) to study the impacts Hurricane Maria has had on pregnant women, pregnancy outcomes, and...
by mnobrega | Apr 10, 2018 | CRECE Team, Events
On April 6th, 2018, CRECE researchers, staff, and scientific advisory board members from across mainland U.S. and Puerto Rico gathered in Boston, MA for the CRECE Annual Retreat. The event was held at the Colonnade Hotel and featured presentations sharing team...
by mnobrega | Mar 30, 2018 | CRECE Team, Project 1
Dr. Emily Zimmerman, Project 1 Co-Investigator and the Early Career Investigator for the center, has been awarded a National Institutes of Health (NIH) subcontract to expand her work with Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO), a national study which...
by mnobrega | Jan 31, 2018 | CRECE Team, Events, Highlighted Outreach
On January 23rd and 24th, 2018, 16 delegates from the US Chamber of Commerce Foundation visited the CRECE and PROTECT teams in Puerto Rico with purposes of promoting humanitarian aid. The delegation was composed of corporate representation from companies such as IBM,...
by mnobrega | Jan 3, 2018 | CRECE Team, Project 1
On December 11th-13th, 2017, ROUTES Scholar Morgan Hines visited the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne (UIUC) in order to train PhD students in Dr. Susan Schantz’s lab on setting-up and calibrating their new Non-Nutritive Suck (NNS) device, which was...
