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  • Searching for the best dog to save livestock — and wildlife

    April 23, 2015 |

    Ensia |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Washington

    Throughout the American West, recovering populations of wolves and grizzly bears have crept beyond the boundaries of national parks, clashing with sheep and cattle as they advance. Looking to Europe as an example, researchers are training and testing guard dogs in various western states as a means of deterring predators and protecting valuable livestock.

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  • Teaching Law in a Country Where Justice Hardly Exists

    April 22, 2015 |

    The Atlantic |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Haiti, Port-au-Prince

    Advocates are on a quest to improve the quality of life in Haiti through legal education.

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  • How One Weekend in Dallas Sparked a Movement for Urban Change

    April 20, 2015 |

    Next City |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, Dallas, Texas

    A Dallas urban neighborhood was dilapidated with abandoned storefronts and offered no vitality for pedestrians. A group of artists and community members created Build a Better Block, in which local artisans and small businesses took over a vacant block and transformed it for a limited time to encourage the ingredients for more permanent urban renewal.

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  • A New Way to Commemorate Atrocity

    April 14, 2015 |

    Pacific Standard |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Memorials are being created at rapid rates these days, but they seem to lack a long-term effect on the public. The Chicago Torture Justice Memorials project seeks to change this pattern by putting out an international call for memorial proposals, wanting a variety in visions and a collective memorial, in order to remember the torture of black detainees and racialized police misconduct.

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  • In sexual misconduct, data offer limited guidance

    April 13, 2015 |

    Yale Daily News |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, New Haven, Connecticut

    As campuses across the country race to address a burgeoning nationwide conversation about sexual assault, policymakers, politicians, university counselors and students alike are faced with a lack of quantitative information. But Yale University has taken significant steps to collect and distribute information that may finally change the toxic culture of campus sexual assault.

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  • Teaching citizens how to shoot better video when they witness brutality

    April 10, 2015 |

    PBS NewsHour |

    Multi-Media |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Nigeria, Lagos

    With human injustices affecting people on the streets around the world, camera phones have become important tools to document crimes. However, the video may not adequately capture the crime to be persuasive in court. The global organization WITNESS has formed as Video As Evidence Program to instruct citizens how to best document crimes with their cameras so that the evidence will stand in court.

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  • When the grid says no...

    April 07, 2015 |

    Public Radio International (PRI) |

    Radio |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Germany, Berlin, Berlin

    Too much solar and wind power in Germany is overloading their grid. A firm developed a new technology that uses super-fast batteries and software to hold intermittent wind and solar power when more than needed is generated.

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  • Education lessons from Maine, New Hampshire

    April 07, 2015 |

    Vermont Public Radio |

    Radio |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Maine

    As Vermont struggles to create legislation regulating school district management and financial efficiency, the state looks to models in Maine and New Hampshire for guidance. In Maine, school districts have tried to save money and resources through consolidation; in New Hampshire, officials have reworked the way schooling is financed altogether.

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  • Fighting TB with a Drive-in Film and Test

    April 03, 2015 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Tanzania

    Slow test results make it difficult to stop the spread of tuberculosis. Using faster diagnostic technology and driving vans to rural areas in Tanzania, GeneXpert is making progress in treating this curable disease.

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  • A special program helps women combat depression, other mental health issues

    March 30, 2015 |

    Southern California Public Radio (KPCC) |

    Radio |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    A unique program at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center is combining prenatal care with psychiatric treatment for low-income women who might otherwise not seek help for mental health issues during pregnancy.

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