BOSTON, Massachusetts, May 24 -- Boston University School of Public Health issued the following news: * * * US Excess Deaths Continued to Rise Even After the COVID-19 Pandemic There were over 1.5 million "missing Americans" in 2022 and 2023--deaths that would have been averted if US mortality rates matched those of peer countries. Excess US deaths have been increasing for decades, with working-age adults disproportionately affected, and this trend continued during and after the pandemic. By more PR

BOSTON, Massachusetts, May 24 -- The Boston University Wheelock College of Education and Human Development issued the following news: * * * Creating a Student-Centered Experience In a Q&A, David Schejbal discusses how higher education can best serve adult learners By Jay Halfond Over more than a century, traditions emerged in higher education that evolved into constraining, never-questioned practices, such as the notion of "student credit hours" as the measure of learning. This worked well more PR

WATERTOWN, Massachusetts, May 23 [Category: BizEngineering] -- Vanasse Hangen Brustlin Inc., a provider of transportation planning, engineering, design, land development and environmental services, posted the following news: * * * Charlotte Hosts ThinkBike Workshop to Reimagine Bike Infrastructure The City of Charlotte took a significant step this week toward a more bike-friendly future by hosting a three-day ThinkBike Workshop in partnership with Dutch cycling specialists from Goudappel and more PR

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, May 23 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Why are some rocks on the moon highly magnetic? MIT scientists may have an answer Where did the moon's magnetism go? Scientists have puzzled over this question for decades, ever since orbiting spacecraft picked up signs of a high magnetic field in lunar surface rocks. The moon itself has no inherent magnetism today. Now, MIT scientists may have solved the mystery. They propose that more PR