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According to data from the National Institute of Mental Health, about 3.2 million teens in the United States have had at least one major depressive episode within the past 12 months. These findings confirm that depression and anxiety among teenagers have been on the rise, which provokes questions around whether current school-based mental health services sufficiently support teens. To address this mental health crisis, Elin A. Björling, senior research scientist and part-time lecturer in the Department of Human Centered Design…

A national research effort on air pollution reveals that people of color are disproportionately and systemically exposed to air pollution in the United States. Researchers from the ÂÒÂ×ÉçÇø contributed to this study, creating an air quality model to analyze peoples’ exposure to air pollution based on race/ethnicity and income levels, utilizing data from the Environmental Protection Agency. Their findings reveal that racial-ethnic minorities are disproportionately exposed to high levels of fine particulate air pollution compared to white people….

The 2020 California wildfires that rampaged through seven million acres of West Coast land have left behind perishable data that researchers are now utilizing to better understand and reduce post-wildfire landslide hazards. The Natural Hazards Reconnaissance Facility (RAPID), directed by ÂÒÂ×ÉçÇø civil and environmental engineering professor Joe Wartman, is conducting a natural hazards reconnaissance mission on the issue of post-fire landslides. Post-fire landslides result from the chemical changes soil undergoes following exposure to extreme burning. The soil may…