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  Human Trafficking Research: Professors Win Major Grants
  Human Trafficking Research: Professors Win Major Grants

  5/22/2020
  Two assistant professors of criminology have won a pair of $500,000 grants from the National Institute of Justice to study sex and labor trafficking. Ryan Shields is working on ways to better identify trafficking victims, while Amber Horning Ruf researches how people become pimps and sex traffickers.
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  Melissa Morabito Nominated for ASC Executive Counselor
  Melissa Morabito Nominated for ASC Executive Counselor

  5/1/2020
  Beginning May 1, 2020, current non-student American Society of Criminology members can vote in the election of officers. Voting runs until June 15, 2020.
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  Faculty Researchers Receive UML Seed Funding for COVID-19 Work
  Faculty Researchers Receive UML Seed Funding for COVID-19 Work

  4/30/2020
  Three faculty-led research projects focused on immediate responses to the COVID-19 pandemic received more than $33,000 in seed funding from the university’s Office of Research and Innovation.
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  The New Normal: Students Adjust to a Semester Interrupted
  The New Normal: Students Adjust to a Semester Interrupted

  3/26/2020
  As Massachusetts officials advised everyone to stay at home to prevent further spread of the novel coronavirus, students are adapting to studying online – and adopting coping strategies to help manage the upheaval.