Missing Venice: Tracking the Global Movement of Venetian Art and the Evolution of Venetian Architecture and Infrastructure

Changes in the government of Venice heavily influenced Venice’s art, architecture, and infrastructure. After creating a specific research method, the team added to 25 years of WPI’s research by documenting displaced artwork, demolished churches, and filled-in canals. A platform, including an interactive website and timeline map web application, was created to display not only our data, but data collected by future teams as well. Additionally, a smartphone game to raise awareness about "Missing Venice" was designed

Increasing awareness of gynecological cancer symptoms and reducing barriers to medical help seeking: does health literacy play a role?

Health literacy may influence the efficacy of print-based public health interventions. A key part of the U.K. cancer control strategy is to provide information to the public on earlier diagnoses with a view to improving the United Kingdom's relatively poor 1-year cancer survival statistics. This study examined the effect of health literacy on the efficacy of a gynecological cancer information leaflet. Participants (n = 451) were recruited from 17 Cancer Research UK events. Health literacy was assessed with the Newest Vital Sign test. Gynecological cancer symptom awareness and barriers to medical help seeking were assessed before and after participants read the leaflet. Symptom awareness improved, and barriers to medical help seeking were reduced (ps .05). As predicted, individuals with lower health literacy benefited less after exposure to the leaflet (ps < .01 for interactions). Despite careful consideration of information design principles in the development of the leaflet, more intensive efforts may be required to ensure that inequalities are not exacerbated by reliance on print-based public health interventions