Work With Us: Sound Levels in Local Schools

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Noise and the City, Community Noise Lab, Herb Singleton at Cross-Spectrum Acoustics , and pioneering noise researcher, Arline Bronzaft, are all so PROUD of the innovative work undertaken by a group of super intelligent and highly motivated young students in Sharon, MA. Their research project involved measuring sound levels in and around local schools and…
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Work With Us! Mariana Cruz

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This summer, Community Noise Lab had the privilege of working with rising high school Senior, Mariana Cruz, from Chelsea, MA. In addition to measuring sound levels in the South End, Revere, and Chelsea; Mariana was instrumental in helping us get a lot of our study material translated into Spanish. Mariana presented her summer findings yesterday…
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Eagle Hill, East Boston and our MOU

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Community Noise Lab attended Eagle Hill Civic Association‘s monthly community meeting last night to provide updates on our sound study. Most importantly, we were able to sign a Memorandum of Understanding between Community Noise Lab and Eagle Hill Civic Association. This document outlines our project’s: purpose, goals and objectives, roles and responsibilities, and expected deliverables.…
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NoiseScore 2.0 App Updates 7 29 2019

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Happy Monday, Er’body! We just wanted to pop in and let you all know about some NoiseScore app updates that were released over the weekend: On some Android versions the NoiseScore icon was not loading properly. We have fixed this issue. We have provided a “save password” option for users on the Login page. We…
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Work With Us! City of Asheville, NC

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One of Community Noise Lab’s most pressing research agendas is to continue to develop free and accessible noise advocacy tools. Work With Us! is a series of blog posts, which highlights how our lab is working with communities across the nation to address their specific sound and noise issues. Our first blog involves a discussion…
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NoiseScore App Updates

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It’s been a very busy few months at Community Noise Lab! We have been working closely with The Software & Application Innovation Lab (SAIL) at the Hariri Institute for Computing at Boston University to put the finishing touches on NoiseScore 2.0, under the direction of software engineer, Sarah Leinicke. Since 2017, we have piloted NoiseScore 1.0…
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Anatomy of Community Noise Lab

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So what is Community Noise Lab? We are very excited about the launch of Community Noise Lab at Boston University School of Public Health! Our first round of research studies has been generously funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Here, we detail the key elements of our new lab! Our Research Approach: At Community…
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OPEN CALL for 2019 Community Sound Portraits Series

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We cannot believe that it was almost three years ago that we launched our first open call for our Community Sound Portraits Series. With local artist (and now business owner) Julio Cesar Roman, we conducted and released a series of 12 qualitative interviews of community residents and their thoughts and reactions to their community soundscape.…
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Community Noise Lab at BU

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We are so pleased to announce our new research and creative projects to be launched in the next few months. Some of these projects are reinventions of our current work, while others are completely new. Our newest endeavor, Community Noise Lab, is housed within the Department of Environmental Health at the Boston University School of…
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