{"id":17597,"date":"2015-01-28T15:48:17","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T22:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=17597"},"modified":"2015-01-30T09:20:04","modified_gmt":"2015-01-30T16:20:04","slug":"cafe-scientifique-to-explore-the-causes-preterm-births-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=17597","title":{"rendered":"Caf\u00e9 Scientifique to explore preterm births in America"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_17007\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17007\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Mary-Coussons-Read.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17007\" src=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Mary-Coussons-Read-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"Mary Coussons-Read\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17007\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mary Coussons-Read<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Despite advanced health care, the rate of preterm birth in the U.S. remains high, and often\u00a0occurs in otherwise healthy women who have no clear risk factors.<\/p>\n<p>At Feb. 10&#8217;s\u00a0Caf\u00e9 Scientifique,\u00a0Mary Coussons-Read, executive vice chancellor, Academic Affairs, and professor, Department of Psychology, will discuss new research\u00a0investigating how stress in pregnancy affects the outcome of human pregnancy by altering maternal inflammatory and endocrine activity, and how these changes may ultimately impact behavioral and immunological development and health in offspring.<\/p>\n<p>The presentation, entitled \u201cThe Psychoneuroimmunology of Pregnancy: Implications for Birth and Human Development,&#8221; will start at 6:30 p.m.\u00a0at Clyde\u2019s\u00a0in the University Center.<\/p>\n<p>The event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Tom Huber, professor, Geography and Environmental Studies,\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:thuber@uccs.edu\">thuber@uccs.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Caf\u00e9 Scientifique is an informal gathering of scholars and science aficionados who are passionate about debate and friendly discussion with\u00a0 peers.\u00a0The event is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>The UCCS Department of Public Safety will provide complementary parking for the event in lots 3 and 4.<\/p>\n<p>Funding for Caf\u00e9 Scientifique is provided by UCCS Auxiliary Services.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p> At Feb. 10&#8217;s Caf\u00e9 Scientifique, Mary Coussons-Read, executive vice chancellor, Academic Affairs, and professor, Department of Psychology, will discuss new research investigating stress in pregnancy. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=17597\" title=\"Caf\u00e9 Scientifique to explore preterm births in America\">(More)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":19901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,12,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-events","category-upcoming-events"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Mary-Coussons-Read-240x300.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mBpJ-4zP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17597"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17662,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17597\/revisions\/17662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}