{"id":28299,"date":"2017-03-23T16:12:22","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T20:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/necc.edu\/newsroom2\/2017\/03\/23\/expert-on-dating-violence-to-speak-at-neccs-lawrence-campus\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T17:06:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T21:06:44","slug":"expert-on-dating-violence-to-speak-at-neccs-lawrence-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/necc.edu\/newsroom\/2017\/03\/23\/expert-on-dating-violence-to-speak-at-neccs-lawrence-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"Expert on Dating Violence to Speak at NECC\u2019s Lawrence Campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15388\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/media-old\/2017\/03\/Carlos_Cuevas-newsroom.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15388\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15388\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/media-old\/2017\/03\/Carlos_Cuevas-newsroom-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15388\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Carlos Cuevas will speak on dating violence at NECC&#8217;s Lawrence campus on Wednesday, April 12, at noon.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Dr. Carlos Cuevas, an expert on violence, victimization, and trauma, whose recent work has focused on sexual assault and dating violence among Latinos, will present a talk titled &#8220;Understanding Trauma and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: Issues of Diversity Within Latino\/a Victims of Violence&#8221; on Wednesday, April 12, on Northern Essex Community College\u2019s Lawrence campus from noon to 1 p.m. as part of its STEM Speakers Series.<\/p>\n<p>This lecture is free and open to the public. It will be held in room 301 in the Dr. Ibrahim El-Hefni Allied Health &amp; Technology Center, 414 Common St., Lawrence.<\/p>\n<p>NECC\u2019s STEM Speaker\u2019s Series,\u00a0designed to introduce a wide range of STEM topics to the general public, is funded by a grant from the\u00a0Massachusetts Department of Education\u2019s STEM Starter Academy, which is an initiative of the 15 Massachusetts community colleges to inform, engage, recruit, retain, and graduate more students in science, technology, engineering, and math, through STEM Pathway programs leading to job placement or transfer to university STEM programs.<\/p>\n<p>Cuevas is an associate professor from the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northeastern University and co-director of the Violence and Justice Research Lab who also has a private practice in Cambridge, specializing in working with victims of violence and trauma.\u00a0 His recently co-edited a book titled \u201cThe Wiley Handbook on the Psychology of Violence,\u201d which features a collection of original readings, from an international cast of experts that explore all major issues relating to the psychology of violence and aggressive behaviors.<\/p>\n<p>With more than 300,000 STEM jobs expected in Massachusetts by 2018, Northern Essex is preparing tomorrow\u2019s STEM workers with more than 40 STEM programs including biology, computer aided drafting, computer &amp; information sciences, electronic equipment technology, engineering, health, lab science, medical laboratory technology, and physical sciences.<\/p>\n<p>For additional information on Cuevas visit his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northeastern.edu\/cssh\/faculty\/carlos-cuevas\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For additional information on the event, contact Carolyn Knoepfler, PhD, assistant dean of Science, Technology, Engineering &amp; Advanced Manufacturing at <a href=\"mailto:cknoepfler@necc.mass.edu\">cknoepfler@necc.mass.edu<\/a> or call 978-556-3541.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Carlos Cuevas, an expert on violence, victimization, and trauma, whose recent work has focused on sexual assault and dating violence among Latinos, will present a talk titled &#8220;Understanding Trauma [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164,"featured_media":28301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - 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