In July 2016, a heat wave hit Boston, with daytime temperatures averaging 92 degrees for five days in a row.
Some local university students who were staying in town for the summer got lucky and were living in dorms with central air-conditioning.
He had 44 students perform math and self-control tests five days before the temperature rose, every day during the heat wave, and two days after.
“Many of us think that we are immune to heat,” said Dr. Cedeño, now an assistant professor of environmental and occupational health and justice at Rutgers University.
“So something that I wanted to test was whether that was really true.”It turns out even young, healthy college students are affected by high temperatures.
Persons:
Jose Guillermo Cedeño Laurent, ”, Cedeño
Organizations:
Rutgers University, A.C
Locations:
Harvard