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11-Dec-2024

A new formula for success in undergraduate chemistry

University of California - Riverside
Grant and Award Announcement

The University of California, Riverside, is transforming undergraduate chemistry classes, allowing students multiple opportunities to demonstrate knowledge while reducing the high stakes of traditional exams. Educators believe the approach will improve outcomes for underserved students.

Funder: U.S. National Science Foundation

11-Dec-2024

University of Tennessee and Sheffield sign MOU to facilitate collaborations

University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Business Announcement

The University of Tennessee and the University of Sheffield recently signed a memorandum of understanding to facilitate educational and research collaborations, share best practices, and promote student and staff exchanges between the institutions.

11-Dec-2024

Grants expand roadway safety programs to Native American youth and older drivers

University of California - San Diego
Grant and Award Announcement

The Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science at University of California San Diego is creating programs to improve safety for all roadway users, including drivers, pedestrians and cyclists. With support from two grants from the California Office of Traffic Safety through the NHTSA, the school is developing an educational program geared towards Native American youth as well as new online courses to improve older driver safety.

Funder: California Office of Traffic Safety, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

11-Dec-2024

2025 SPIE-Franz Hillenkamp Postdoctoral Fellowship awarded to Morgan Fogarty

SPIE--International Society for Optics and Photonics
Grant and Award Announcement

SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, has announced Morgan Fogarty, who is expected to receive her PhD in Imaging Science from Washington University in St. Louis (WashU) in February, as the recipient of the 2025 SPIE-Franz Hillenkamp Postdoctoral Fellowship in Problem-Driven Biomedical Optics and Analytics. The annual award of $75,000 supports interdisciplinary problem-driven research and provides opportunities for translating new technologies into clinical practice for improving human health. Fogarty will be recognized at the Sunday evening plenary session during SPIE Photonics West, scheduled for 26 January 2025.

11-Dec-2024

How job ads shape gender and racial segregation in the UK workforce – new study

Lancaster University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The study, ‘Language in job advertisements and the reproduction of labour force gender and racial segregation’, is published in PNAS Nexus – an official journal of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

The findings provide a labour-market-wide audit of how gender/EDI language in job ads helps shape workforce gender/racial composition, as well as how labour force gender/racial composition influences gender/EDI language in job ads.

Journal: PNAS Nexus

11-Dec-2024

Carnegie Mellon University Africa and Challenger Center collaborate to deliver STEM programs

College of Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
Business Announcement

Carnegie Mellon University Africa, CMU’s College of Engineering location in Kigali, Rwanda, and Challenger Center, will partner to deliver Challenger Center’s Virtual Missions to hundreds of secondary school students on the continent. This project will help grow the population of African students who are motivated to pursue higher education and careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields.

11-Dec-2024

Reduction in teen pregnancy rates could ‘unravel’ as experts warn against ‘complacency’

Taylor & Francis Group
Book Announcement

Despite significant falls in the rate of teenage pregnancies over the past two decades in the UK, academic experts say there are still huge regional differences, and the country’s teenage birth rates remain one of highest among developed nations.