Carnegie Mellon University Africa announced today that it will expand its digital public infrastructure initiative across the continent. Called the Upanzi Network, this Africa-based collaboration of engineering research labs will work toward a secure and resilient digital transformation by focusing on innovation across the entire pipeline of open standard technologies for the public good.

A recent study emphasizes the critical role of entrepreneurship education within universities as a catalyst for addressing urgent global challenges.

In a new Child Development study researchers at The Ohio State University and University of Pennsylvania explored the significance of student-teacher relationships between kindergarten and third grade. Using the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study - Kindergarten Class of 2010-2011, a nationally representative sample of approximately 14,370 children in the United States (51% Male; 51% White; 14% Black; 25% Hispanic; 4% Asian; 6% Other), researchers examined whether student-teacher relationships, as measured by  closeness and conflict, matter more in specific grades, last over the early elementary school years, and have accumulating effects over time. The outcomes of these relationships included students’ achievement, absenteeism, executive function, and social behavioral development. Additionally, this study considered whether different groups of students benefit more or less from these relationships. The Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) had the opportunity to discuss this research with Dr. Arya Ansari, Associate Professor in the College of Education and Human Ecology at The Ohio State University.  

Larger pay increases and better benefits could help keep K-12 teachers in the teacher workforce, finds a new, nationally representative RAND survey. Researchers examine how teachers’ pay increases, benefits, and major household expenses are related to their intentions to leave and compare teachers’ survey responses with those of similar working adults. They focus their discussion on Black teachers because of the worrying changes in these teachers’ perceptions of their pay and the negative consequences of their attrition on students.

The American Heart Association and Arizona Cardinals provided training and CPR kits support the chain of survival in local schools

Ryan Flanagan, MD, MPH, of the Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is the lead author of a paper published in Gastroenterology, “The Educational Impact of the GI Hospitalist Model on Gastroenterology Fellowship Training.”

A new report addresses the responsible use of race and ethnicity in biomedical research and is a call to action for biomedical research to rethink how it uses race and ethnicity. The number of people who identify as multiracial in the U.S. is increasing, yet there is no standard way to account for multiracial or multiethnic people in biomedical research, according to the final report, Rethinking Race and Ethnicity in Biomedical Research.