Ivy League costs creep close to $90,000 per year: " Prices just keep going up "
High school seniors are now receiving their college acceptance letters, and perhaps a dose of sticker shock. The cost of some Ivy League colleges is approaching $90,000 a year, while elite liberal arts colleges are also boosting their total prices to more than $80,000 annually. The seemingly…#brownuniversity #cornell #vermont #middleburycollege #lainieleber #harvard #collegeconfidential #middlebury #massachusetts #williamscollege (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 29, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
DNA shows ‘Persian Princes’ helped found medieval African trading culture
The Swahili coast, stretching more than 3000 kilometers from southern Ethiopia to Tanzania, was a hub of medieval trade, exporting ivory and other resources from the African interior to South Asia, the Arab world, and Persia. Its cultural legacy remains potent: Swahili is now spoken across large parts of Africa, and the ruins of ancient towns, many with mosques and other buildings cut from shoreline coral deposits, record the coast’s heyday. But whether Swahili culture was indigenous to Africa or arrived from overseas has been an ongoing debate.
One seemingly fanciful account dates from the 1500s, when Arab chronic...
Source: ScienceNOW - March 29, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
New Research from Harvard School of Dental Medicine Finds Oral Health Workforce Expansion Improves Health Outcomes in Underserved Communities
WASHINGTON, March 27, 2023/PRNewswire/ -- New researchfrom Harvard School of Dental Medicine, sponsored by the Delta Dental Institute, and published in JAMA Health Forum, finds that expanding the dental workforce in Oral Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSA) through the National Health Service Corps (NHSC) would reduce the risk of dental caries among children in underserved areas, improve care, and cut costs.Lead researcher Dr. Sung En Choi, SM, PhD, studied the cost-effectiveness of expanding the dental workforce in underserved areas through the NHSC to evaluate the potential impact ...
Source: Dental Technology Blog - March 28, 2023 Category: Dentistry Source Type: news
Former CFTC Chairman: Regulator's Lawsuit Against Binance'Is a Big Deal '
"If you read the complaint, there is so much detail to it. It suggests that [CFTC] did have some information from people inside,” said the regulator's former chairman, now a research fellow at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. He told CoinDesk TV’s “First Mover” on Tuesday…#cftc #harvarduniversitys #coindesktvs #binance #changpengzhao #massad #obama (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 28, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Will ChatGPT kill college?
A message from a reader… The new ChatGPT just came out… Will it be the nail in the coffin for thousands of colleges across America? • At least with healthcare, you get something for your money. College, on the other hand... A reader wrote me after I called healthcare “America’s most broken…#college #chatgpt #gpt3 #khanacademy #khanmigo #gpt5 #gpt6 #harvard #yale (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 28, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Delta Dental Institute Launches Campaign to Drive Greater Diversity in the Oral Health Workforce
WASHINGTON, March 20, 2023/PRNewswire/ -- Today, in recognition of World Oral Health Day, the Delta Dental Institute is launching a new campaign, Driving Greater Diversity in the Oral Health Workforce, to help increase the number of oral health professionals from historically underrepresented groups.While racial and ethnic diversity among health professionals is linked to improved outcomes and greater health equity, the current oral health workforce does not reflect the changing demographics of the U.S. population. The Delta Dental Institute ' s campaign will drive toward a more diverse o...
Source: Dental Technology Blog - March 27, 2023 Category: Dentistry Source Type: news
The No. 1 best U.S. city to live in is Cambridge, Massachusetts
Niche released its list of the best U.S. cities to live in 2023. This month, Niche released its ranking of the best cities to live in America in 2023. The list ranked 228 cities by using data from the U.S. Census, FBI, Bureau of Labor Statistics and CDC in combination with millions of resident…#niche #uscensus #fbi #cdc #cambridge #massachusetts #mit #harvard #zillow #arlington (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 26, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Americans don't assume moms will stay home with their kids, but the gender pay gap, motherhood penalty, and childcare crisis makes it hard for them to keep …
For the most part, Americans have moved past the gender norms idealized by TV moms like June Cleaver from the 1950s sitcom Leave It to Beaver. During the COVID-19 pandemic, about 1.8 million women exited the workforce, many of them working mothers who left due to childcare issues as schools and…#leaveit #beaver #harrispoll #fortune #richardreeves #reeves #claudiagoldin #harvard #libbyrodney #carecom (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 26, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Think Of The Zoomers! Democrat Activists Worry TikTok Ban Would Be'Slap In The Face' To Young Voters
Think Of The Zoomers! Democrat Activists Worry TikTok Ban Would Be 'Slap In The Face' To Young Voters After a Thursday grilling of TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew at a congressional hearing over concerns about user data and Chinese spying, Democrats have found an odd way of defending the app which may…#zoomers #democrat #tiktok #shouzichew #democrats #ccp #genz #screenshot #harvard #aidankohnmurphy (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 25, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Harvard physicist plans Pacific expedition to find first interstellar meteor
Avi Loeb organizing $1.5m search to Papua New Guinea to look for what he says might be alien artifact that crashed into ocean in 2014A prominent Harvard physicist is planning a Pacific expedition to find what he thinks might be an alien artifact that smashed into the ocean.Avi Loebannounced that he is organizing a $1.5m ocean expedition to Papua New Guinea to look for fragments of an object that crashed off the coast of its Manus Island in 2014.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - March 24, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Maya Yang Tags: UFOs Nasa Harvard University Space Source Type: news
Harvard physicist plans expedition to find ‘alien artefact’ that fell from space
Avi Loeb organizing $1.5m search to Papua New Guinea to look for what interstellar object that crashed into ocean in 2014A prominent Harvard physicist is planning a Pacific expedition to find what he thinks might be an alien artefact that smashed into the ocean.Avi Loebannounced that he is organizing a $1.5m ocean expedition to Papua New Guinea to look for fragments of an object that crashed off the coast of its Manus Island in 2014.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - March 24, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Maya Yang Tags: UFOs Nasa Harvard University Space World news Science Source Type: news
Hostile TikTok hearing likely to deepen push for U.S. ban
TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew joined the illustrious club of Big Tech CEOs paraded before Congress for a public flogging, producing a viral spectacle that has hardened lawmakers' animus toward the Chinese-owned app. Why it matters: The Singapore-born, Harvard-educated Chew faced a near-impossible task…#tiktok #shouzichew #bigtech #singapore #harvard #chew #bytedance #randyweber #annaeshoo #democrat (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 24, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Q & A: Bioengineer Mireille Kamariza can ’t wait to see what’s next
When Mireille Kamariza joined theUCLA Samueli School of Engineering as an assistant professor of bioengineering in January, she brought with her an early record of innovation.Just a decade after earning her undergraduate degree at UC San Diego, Kamariza has already developed a potential point-of-care diagnostic test for tuberculosis. TB is the world ’s second-deadliest infectious disease, behind COVID-19, and still a serious burden in low-income countries.In the late 2010s, as a doctoral fellow at Stanford University, Kamariza and colleagues designed a system with a fluorescent “reporter” molecule attached to a sugar...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - March 23, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
The Hardest Colleges and Universities to Get Into
In April, the majority of prospective American college students will begin to hear back from the schools they applied to, hoping to get a long letter from their top choice. The application process can be a highly stressful and confusing one, it will in no small way dictate how the next chapter of…#sat #harvard #yale #carnegiemellon #colby #middlebury #nces (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 23, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Corporate leaders should be more honest with workers when job cuts are about performance, rather than the economy, a Harvard professor says
Employers shouldn't use layoffs as a way to cut low-performing workers, a labor expert told Insider. simplehappyart/Getty Images Companies in industries including tech and finance have recently laid off workers. Layoffs shouldn't be used as a way to cut low-performing workers, Harvard's Sandra…#harvard #sandrasucher #amazon #meta #facebookinstagram #whatsapp #generalelectric (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 23, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
