Overcoming Isolation in the Online College Classroom
Many online colleges and universities are facing attrition issues as students struggle to feel a connection with peers and instructors in the classroom (Source: Disabled World)
Source: Disabled World - March 28, 2024 Category: Disability Tags: Disability Education Source Type: news
As Kansas nears gender care ban, students push university to advocate for trans youth
As Kansas prepares to ban gender-affirming care for minors, students at the state's largest university taking action (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - March 28, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
News at a glance: Domestic U.S. postdocs, edited pig organs, and the Milky Way ’s central black hole
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South Korea joins Horizon Europe
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol (center) and EU leaders announced a research funding deal.
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South Korea will participate in the €95.5 billion ($104 billion) Horizon Europe R&D program, the first East Asian country to do so, the European Commission announced last week. South Korean scientists will compete for grants on an equal footing with their European counterparts; in return, South Korea will contribute an as-yet-undisclosed amount to the 7-year program, which expires in 20...
Source: ScienceNOW - March 28, 2024 Category: Science Source Type: news
A muon collider could revolutionize particle physics —if it can be built
Young people supposedly enjoy the luxury of time, but perhaps not if they’re particle physicists. For decades, physicists have peered into the universe’s inner workings by smashing subatomic particles together at ever higher energies. But the next highest energy collider may not be built for 50 years. And Tova Holmes, 34 and a particle physicist at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, worries her career could slip away before she ever sees such a machine. “I will be definitely not still working, possibly not alive,” Holmes says.
That’s one reason she and dozens of her contemporaries are pushing to develo...
Source: ScienceNOW - March 28, 2024 Category: Science Source Type: news
Effects of empathy on the bidirectional relationships between problematic smartphone use and aggression among secondary school students: a moderated network approach - Wu W, Zou X, Tang Q, Tao Y, Wang S, Ma Z, Li M, Liu G.
BACKGROUND: Existing literature on the relationship between problematic smartphone use (PSU) and aggression has primarily focused on examining their unidirectional association, with limited attention paid to the bidirectional nature of this relationship, p... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 28, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Early-career researchers lament potential loss of Europe ’s largest transdisciplinary science conference
EuroScience Open Forum gave early-career researchers an opportunity to interact with policymakers and scientists from across Europe.
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Over the past 2 decades, the EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF) has brought together scientists, policymakers, businesspeople, journalists, and citizens to discuss European science and its broader policy and societal implications. For early-career researchers, it has offered a unique platform to network beyond their own field, access career development resources, raise awareness of the issues they face, and build up momentum to tackle them.
But as the pre...
Source: ScienceNOW - March 28, 2024 Category: Science Source Type: news
Four Canadian school boards sue Snapchat, TikTok, and Meta for'disrupting education '
The school boards sued the tech companies for disrupting students' education. Four Canadian school boards have announced a lawsuit against Meta, Snapchat and TikTok "for disruption to the education system". The school boards, which are the largest in the Canadian province of Ontario, alleged that…#meta #tiktok #ontario #metaplatformsinc #facebookandinstagram #snapinc #snapchat #bytedanceltd #tonyajohnson #bytedance (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 28, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The Institution or Its Students? Evaluating Notions of Good Education
New research reveals perceptions of good schools are heavily dependent on the preparation of the students entering them (Source: Disabled World)
Source: Disabled World - March 28, 2024 Category: Disability Tags: Disability Education Source Type: news
‘ Shorter toilet queues are here to stay! ’
Queues for the women ’ s toilets are swiftly becoming a thing of the past, with the UK ’ s first ‘ squat and go ’ urinals now a “ permanent fixture ” at UK events. (Source: University of Bristol news)
Source: University of Bristol news - March 28, 2024 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: Alumni, Announcements, Business and Enterprise, Current students, Undergraduate, Student life, Postgraduate; Faculty of Arts; Press Release Source Type: news
Death Is Inevitable. Doctors Should Be Prepared to Manage It Appropriately.
(MedPage Today) -- It was the second week of 2015, and instead of joining my medical student peers in our first week of clinical year, I was racing north on I-95 from New York with my mom.
Her older sister was in the intensive care unit in a hospital... (Source: MedPage Today Primary Care)
Source: MedPage Today Primary Care - March 28, 2024 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Predictors of college students' concern about campus gun violence: a comparison of men and women - Reyns BW, Fisher BS, Sloan III JJ.
The current study addressed whether and why college students express concern about on-campus gun violence, based on comparisons of multivariate logistic regression models of college men and women. Data collected by the ACHA-NCHA III during the spring of 20... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 28, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Ep. 23, Human Behavior and Sustainability Conference
Listen as professor William P. Barnett and Stanford student Charlotte Kramer host a discussion with Jon A. Krosnick, the Frederic ...#williampbarnett #stanford #charlottekramer #jonakrosnick #frederic (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 28, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
OpenAI ’s app store draws investors and students seeking artificial aids
CEO Sam Altman wants customised chatbots to supercharge its business but data suggests ‘GPTs’ have limited appeal#samaltman (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 28, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The future economy will suffer if Canada axes the carbon tax
Kevin Yin is a contributing columnist for The Globe and Mail and an economics doctoral student at the University of California, Berkeley. The carbon tax is the single most effective climate policy that Canada has. But the tax is also an important industrial strategy, one that bets correctly on the…#kevinyin #globeandmail #pierrepoilievres #conservatives #liberal #liberals #atlantic #conservative (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 27, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Emergency Department Culture May Deter Medical Students From Selecting Specialty
WEDNESDAY, March 27, 2024 -- Emergency medicine (EM) culture may deter medical students from selecting the specialty, according to a study published online Feb. 9 in Academic Emergency Medicine Education and Training.
Rosemarie Diaz,... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - March 27, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
