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The University of Northern Colorado’s (UNC) Monfort College of Business (MCB) has made career readiness a central aspect of its curriculum for years. Through internships and other immersive learning opportunities, students will soon gain further valuable, hands-on experiences that will help them in their studies and in the workforce. Starting in the spring of 2025, MCB is partnering with Coursera to provide new opportunities for students to gain micro-credentials in a variety of topics.
On any given day, once a class is dismissed, the sidewalks north of the University Center are filled with University of Northern Colorado (UNC) students navigating to and from Central and West Campus. Students walking single file often fill the concrete pathways that wrap around the center point of campus, rarely stepping on the gently sloping 3.4 acres of Kentucky bluegrass nearby.
Hundreds of venomous snakes. King Cobras. Spitting cobras. Mambas. Gaboon vipers. African vipers. South American vipers. North American vipers. Every type of snake imaginable. That’s what fascinated Steve Mackessy, Ph.D., from an early age, thanks to his part-time job in high school — working at a reptile supply company. He’s been enthralled with these venomous creatures ever since. Now, he is a professor of Biology in UNC’s College of Natural and Health Sciences.
Forty-four films from around the globe will hit the silver screen at Rutgers University-New Brunswick during the Spring 2025 New Jersey Film Festival, which runs on select dates starting Friday, Jan. 24, through Friday, Feb. 21. “We have a really excellent line-up of films,” said Al Nigrin, who is the executive director, curator and founder of the Rutgers Film Co-op/New Jersey Media Arts Center, which presents this event and other film festivals.
New Jersey native Caterina Belle Azzarello-Nichols earned an M.A. from the University of Northern Colorado’s Educational Psychology program. Continuing in the program as a doctoral student, she’s conducting research in mathematics readability and student educational dispositions.
Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory and Yale University report the first image of the structure of a biohybrid solar fuel catalyst using cryo-electron microscopy.
A chessboard knight can’t reach a given square twice as fast as the king. Christian Táfula Santos has proved it, using the famous Fibonacci sequence.
Wildfires have turned the Far North into a carbon emitter, putting the region’s permafrost at risk, according to an alarming new report co-authored by UdeM researcher Oliver Sonnentag.
“When you’re deciding whether to turn left or right, or to eat the chocolate cake or the carrots, what’s happening in your brain?”
This simple question masks a complex web of brain activity. Computational neuroscientists are determined to untangle the web.
As feral hog populations increase in Texas and the U.S., they create desirable conditions for disease-carrying ticks and increase the risk for an outbreak of African swine fever virus, ASFV.
With a nod to bringing local, fresh ingredients directly to our dinner plates, Michigan State University researchers will soon be applying their own farm-to-table approach to the fight against prostate cancer. From therapeutic ingredient production to research and testing — it’s all happening at MSU.
Anxiety is the number one mental disorder in the United States. University of Miami researchers share ways to mitigate it during the holiday season.
سواء من حيث الإفراط في تناول الطعام، أو الإصابة بمرض أو الشعور بالتوتر أو التعب الشديد، فإن الجدول المزدحم لفعاليات العطلات قد يؤثر سلبًا على الصحة، كما صرّحت صفية ديبار، الحاصلة على بكالوريوس الطب والجراحة ممارس عام وخبير التعامل مع الضغوط في مايو كلينك هيلثكير في لندن وفي هذا التصريح، أجابت د. ديبار عن أسئلة شائعة وقدمت نصائح للمساعدة في قضاء تجمعات العطلات بصحة جيدة.
Seja pelo excesso de comida, ao contrair uma doença, se sentir estressado ou extremamente cansado, um calendário cheio de festas no final de ano pode afetar a sua saúde, diz Safia Debar, Bacharel em Medicina e Cirurgia, médica generalista e especialista em gestão de estresse na Mayo Clinic Healthcare em Londres. Neste alerta do especialista, a Dra. Debar responde a perguntas frequentes e oferece dicas para ajudá-lo a poder enfrentar os encontros festivos de forma saudável.
Ya sea por comer en exceso, contraer una enfermedad, sentirse estresado o extremadamente cansado, un calendario lleno de fiestas de fin de año puede afectar su salud, dice Safia Debar, Licenciada en Medicina y Cirugía, médica generalista y experta en gestión del estrés en Mayo Clinic Healthcare en Londres. En esta alerta del experto, la Dra. Debar responde preguntas frecuentes y ofrece consejos para ayudarle a poder enfrentar las reuniones festivas de manera saludable.
Whether it’s overeating, catching an illness or feeling stress or sheer exhaustion, a busy calendar of holiday festivities can take a toll on health, says Safia Debar, MBBS, a general practitioner and stress management expert at Mayo Clinic Healthcare in London.
Where did Earth’s water come from? It’s a fundamental scientific question that has never been answered. In fact, NASA reports that we can only observe and understand 5% of the universe — with a whopping 95% remaining a complete mystery because of unobservable dark matter and dark energy.
If your heart rate increases each time you hear the word “injection,” you’re not alone. Every 1 in 4 adults has a fear of needles—a fear that most attribute to an experience they had when they were children.For kids who visit the hospital frequently, anxiety around even routine procedures might interfere with each visit and even lead to long-term trauma.
In a commentary published in JAMA, experts at the Rutgers Institute for Nicotine & Tobacco Studies have issued a call to action to head off the proliferation of nicotine pouches based on lessons learned from electronic-cigarette regulation
Plasma many times hotter than the surface of the sun swirls inside of a large device. From the outside, the device looks like a metal ring surrounded by scaffolding and walkways. But inside, the device is creating the conditions needed to achieve fusion – the process that powers our sun and every star.
Chulalongkorn University (Chula), Thailand’s pre-eminent higher education institution, and Google Cloud today announced the inauguration of ChulaGENIE, a continuous application delivery project that makes the world’s most advanced generative AI (gen AI) capabilities safely, securely, and freely available to Chula’s entire community. ChulaGENIE will be initially available to Chula staff and faculty members in January 2025, with all students receiving access in March 2025. ChulaGENIE stands for ‘Chula’s Generative AI Environment for Nurturing Intelligence and Education.’
City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK) recently hosted two inspiring events featuring Nobel Laureates, offering students and faculty members a rare opportunity to engage with world-renowned scientists.
A new survey from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine reveals that more than half of Americans (55%) say they are extremely or somewhat tired during the holiday season.
Twelve million light-years away lies the galactic masterpiece Messier 83, also known as the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy. Its swirling spiral arms display a high rate of star formation and have been host to six observed supernovae. This image was captured with the Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera, mounted on the U.S. National Science Foundation Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, a Program of NSF NOIRLab.
A 12 millones de años luz se encuentra la joya galáctica Messier 83, conocida también como la Galaxia del Molinillo Austral. Sus brazos espirales muestran una elevada tasa de formación estelar y además ya se han registrado seis supernovas observadas en ella. Esta detallada imagen se obtuvo en Chile con la Cámara de Energía Oscura del Departamento de Energía de los Estados Unidos, que se encuentra montada en el Telescopio de 4 metros Víctor M. Blanco, en Cerro Tololo, un Programa de NOIRLab de NSF.
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has awarded $75 million to a consortium of leading global institutions, including the Pulte Institute for Global Development at the University of Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs, to enhance the effectiveness of poverty alleviation programs through research.
A research project sheds light on the body image benefits of pup play, a role play in which people pretend to be dogs.
Prof. Dr. Wilert Puriwat, President of Chulalongkorn University, led a team of staff from Property Management of Chulalongkorn University (PMCU) and Five for All Foundation in opening Siam Square Walking Street for All. Siam Square was transformed into a walking street for all for the first time. The project kickstarted with 2 days of performances by disabled performers who showcased their various talents, engaging with the public through activities such as music, sports, dance, and fashion shows. The event also featured products and services by people with disabilities all over Siam Square.
His newly treated patients might show significant improvements on their eye chart tests, but Aaron Nagiel, MD, PhD, will tell you that the truest signs of visual progress come through the texts he receives from parents days, weeks, and months after their child’s treatment.There’s no shortage of stories: A toddler truly animals at the zoo for the first time.
A Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center researcher will share findings from a late-breaking abstract at the 2024 Society of Urologic Oncology Annual Meeting. The study demonstrated a potentially effective treatment for patients with bladder cancer who no longer respond to the common therapy, Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG).
Check out the second of a two-part series exploring how artificial intelligence helps researchers from around the world perform cutting-edge science with the lab’s state-of-the-art facilities and instruments. Read part one here. In this part you’ll learn how AI is playing a key role in helping SLAC researchers find new galaxies and tiny neutrinos, and discover new drugs.
Filip Stevic is a “happy, goofy kid” who loves trucks, dinosaurs and books, according to his parents, Sunny and Milos, who live in Nottingham, Maryland. But the family’s holiday season was nearly upended when a golf ball-sized tumor was discovered inside Filip’s head.
Check out the first of a two-part series exploring how artificial intelligence helps researchers from around the world perform cutting-edge science with the lab’s state-of-the-art facilities and instruments. In this part you’ll learn how SLAC researchers collaborate to develop AI tools to make molecular movies, speeding up the discovery process in the era of big data.
The same virus that causes chickenpox can also reemerge as shingles, causing a painful string of rashes. A Penn State Health family medicine physician discusses the symptoms and why he recommends the shingles vaccine for adults 50 and older and adults with weakened immune systems.
The of the American Society of Hematology (ASH) will take place in San Diego, Calif. and online Dec. 7-10. Improving access to life-saving therapies for blood disorders is the theme of many presentations by Fred Hutch Cancer Center experts, including: Meta-analyses show socioeconomic factors limit access to transplants and clinical trials, highlighting strategies to overcome barriers.
In SMU’s Mursion Simulation Environment, located in the Simmons School of Education and Human Development, undergraduate and graduate students learn to manage classroom conflicts and advance student understanding by interacting with teen avatars.
The holiday season is a time to relax, enjoy gatherings with family and friends and celebrate traditions, but it also can create stress.
Recently, a team at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC – James) completed its first gene therapy for a patient with hemophilia B, the first at an adult medical center in Ohio.
Designed for 10–17-year-olds who do not require inpatient psychiatric care but are at elevated risk, the L-SPARC Clinic offers a lifeline of personalized, evidence-based care. Within one week of…
Regener-Eyes LLC, the distributors of Regener-Eyes Professional Strength and Regener-Eyes LITE, recently launched their new preservative-free bottles with back flow prevention.
Mark Kevin Jones is a true Renaissance man in nuclear physics. Throughout his career, he has garnered many accomplishments, and he’s even worn quite a few hats in his three decades at Jefferson Lab. Now, Jones has been recognized for his work by his peers by being named a Fellow of the American Physical Society “For scientific leadership in experimental studies of the fundamental nucleon electromagnetic form factors, including the surprising discovery of significant variation in the large momentum behavior of the proton electric form factor, and for developing new detection systems enabling the studies.”
Decades of scientific work turned the tide on a fatal disease and yielded insights into immunity, vaccines, and more
Muay Thai is fast on the rise and has become yet another form of soft power that generates income for the country. Boxing stadiums are popular attractions that attract tourists to witness this special form of Thai martial art.
The Korea Institute of Fusion Energy (KFE) has begun its 2024 plasma experiments, aiming to secure advanced plasma operation technologies.
“Historically, the Thai language is primarily rooted in the Tai-Kadai language family, with some adaptations over time, especially in basic vocabulary used for common or general concepts. Some Thai words were influenced by the Khmer language, and others were borrowed from languages such as Pali and Sanskrit,” according to Assistant Professor Dr. Kiat Thepchuaysuk, Director of the Center for Thai as a Foreign Language (CTFL), Chulalongkorn University.
The Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials (KIMM), an institute under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Science and ICT, has announced the development of a groundbreaking technology that significantly enhances semiconductor packaging productivity while reducing manufacturing costs.
The impact of Donald Trump’s second presidency, dubbed by some as “Trump 2.0,” on climate and energy was the center of discussion at a recent roundtable event with Victor, who was joined by Thad Kousser, professor in the UC San Diego Department of Political Science and Varun Sivaram, who served in the Biden-Harris administration as senior advisor to U.S.
More than two decades ago, Mitra Kamali, 4 1/2 months pregnant with twins at age 45, was having lunch with her husband in Houston when out of nowhere she suffered a major seizure.
Jorge Fresneda, associate professor at the Martin Tuchman School of Management at NJIT, has developed the Consumer Normalcy Scale (CNS), an innovative tool designed to assess how inclusive and dignified shopping experiences are for people from diverse backgrounds and with various characteristics.
With artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT rapidly gaining traction among students and teachers alike, it’s no surprise the topic took center focus at NJIT’s 8th Annual STEM Forum for School …
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