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JMIR Publications and Swedish Consortium Bibsam Join Forces in a Landmark Agreement to Advance Open Access
Open access publisher JMIR Publications, in partnership with Sweden’s academic consortium Bibsam, with sales support by Accucoms, recently announced a landmark national agreement to eliminate the burden of article processing charges (APCs) for researchers in Sweden.
FASEB Announces 2024 Howard Garrison Advocacy Fellowship
The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology is now accepting applications for the 2024 Howard Garrison Advocacy Fellowship. This opportunity is open to biological and biomedical researchers in all career stages who wish to engage in collaborative exploration of science advocacy and communications.
Prebys Foundation Announces $7 Million “Prebys Research Heroes” Program to Improve Medical Research through Diversity
The Prebys Foundation has launched a $7 million program designed to bring more diverse perspectives into the laboratory and yield ground-breaking medical research.
Latino researchers converge at ASU to discuss everything from migration to gender
Researchers from all over the nation, including the Duke, Yale, Harvard, Notre Dame and Dartmouth, to name a few, will take part in this convergence of LatinX knowledge and entrepreneurship.
Chula Inventions and Innovations Win Several International Awards at ITEX 2023
Congratulations to Chula researchers and innovators for winning several awards from the 34th International Innovation & Technology Exhibition 2023 (ITEX 2023) held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on May 11-12, 2023.
Future workers will need to master AI “dark arts”
Workers of the near future have less to fear from AI than they think if they are open to learning how to use AI as a tool that extends their capabilities. Becoming a proficient user of AI “magic” will be a key skill, according to Digital Science CEO Dr Daniel Hook.
Learning From Disaster
UCLA researchers who oversaw a long-running mental health response program after a devastating 1988 earthquake in Armenia offer lessons learned in disaster response that are especially important amid the COVID-19 pandemic, a plague of gun violence, and the increasing threat of climate-related disasters.
Physics Today: Science Suffers Inside Vacuum of War
In Physics Today, science writer Toni Feder describes the impact of war on Ukrainian and Russian scientists in the June issue cover article, “In Ukraine, science will need rebuilding postwar; in Russia, its isolation could endure.”
Rutgers Researcher Aims to Protect and Regenerate Corals Through Coral Genomics with $500K NSF Grant and Award-Winning Video
A Rutgers researcher will use genomics, genetics, and cell biology to identify and understand the corals’ response to heat stress conditions and to pinpoint master regulatory genes involved in coral bleaching due to global warming and climate change. The researcher and his team will use a novel gene-editing tool as a resource to knock down some gene functions with the goal of boosting the corals’ abilities to survive.
Rutgers to Expand Entrepreneurship Training Programs for Researchers as Partner in New NSF I-Corps™ Hub: Northeast Region
As a key player in developing and transforming innovators into entrepreneurs that improve people’s lives, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey will expand its entrepreneurship training programming and further equip faculty and student researchers with the skills and strategy needed to transition their discoveries into technologies and products, as a partner in the newly created NSF I-Corps™ Hub: Northeast Region.
Nobel Prize winner named Fellow of the Royal Society
M. Stanley Whittingham, a 2019 Nobel Laureate and distinguished professor at Binghamton University, State University of New York, has been named a Fellow of the Royal Society.
AAAS and Los Alamos announce 2020 Fellows
Five Los Alamos scientists have been named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Rush University Is Bringing Innovative Education To The Table
Rush University’s Center for Innovative and Lifelong Learning (CILL) is leading the way in innovative education in the field of orthopedics. Launching the Rush International Spine Education (RISE) initiative, the world’s first academically supported, international program in blended learning for spine specialists.
Game-based learning platform will make education accessible to refugees
A team of Wichita State University researchers is working on making education more accessible to refugee learners.
Memorial Sloan Kettering Awards and Appointments
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) announces its most recent awards and appointments for the institution’s physicians, scientists, nurses, and staff.
Public Health Leadership Paramount to Emerging Coronavirus Pandemic
In the 1960s, public health officials led the U.S. and worldwide efforts that resulted in smallpox becoming the first human disease ever eradicated from the face of the earth. FAU researchers and collaborators discuss the urgent need for public health leadership in the wake of the emerging coronavirus pandemic.
St. Jude researchers among the most highly cited in 2019
Eighteen scientists from St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital were recently named Highly Cited Researchers for 2019 by the Web of Science Group.