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Advancing the Social Justice Impact of Climate Change Initiatives
Many people think of sustainability as only being about the environment and natural resource preservation. In fact, most probably do not think social work and climate change belong in the same sentence. But the increase in…
Study from USC Schaeffer Center Reveals Limited Promotion of Potentially Predatory Medical Payment…
Fifty million Americans are on a financing plan to pay off medical or dental bills, with one-quarter of those bearing some interest. Increasingly, medical payment products (MPPs) – which include credit cards and loans administered by…
Kyushu University Hosts Digital Humanities International Symposium ‘Connecting Humanities
On March 13th, at the Jonathan KS Choi Cultural Center of Japan on Kyushu University's Ito Campus, Kyushu University's Faculty of Humanities and Japan’s International Institute for Digital Humanities jointly hosted an…
Kyushu-Okinawa and Taiwan Universities Forge International Collaboration Agreement, Bridging…
On April 22, 2024, the Kyushu Okinawa Open University (KOOU), an organization of 11 national university corporations in the Kyushu-Okinawa region, and The University Academic Alliance in Taiwan (UAAT), an academic platform for…
Yoshua Bengio, from Université de Montréal, Honored as one of TIME Magazine’s 100 Most…
TIME magazine today named artificial-intelligence pioneer Yoshua Bengio, a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Operations Research at Université de Montréal, and founder and scientific director of Mila – Quebec AI institute,…
Carbon-Based Tiny Robots Could Revolutionize Various Industries
In explaining his research, the professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering alludes to the 1966 science-fiction film Fantastic Voyage, about a submarine vessel and its crew shrunk to microscopic size so they can travel through a…
University of Alberta Research Reveals Children’s Social Circumstances Influence Outcomes in…
New research has found that social determinants of health — including race, language and socio-economic deprivation — shape how children and their families seek care at emergency departments.
In a systematic review and…
UC Davis Launches Center for Advanced Veterinary Surgery, Elevating Care Standards
The UC Davis Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital has expanded its Orthopedic Surgery Service to open the Center for Advanced Veterinary Surgery. Modeled after human health inpatient/outpatient facilities, the center provides advanced…
University of California, Davis Celebrates Election of 10 Faculty Members as AAAS Fellows
Ten faculty from UC Davis are among 502 newly elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the society announced today (April 18). AAAS fellows are scientists, engineers and innovators who have been recognized…
Study Finds Coal Train Pollution Heightens Health Risks and Disparities
Trains carrying loads of coal bring with them higher rates of asthma, heart disease, hospitalization and death for residents living nearest the rail lines, according to a new study from the University of California, Davis.
The study, …