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The Doctor of Audiology program at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center has climbed into the top 25 of audiology programs nationwide, ranking No. 22 in the U.S. News & World Report’s Best Graduate Schools list for 2024. The AuD program moved up four spots from its previous ranking of No. 26 in the nation. Since 2013, the program has had 100% job placement among graduates.
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7 months ago Read more at UTHSC News

Purdue University graduate dietetics program integrated new technology to enhance dietitians’-in-training early experience in working one-on-one with clients who are wanting to improve their health via dietary changes. The program used $40,000 of a $90,500 instructional equipment grant from the purdue College of Health and Human Sciences to purchase new video cameras, microphones, cordless earpieces and other tools. This hardware has been paired with new audio/video recording software called VALT.
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7 months ago Read more at Purdue University

Students creatively used humanities and social science research to design a game world set in an imagined future shaped by AI. Professor of History John Monroe led the competition along with Kelli Fitzpatrick, graduate student in the Department of English. The competition awarded a first prize of $750, a second prize of $250, and an honorable mention.
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7 months ago Read more at ISU College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) has won funding through the Prebys Foundation’s “Prebys Research Heroes” Program. The program celebrates female scientists pursuing “high-risk, high-reward” research projects. LJI scientists study the immune system from every angle. This research is an important step in developing vaccines and life-saving therapies against ovarian cancer.
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7 months ago Read more at La Jolla Institute for Immunology

WASP-43 b has an average temperature of about 2,280°F (1,250°C) on the dayside. The temperature map also shows that the nightside is covered in thick, high clouds.
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7 months ago Read more at Science@NASA

Five Stanford undergraduates have been awarded the 2024 Barry Goldwater Scholarship. This year’s recipients are Julie Chen, Cyrus Hajian, Jaeah Kim, Andrei Mandelshtam, and Sidra Xu. Each Goldwater Scholar receives a sum equal to the cost of tuition, mandatory fees, books, and room and board, up to a maximum of $7,500 per year.
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7 months ago Read more at Stanford University News

Sarah Teichmann started a group at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology in 2001 and became an MRC program leader in 2006. In 2013, she moved to be the first and only joint faculty member across the EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute and Wellcome Sanger Institute, and was appointed Head of Cellular Genetics at the University of Cambridge in 2016. She has also co-founded the Human Cell Atlas (HCA) international consortium, which she co-leads
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7 months ago Read more at Technology Networks

This year, 12 graduate students and four undergraduates at UNC-Chapel Hill received fellowships from the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program. Their research covers several STEM-related fields, including biology, sociology, genetics and anthropology. This fellowship is the oldest of its kind directly supporting graduate students in STEM. Federal funding through a three-year stipend provides educational support, professional development and international research opportunities.
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7 months ago Read more at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

researchers from the Asteroid Institute and the University of Washington revealed an even bigger bounty: 27,500 newly identified solar system bodies. That is more than were discovered by all of the world’s telescopes last year.
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7 months ago Read more at The New York Times

Unstoppable Brain by Dr. Kyra Bobinet is now available. The book is published with Forbes Books, the exclusive business book publishing imprint of Forbes, and is available today on Amazon.
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7 months ago Read more at PR Newswire