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The National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) participated in an international symposium to bring together scientists from around the world to the Caribbean. The symposium synergized conversations, collaboration, and networking, to create new bridges and opportunities between Caribbean scientists, students, and the larger scientific community. One of the aims of the symposium has been to create a hub for relevant science, including radio astronomy, in the region with collaboration between scholars across the world and Caribbean academics.
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8 months ago Read more at National Radio Astronomy Observatory

A team at Montana State University published research this month that shows how RNA, the close chemical cousin to DNA, can be edited using CRISPRs. The work reveals a new process in human cells that has potential for treating a wide variety of genetic diseases.
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8 months ago Read more at Phys.org

Marshall did much more than teach me the science of medicine, it cultivated the art of it, too. To become a physician, we spend hours memorizing how to treat heart failure, how to recognize a COPD exacerbation, and the most likely causes of meningitis in a newborn baby. It is beautiful to share in someone’s joy, such as news that their cancer is in remission or the birth of their first baby.
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Valentina Rodriguez Aguado ’24 (CLAS) is graduating with a bachelor’s degree in sociology, a minor in Africana studies, and a home and community at UConn. What drew you to your field of study? I enjoy unraveling the threats of social injustice and delving into readings which dissect racial and social systems. At first, I was a mentee because I was on academic probation, but I worked my way
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8 months ago Read more at University of Connecticut

NASA has paused science activities for the Hubble Space Telescope. Faulty readings from this particular gyro also caused Hubble to be placed in safe mode in November 2023. The space telescope has been delivering stunning views of the cosmos since its launch in 1990.
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8 months ago Read more at Space.com

STEM Three students have been awarded prestigious graduate research fellowships through the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) The five-year fellowship includes three years of financial support, including an annual stipend of $37,000 and a $16,000 educational allowance. The 2024 recipients of the NSF GRFP are Edward (Cole) Fluker, a senior chemical engineering major in the College of Engineering and Computer Science.
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8 months ago Read more at Syracuse University News

Bay Area sculptor and installation artist Mark Baugh-Sasaki will be working with Stanford ocean scientists over the coming months as the inaugural Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability Visiting Artist. During his residency he will work with Stanford researchers who are examining a 4-meter-long core of Southern Ocean sediment formed over more than 1,000 years. The team is investigating the core’s fossilized snapshot of southern Ocean ecosystems when industrial whaling nearly eradicated blue whales.
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Jelani Hannah was awarded a Joint Task Force Initiative Postdoctoral Fellowship. The fellowship aims to support innovative physics research by increasing diversity among early-career scientists. He was a graduate researcher at the University of Chicago when he learned about the fellowship.
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New research from the University of Kansas found an intervention based on the science of reading and math effectively helped English learners boost their comprehension, visualize and synthesize information, and make connections that significantly improved their math performance. The intervention, performed for 30 minutes twice a week for 10 weeks with 66 third-grade English language learners who displayed math learning difficulties, improved students’ performance when compared to students who received general instruction.
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8 months ago Read more at The University of Kansas

Allison Keeler is an assistant professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Chan Medical School. She applied early to RIT, out of her high school in eastern Pennsylvania. After a research position at Duke University, she earned her Ph.D. in biomedical sciences from the UMass Medical School, where she now works.
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8 months ago Read more at Rochester Institute of Technology