College of Health and Human Sciences 15 Apr, 2021
Charlotte Bright knew that only a very special job could lure her away from her 13-year career and associate dean position at the University of Maryland School of Social Work in Baltimore.
She was open to a leadership opportunity at a social work program that was focused on social justice and anti-oppression, with an emphasis on applied research. It couldn’t be too large a program, because she would want to stay closely engaged with the faculty, staff and students.
Then Bright saw a job opening at Colorado State University on a listserv from a professional association.
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Guilty.
Guilty.
Derrick Chauvin murdered
George Floyd, the hammer of justice sounded loudly on all three counts he faced.
The video of Chauvin’s neck on Floyd’s neck for more than nine minutes was damning enough. There was more, though. Throughout the ordeal, the smug, superior expression on Chauvin’s face told volumes about the disregard he had for Floyd’s life.
Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. Image via AP.
This wasn’t a routine arrest over Floyd’s passing of a counterfeit $20 bill. Chauvin’s action that day was racism at its diabolical worst.
Credit: University of Granada
Creativity the secret weapon of
Homo sapiens constituted a major advantage over Neanderthals and played an important role in the survival of the human species. This is the finding of an international team of scientists, led by the University of Granada (UGR), which has identified for the first time a series of 267 genes linked to creativity that differentiate
Homo sapiens from Neanderthals.
Molecular Psychiatry (Nature), suggests that it was these genetic differences linked to creativity that enabled
Homo sapiens to eventually replace Neanderthals. It was creativity that gave
Homo sapiens the edge, above and beyond the purely cognitive level, by facilitating superior adaptation to the environment compared to that of now-extinct hominids and providing greater resilience to ageing, injury, and disease.
Preserving physical and mental health helps older adults experiencing cognitive impairment stave off declines in cognitive engagement, a new study suggests.
“We found that declines in physical and mental health were associated with more pronounced cognitive disengagement,” says Shevaun Neupert, professor of psychology at North Carolina State University and corresponding author of the study published in
“The impact of declines in physical health was particularly pronounced for study participants who had more advanced cognitive impairment to begin with.”
There’s a lot of research showing that cognitive engagement can help older adults maintain cognitive health. However, the vast majority of that work has been done on healthy adults.
Interventions to reduce fear of cancer recurrence could be cost effective and improve patients quality of life. (
Psycho-Oncology)
A novel cancer vaccine tailored to a patient s specific tumor stimulated an immune response in its first clinical test, a patient with advanced pancreatic cancer. (
Washington University in St. Louis)
Janssen and Johnson & Johnson announced they will not pursue regulatory approval of the combination of apalutamide (Erleada) and abiraterone (Zytiga) plus prednisone for metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer after evaluating results of the phase III ACIS trial.
Almost half of patients with previously treated genetically defined acute leukemias responded to the oral menin inhibitor SNDX-5613 in a phase I trial, Syndax announced.