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The University of Delaware School of Nursing made changes to in-person learning to ensure students continued to get the critical exposure to hands-on practice needed for success in their career. In-person simulations were expanded from one hour to four hours and observers were added to help third-year nursing students learn from different perspectives. Heiddy DiGregorio, director of simulation for SON, said many of the changes have resulted in greater independence among students and a better...

 E-Mail Babies learn the difference between "us" and "them" fairly early in life. Social categorization -- the process of dividing the world into groups based on features such as gender, race and nationality -- can be a useful strategy when youre new to the world and trying to process a flood of information with your developing brain, according to UC Santa Barbara developmental, evolutionary and social psychologist Zoe Liberman. The act of creating groups -- for instance, all the objects that ...

Updated Nov 23, 2020 Inside the rise of "no problem," "no worries" and so on. asiseeit via Getty Images In recent years, "youre welcome" seems to have gone out of favor, replaced by "no problem," "no worries" or "uh huh." “No problem!” “No worries!” “Anytime!” “Of course!” “Sure thing!” “Uh huh!” These are some of the many ways people commonly respond to “thank you.” But what happened to the classic “you’re welcome”? Over the years, American etiquette experts, ...

Honors for Aaron Hyman, Daeyeol Lee, Ian Phillips, and Todd Shepard By Hub staff report / Published April 23, 2021 Aaron Hyman, an assistant professor in the Department of History of Art, has been awarded two grants to support publication of his book Rubens in Repeat: The Logic of the Copy in Colonial Latin America (forthcoming in August, Getty Research Institute). The book received both the Historians of Netherlandish Art fellowship and a Wyeth Foundatio...

(Photo: James Byard/Washington University) April 22, 2021 SHARE Chancellor Andrew D. Martin and four other faculty members of Washington University in St. Louis were elected members of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the academy announced April 22. The others are Deanna Barch, John Baugh, Pascal Boyer and Holden Thorp. Founded in 1780, the academy honors exceptional scholars, leaders, artists and innovators and engages them in sharing knowledge and addressing challenges facing the w...

Michael J. O’Brien was born in Houston in 1950 and graduated from St. Thomas High School in Houston in 1968. His undergraduate degree is from Rice University (1972) and his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin (1977). After graduation he served as a research associate at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln until 1980, when he joined the University of Missouri as an assistant professor of anthropology and director of the American Archaeology Division, the research arm of the anthropol...

"My advice would be to try to start from a place of understanding, I think it's hard to close the gaps that divide people in terms of their own opinions and perspectives... if you don't first start, by trying to understand where the other person is coming from." MacNamara, Ph.D. shared in part.

OU professor Meta Carstarphen spoke about her vision for the new Gateway to Belonging course during a Thursday forum hosted as part of the search for director of the program. Joshua Nelson, chair of the search committee for the director, introduced   Carstarphen as the second candidate in the webinar’s series. Adrienne Carter-Sowell, who has served associate head of diversity, equity and inclusion in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Texas A&M University, spoke...

Adrienne Dixson, one of the candidates for director of OU’s new Gateway to Belonging course, has withdrawn from the search.  According to a Thursday email from Joshua Nelson, chair of the director search committee, Dixson’s webinar on April 23 has been canceled, and all other webinars will proceed as scheduled.  Dixson, a professor of critical race theory and education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, was scheduled to appear in the final webinar as one of four ...