Page 56 - Cognitive Sciences News Today

2021 Honorees: NFL Alumni Health, the Klein Family), Feng Zhang, PhD and the Global Immunization Action Network Team (GIANT) and Joseph P. Vacanti, MD.

Nonprofit EmbraceRace helps parents explain race to children ALEX DANIELS of The Chronicle of Philanthropy, The Chronicle of Philanthropy June 3, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Andrew Grant-Thomas reads to his daughter, Lena Grant-Giraud, on the back porch at their home in Amherst, Mass., on Monday, May 24, 2021. Grant-Thomas and his wife, Melissa Giraud, started the nonprofit EmbraceRace in 2016 when they found few resources to help them talk with their young daughters about race. The nonprofit’...

A gush of money from corporations, foundations, and others was given to EmbraceRace in the wake of George Floyd’s murder. Now the group is looking to keep the funds flowing to help fight racism.

Caption: A diverse array of speakers including a panel of students, faculty, and staff discussed "Outreach and Opportunities in STEM" (left to right and top to bottom): Laura Schulz, Eboney Hearn, Junyi Chu, Kailande Cassamajor, Hector De Jesus Cortes, Tyler Bonnen, and Liora Jones. Credits: Image courtesy of the Picower Institute. Previous image Next image A powerful series of speakers at the Picower Institute for Learning and...

1st June 2021 10:23 am 1st June 2021 10:23 am MIT researchers have developed Digger Finger, a sharp-tipped robot finger equipped with tactile sensing to that allows it to identify buried objects. In experiments, Digger Finger dug through granular media such as sand and rice, correctly sensing the shapes of items it encountered. The researchers said the robot might one day perform various subterranean duties, such as finding buried cables or disarming buried bombs. The research will be prese...

For Memorial Day weekend, we offer this glimpse at our campus in full bloom.

Over the years, robots have gotten quite good at identifying objects - as long as they're out in the open. Discerning buried items in granular material...

Findings on Neanderthal oral microbiomes offer new clues to evolution, health Grauers gorilla specimens, showing dental deposits -- likely a result of their herbivorous diet. May 24, 2021 A new study looking at the evolutionary history of the human oral microbiome shows that Neanderthals and ancient humans adapted to eating starch-rich foods as far back as 100,000 years ago, much earlier than previously thought. The research, funded in part by the U.S. National Science Foundation, suggests that...

Learn more about the Trans-Atlantic Platform’s new funding opportunity at this informational webinar May 27, 2021 12:00 PM  to  May 27, 2021 2:00 PM Zoom Recovery, Renewal and Resilience in a Post-Pandemic World is a new international funding opportunity supporting social, behavioral and economic science research on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Organized through the Trans-Atlantic Platform, the endeavor is a partnership bet...

Date Time TSU helps a project for VR rehabilitation of disabled people TSU Scientific and Educational Center for Advanced Research in Social and Cognitive Sciences is developing a partnership with the VR GO project team. The goal of the project is to make rehabilitation for people with disabilities accessible and more effective; for this, a program of motor rehabilitation using Virtual Reality technologies is being developed. The TSU side, using methods of working with big data, helps the auth...