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Get our free LIBN e-alerts & breaking news notifications! AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File Experts look at business in a post-pandemic era By: Adina Genn February 19, 2021 Comments Off on Experts look at business in a post-pandemic era   That’s the topic of an Adelphi University panel discussion on Tuesday, Feb. 23. The discussion, “The Digital Transformation of Business in the Post-pandemic Era,” is a virtual event, which runs from 3 to 5 p.m. It will cover the impact of the pandemic...

Date Time COVID-related Depression Linked to Reduced Physical Activity A multi-institutional team of researchers followed university students to identify factors linked to depression and anxiety The United States spends more than $200 billion every year to treat and manage mental health. The onset of the coronavirus pandemic not only has deepened the chasm for those experiencing symptoms of depression or anxiety; the chasm has also widened, affecting more people. New...

Pennsylvania [US], February 11 (ANI): A multi-institutional team of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, University of Pittsburgh, and University of California, San Diego found that 61 per cent of surveyed university students were at risk of clinical depression, a value twice the rate prior to the pandemic. This rise in depression came alongside dramatic shifts in lifestyle habits.

February 11, 2021 MACOMB, IL - - Western Illinois University Master of Science in Quantitative Economics graduate student and Master of Business Administration alumna (2019) Marine Foray, of Lyon, France, has been invited to share her research by the London School of Economics and Johns Hopkins University at a joint conference this month. The event, which will be held virtually Friday, Feb. 12 and Friday, Feb. 19, is a special conference on experimental insights on behavioral economics o...

In many places, the debates over reopening are fraught. But in a survey, experts broadly agreed that elementary schools didn’t need vaccines to open safely.

HBKU professor applies game theory expertise for PPE supply challenges  04 Feb 2021 - 8:02 Dr. Luluwah Al Fagih (left) and Professor Jean-Christophe Nebel The Peninsula In the face of unprecedented global demand for medical resources, Assistant Professor in Engineering Management and Decision Sciences at the College of Science and Engineering (CSE) at Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU),  Dr. Luluwah Al Fagih, has developed a game theory-based model that can be deployed to enhance stock man...

February 3, 2021 MACOMB/MOLINE, IL -- Western Illinois Universitys accountancy and business degree programs have maintained their accreditation by AACSB International -- The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. Western is part of an elite group of higher education institutions to achieve AACSB accreditation, according to College of Business and Technology Dean Craig Conrad. A total of 882 institutions across 57 countries and territories have earned AACSB accreditation i...

February 2, 2021 MACOMB/MOLINE, IL - - The Western Illinois University Business Analytics program has graduated its first student, Elijah Elkerton, of Minneapolis, MN. The Illinois Board of Higher Education (IBHE) approved a new Bachelor of Business in business analytics at Western Illinois University to begin in Fall 2018. Elkerton, who joined Westerns graduate program in analytics, Master of Science in Applied Statistics and Decision Analytics (ASDA), this spring, not only chose to com...

Did Closing Schools Save Lives Or Cost Lives? The Debate Continues at 4:00 am NPR In November, I reported for NPR on a scientific paper that estimated millions of years of life could be lost due to prolonged school closures in the U.S. — far more, in fact, than might be lost by keeping schools open. The paper has since been corrected and critiqued. The central question it tried to answer remains. The papers author, Dimitri Christakis is a pediatrician at Seattle Children...