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Share this article Share this article LOUISVILLE, Ky., March 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- ScholarRx is pleased to announce that Dr. Aviad "Adi" Haramati has joined the ScholarRx Academic Advisory Board, which is chaired by Dr. Charles Prober of Stanford University. Dr. Haramati is a Professor of Integrative Physiology and the co-director of the Graduate Program in Integrative Medicine & Health Sciences at Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC). He received a PhD in Physiology from the Universi...

Comics arent just for kids anymore A giant coronavirus looms over masked city-dwellers in this image from the cover of COVID Chronicles, a collection of short graphic stories to be published by the Penn State University Press in early 2021. Penn State scholars and PSU Press are leaders in the field of graphic medicine, which uses comics to tell complex stories about human health and well-being.  Image: courtesy PSU Press / © Deloupy Comics arent just for kids anymore Cherie Winner Februar...

February 23, 2021 The founding dean of Campbell’s School of Engineering will be the next leader of the American Society for Engineering Education. Dr. Jenna Carpenter was elected ASEE president-elect, the national organization announced in February. Carpenter will serve a one-year term as president-elect beginning in June, followed by a full year as ASEE president. ASEE is a global society of individual, institutional and corporate members whose vision is “excellent and broadly accessible e...

 E-Mail IMAGE: A longtime ARRS member, Dr. Sanjeev Bhalla has lectured during many instructional courses, helped plan two Annual Meeting Categorical Courses, and remained active faculty in the Approach to Diagnosis Review... view more  Credit: Courtesy of Dr. Bhalla Leesburg, VA, February 3, 2021--The American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) is pleased to announce Sanjeev Bhalla, MD of the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology (MIR) at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Lou...

Allissa Richardson. Photo by DaJuana Jones. The Annual Morgan Lecture Richardson will explore how in the last five years Black smartphone witnesses launched the largest social justice movement in American history. In her new book, Bearing Witness While Black: African Americans, Smartphones and the New Protest Journalism, Richardson explains why we cannot ignore the mobile testimonies of the afflicted and what is at risk when we do. Richardson is an assistant professor of journalism at the Uni...

The Rockwell Center for American Visual Studies announces online symposium R. Sikoryak, Cover illustration for Constitution Illustrated published by Drawn % Quarterly, 2020. STOCKBRIDGE, MASS .-The Rockwell Center for American Visual Studies, the scholarly arm of Norman Rockwell Museum, announced a slate of speakers and topics for its annual symposium, Picturing Freedom: A Century of Illustration. For the second year in a row this event will happen virtually on Zoom over two days – Friday, Jan...

College of Education and Behavioral Sciences Monday, January 11th, 2021 Nominations for the WKU College of Education and Behavioral Sciences’ Distinguished Educator Awards will close Jan. 31. The awards will celebrate the individual and significant contributions educators make to the teaching profession. From literacy to innovation, WKU will recognize 10 P-12 educators within the university’s service region based on their inspiring solutions in the classroom. This is the second year of the ...

Hosted by Paul Holdengräber, The Quarantine Tapes chronicles shifting paradigms in the age of social distancing. Each day, Paul calls a guest for a brief discussion about how they are experiencing the global pandemic. On Episode 140 of The Quarantine Tapes, guest host Naomi Shihab Nye is joined by Helen Drutt English. Helen is a longtime champion of the contemporary craft movement. She and Naomi discuss her history with crafts and collecting, digging into the tension between mechanization an...