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Weill Cornell Medicine will launch a suite of innovative programs to foster and sustain a more diverse faculty through the support of a $5 million grant from the Mastercard Impact Fund.

/PRNewswire/ -- Weill Cornell Medicine will launch a suite of innovative programs to foster and sustain a more diverse faculty through the support of a $5...

Seton Hall University Thursday, March 11, 2021 By Amaris Roberts Last month, the Center for Faculty Development and a panel of distinguished faculty members joined forces to present a stimulating, literature-based dialogue on the Civil Rights Movement. The discussion emphasized new interpretations and highlighted books that offer more perspective to this monumental movement. As lifelong learners, we must grapple with the fact that the history taught in childhood and adolescence does not capture...

Sullivan Museum-directed Lunch and Learn will examine work of 16th century armor designer Daniel Hopfer Metallurgical craftsmanship and scholarship will complement the 2021 Peace and War Virtual Summit on this week’s Norwich University events calendar. From noon to 1 p.m. Wednesday, Norwich history professor Dr. Emily Fisher Gray will present “The Work of Daniel Hopfer: 16th Century Armorer, Artist, and Religious Radical” in a virtual Lunch and Learn presented by the Sullivan Museum and H...

AI reveals current drugs that may help combat Alzheimer’s New treatments for Alzheimer’s disease are desperately needed, but numerous clinical trials of investigational drugs have failed to generate promising options. Now a team at Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Harvard Medical School (HMS) has developed an artificial intelligence-based method to screen currently available medications as possible treatments for Alzheimer’s disease. The method could represent a...

This highly practical text surveys the myriad legal and ethical issues that social workers encounter both in daily practice and under special circumstances. Its initial section presents concepts in law and ethics that unite practitioners, researchers, and academics in the field, such as confidentiality, informed consent, and the interplay between social work and administrative and judicial systems. A selection of representative cases illustrates legal aspects involved in providing services to f...

Seton Hall University Monday, March 1, 2021 Ecce Dolor by Georges Rouault, 1936. On Thursday, March 11th the Bernard J. Lonergan Institute presents Professor Emeritus Jerome Miller of Salisbury University and " From Vulnerability to Passion: A Few Thoughts Sprung from Tears". This event serves as the Bernard J. Lonergan Institutes Spring 2021 lecture. We put a premium on being in control of our lives–being able to handle, deal with, manage, situations so we wont be overwhelmed and incapacita...

ACS Georgia and Athens: Rap on Trial: Criminalizing Black Culture Over the last three decades, as rap became increasingly popular, prosecutors saw an opportunity: they could present the sometimes violent, crime-laden lyrics of amateur rappers as confessions to crimes, threats of violence, evidence of gang affiliation, or revelations of criminal motive—and judges and juries would go along with it. Now, an alarming number of aspiring rappers are imprisoned. No other form of creative expression ...

To the editor: Can the Copper Country afford to fund an experimental Finnish-themed K-8 charter school in addition to supporting the existing public schools? Proponents of the Copper Island Academy, a K-8 charter school to be located near the airport, say they intend to attract an unspecified number of students away from existing Hancock and Calumet elementary and middle schools along with the tax-supported state school aid dollars that would go along with them. Since state authorized chart...

February 24, 2021 Share this with FacebookShare this with TwitterShare this with LinkedInShare this with EmailPrint this (© Shutterstock) Before taking office last month, President Joe Biden promised that advancement of racial equity would be one of the top priorities of his administration. We asked several members of the Yale faculty to describe policy changes within their sphere of expertise that could address systemic barriers that have historically denied opportunities to people of color ...