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Credit: The MIT PRESS, 2020. In "Mercury Stories," Henrik Selin and Noelle Eckley Selin examine sustainability through analyzing human interactions with mercury over thousands of years. They explore how people have made beneficial use of this volatile element, how they have been harmed by its toxic properties, and how they have tried to protect themselves and the environment from its damaging effects. Taking a systems approach, they develop and apply an analytical framework that can inform othe...

This year's lineup includes an impressive list of authors, including Vancouver sisters Naomi Eliana Pommier Steinberg and Myriam Steinberg.

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Feb 16, 2021 G.O.B. to Launch Belize COVID-19 Cash Transfer Program This afternoon, the Ministry of Human Development, Families and Indigenous Peoples’ Affairs announced the return of the COVID-19 Relief Programme, but this time under the name, Belize COVID-19 Cash Transfer Program. The ministry has partnered with the National Bank of Belize Limited, Digi and the Belize Social Investment Fund to provide short-term emergency cash to twenty-one thousand five hundred households. The ben...

Florida International University Search February 15, 2021 at 3:06pm FIU’s undergraduate elementary education program is a national and statewide leader in driving greater teacher diversity in the community and maintaining selective academic admissions requirements, according to the National Council on Teacher Quality. FIU is among only 58 of 1,256 teacher preparation programs to earn the highest distinction nationally by NCTQ, a non-partisan, non-profit research and policy institution. The un...

HIN A new study funded by the National Institutes of Health will evaluate the effects of remdesivir in pregnant women who have been prescribed the drug to treat COVID-19. The study, which will be conducted at 17 sites in the continental United States and Puerto Rico, aims to determine how pregnant women metabolize the drug and whether there are any potential side effects. “Pregnant women with COVID-19 are at high risk for hospitalization, for intensive care admission and for needing ventilato...

World view Despite the pandemic, Vice Provost James Keenan, S.J., reports new advancements in global engagement for Boston College Vice Provost for Global Engagement James Keenan, S.J. (Lee Pellegrini) The coronavirus has made it a challenging time for global outreach in academia, given international travel restrictions and financial uncertainties throughout higher education. But the Boston College Office of Global Engagement, under the direction of first-year Vice Provost James Keenan, S.J., h...

 E-Mail The brains neural activity is irregular, changing from one moment to the next. To date, this apparent "noise" has been thought to be due to random natural variations or measurement error. However, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development have shown that this neural variability may provide a unique window into brain function. In a new Perspective article out now in the journal Neuron, the authors argue that researchers need to focus more on neural variability to fu...

 E-Mail UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- In a new study, Penn State researchers demonstrated that facilitating researcher-policymaker interactions in rapid response processes can influence both how legislators think about policy issues and how they draft legislation. Penn State professors Max Crowley, associate professor of human development and family studies, and public policy, and Taylor Scott, assistant research professor in the Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center, co-direct the Research...

AIOU Launches Virtual Teachers Training Academy Portal Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) has established a Virtual Teachers Training Academy Portal at the Lahore Regional Centre for teachers across Pakistan. The portal has been developed in collaboration with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), and the non-profit corporation ALIGHT, Pakistan. The Vice-Chancellor (VC) of AIOU, Prof. Dr. Zia Ul-Qayyum, addressed the inaugural ceremony of the portal on Tuesday and said that the in...