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March 8, 2017 March 8, 2017 A series presented by Penn State covers a variety of food-related topics, that in totality begins to answer one core question: How do we choose what to eat, where, with whom, and when? A series presented by Penn State covers a variety of food-related topics, that in totality begins to answer one core question: How do we choose what to eat, where, with whom, and when? Food sustains life and is central in cultures around the world. Now, food is the focal point of a new...

Marley’s marvelous success New rare genetic syndrome goes from a collection of symptoms to successful treatment in less than two years Diagnosing a rare medical condition is difficult.  Identifying a treatment for it can take years of trial and error. In a serendipitous intersection of research expertise, an ill patient — in this case a child — and innovative technology, Bachmann-Bupp Syndrome has gone from a list of symptoms to a successful treatment in just 16 months.   The paper ch...

Child with Bachmann-Bupp Syndrome successfully treated in just 16 months Diagnosing a rare medical condition is difficult. Identifying a treatment for it can take years of trial and error. In a serendipitous intersection of research expertise, an ill patient in this case a child and innovative technology, Bachmann-Bupp Syndrome has gone from a list of symptoms to a successful treatment in just 16 months. The paper chronicling this lightning-fast scientific response to the Bachmann-Bupp Syndrome...

East Carolina University College of Health and Human Performance has received a new director of the School of Social Work, Kirk Foster, who hopes to grow the program through outreach and research. Foster said he undertook his new position on July 1 and began in the field of social work as a church pastor in Ferguson, Missouri. After receiving his master’s in social work from Washington University in St. Louis Missouri, and finding a passion for research in social work, he pursued his docto...

Dean Laura Kohn-Wood – School of Education and Human Development Laura Kohn-Wood, dean of the School of Education and Human Development, in her office at UM. Kohn-Wood considered pursuing a career in boxing before pursuing academia. Photo credit: Laura Kohn-Wood Laura Kohn-Wood became dean of the School of Education and Human Development in July 2018. She first came to the University of Miami in January 2009, going on to serve as chair of the Department of Educational and Psychological Studie...

Will Increasing Prenatal Tests Prevent Stillbirths? 19/07/2021 Photo: Wolfgang Moroder/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 In 2018, Kristen Miller, a high school social studies teacher from Cleveland, had an uneventful pregnancy for the first two trimesters – “textbook perfect,” she said. But then at her 32-week prenatal visit, she was told she had excess amniotic fluid, a condition that can slightly increase the risk of complications. The following morning she went to work but not...

JAKARTA (THE JAKARTA POST/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - The Indonesian government is still mulling over whether to extend emergency public activity restrictions, a senior minister has said, adding further uncertainty over the fate of the policy amid soaring daily Covid-19 infections and deaths across the country. Coordinating Maritime Affairs and Investment Minister Luhut Pandjaitan, who was tasked with coordinating the governments Covid-19 response in areas affected by the curbs, said he and other mini...

Posted in: ERNANDO SUNEducation is much like sunshine for the soul and right now in Hernando County, the public has the opportunity to help provide educational enrichment for those who need it the most. The Florida Organization of Human Services Conference is seeking workshop proposals for its "Resilient Horizons: Breaking Down Barriers," Flohs 2021 Virtual Conference, October 6-7, 2021. The Florida Organization of Human Services Conference (FLOHS) is a state of Florida non-profit organizatio...

Fertility rates have declined dramatically in most countries in Asia and Latin America in the last 50 y, with slower declines in sub-Saharan Africa (1, 2). For example, the total fertility rate (TFR), the number of children a woman would have over her lifetime if she experienced the age-specific fertility rates observed in a given year, fell from around 6.0 or higher to around or below the replacement rate of 2.1 between 1960 and 2019 in all of the nine large Asian and Latin American countries ...

Photo illustration by The Chronicle Four young scholars met at a conference in 2013, and decided they’d stick together, forming a group to see one another through the stresses and successes of being early career academics. All were Black, and they shared a research interest: counseling and psychology. One by one, the group’s members reached the milestone that cements any academic career: tenure. Two went up for tenure in 2018, a third last spring. This year was to be Paul C. Harris’s tur...