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Dr. Amanda Sheffield Morris is a Regents Professor and the George Kaiser Family Foundation Chair in Child Development at Oklahoma State University in the Department of Human Development and Family Science. She is also an adjunct professor at the Laureate Institute for Brain Research (LIBR) and a co-investigator on the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) national study. Dr. Morris is a developmental scientist with research interests in parenting, socio-emotional development, early life adversity, and risk and resilience. She is the Editor in Chief for the Journal of Research on Adolescence and is an Associate Editor for the journal Adversity and Resilience Science: Research and Practice published by Springer/Nature. She is co-author of the recently published book Adverse and Protective Childhood Experiences: A Developmental Perspective published by the American Psychological Association.
Merck Announces Second Cohort of Safer Childbirth Cities Organizations Committed to Improving Maternal Health Equity and Reducing Preventable Maternal Deaths in the US
Merck known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, announced today its funding support of a second cohort of nine city-based projects across the country expanding its Safer Childbirth Cities initiative to additional communities that have a high burden of maternal mortality and morbidity to help improve maternal health outcomes and reduce racial inequities in care. The newly selected projects will focus on … Merck (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, announced today its funding support of a second cohort of nine city-based projects across the country expanding its Safer Childbirth Cities initiative to additional communities that have a high burden of maternal mortality and morbidity to help improve maternal health outcomes and reduce racial inequities in care. The newly selected
New Career Skills Program Chooses Tulsa For Start-Up Headquarters
A new company called Satellite has chosen Tulsa for its start-up headquarters. The start-up helps people by teaching new skills for a tech sales job while giving students their freedom by making the program and jobs fully remote if they so choose.
Satellite CEO Chris Waldron said he chose Tulsa for their home base because this city has “proven time and time again that the city has both a great quality of life and cost of living”. He said they are diving into their mission of helping people learn specific new skills because everyone should have equal opportunities when it comes to a career they love.
Tulsa Community College Seeing Drop In High School Students Taking Dual Credit
Tulsa Community College said they are seeing a drop in their enrollment numbers for high school students who are taking college courses.
They are encouraging students to enroll. Dual Credit classes allow high school students to get both college and high school credit at the same time, but the college said they are seeing fewer students sign up this year. So, when they get to a four-year institution, they transfer those credits, and they can take courses in their major sooner, said Mary Cantrell, Tulsa Community College.
Cantrell, the George Kaiser Family Foundation Endowed Chair for Concurrent Enrollment, said the COVID-19 pandemic is having an impact on the program.