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FILE - In this Oct. 20, 2020, file photo, students sit in a distanced pattern from their classmates during the coronavirus outbreak in a Kindergarten class at School 16, in Yonkers, N.Y. President Joe Biden says he wants most schools serving kindergarten through eighth grade to reopen by late April 2021. But even if that happens, many schools in urban areas that serve high concentrations of minority students are likely to stay closed. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File) (Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)
The transition from pre-K to kindergarten is a very critical time in development for a child. In a survey by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, teachers report nearly half of incoming kindergartners have trouble adjusting.
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CHAPEL HILL – UNC Kenan-Flagler’s Entrepreneurship (Eship) Center, an affiliated center of the Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise, announced Tuesday that affiliated-faculty at the Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP) and the Duke Innovation & Entrepreneurship Initiative (Duke I&E) are participating with the Eship Center, Opportunity Hub (OHUB) and 100 Black Angels and Allies Fund, to create more diverse, equitable, and inclusive entrepreneurial ecosystems.
The goal of this collaboration and engagement from multiple institutions is to address issues like DEI at a systemic organizational level, and to create more equitable ecosystems through the delivery of education, best practices, and actionable frameworks.
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Gearing Up: Manufacturing Extension Partnership Center Responses to COVID-19 Pandemic
On January 29, 2021, the Center for Urban and Regional Studies (CURS) at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill announced a new report, Gearing Up: MEP Center Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic, documenting the wide range of support the Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP), a program under U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology, is delivering to U.S. manufacturers responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. The report details how, despite the pandemic’s profound impacts on manufacturing, MEP Centers are helping manufacturers safely operate and meet the nation’s critical needs for personal protective equipment (PPE).
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A mandated, nonmedical switch from adalimumab (Humira) to a biosimilar for psoriasis did not lead to a drop-off in drug retention, according to a Danish registry analysis.
A year after switching to a biosimilar, 92.0% of patients remained on treatment versus 92.1% of patients treated with adalimumab originator. Rates of discontinuation for any reason or for adverse events (AEs) did not differ between the two patient groups, although treatment with a biosimilar was associated with more dermatologic AEs.
The two groups also did not differ significantly with respect to change in disease severity, Nikolai Loft, MD, of the University of Copenhagen, and co-authors reported in