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As schools reopen, Asian American students are missing from classrooms Moriah Balingit, Hannah Natanson and Yutao Chen, The Washington Post March 4, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Nancy Lin, left, with her kids, Miranda Gao, 12, and Stanley Gao, 13, in Philadelphia. She decided to maintain their remote education because of issues with a school building's condition.Photo by Rachel Wisniewski for The Washington Post. It's happening in well-to-do Pakistani households in the suburbs of Washington and among Chinese restaurant workers in Philadelphia. It's happening among weary Filipino nurses in Queen...

Matthew Zipple The three-year fellowships empower a select group of extraordinarily promising scholars to investigate some of the most fascinating questions and pressing issues facing humanity. For the second consecutive year, the Klarman Fellowships drew more than 260 applicants. “The cutting-edge ideas and creative energy that postdocs bring are key to building an intellectual environment that can attract and retain the world’s best faculty,” said Cornell President Martha E. Pollack. “The Klarman Fellowships provide Cornell with a regular supply of the sparks that ignite new thinki...

email article Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) has been one of the most difficult cancers to treat -- mainly because it doesn't offer much in the way of therapeutic targets, but that is starting to change. "Triple-negative breast cancer, for many years at least, has not had a clear target that we can attack," Debu Tripathy, MD, chairman of the Department of Breast Medical Oncology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, told MedPage Today. "It has always been a challenging subtype to treat." "For hormone-receptor positive cancers we can use endocrine ther...

email article Brain metastases are one of the most common and difficult-to-treat occurrences in metastatic breast cancer. They are found in 10% to 30% of patients. In patients with HER2-positive breast cancer, the rate of brain metastases is even higher -- up to 50%. Initial treatments for brain metastases include locally directed therapy with surgical resection, stereotactic radiosurgery, and/or whole-brain radiation therapy. Unfortunately, the rate of intracranial progression with these therapies is high. Even more problematic, most systemic therapies have limited efficacy due to th...