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Newswise: Gender-diverse teams produce more novel, higher-impact scientific discoveries, study shows
Released: 29-Aug-2022 3:15 PM EDT
Gender-diverse teams produce more novel, higher-impact scientific discoveries, study shows
University of Notre Dame

New research from Notre Dame examines about 6.6 million papers published across the medical sciences since 2000 and reveals that a team’s gender balance is an under-recognized, yet powerful indicator of novel and impactful scientific discoveries.

Released: 29-Aug-2022 3:00 PM EDT
Awareness, not mandatory GMO labels, shifts consumer preference
Cornell University

An increase in consumer awareness around GMO-related topics – such as news coverage of legislative debate – is linked to an increase in demand for non-GMO products, even in states that didn’t ultimately pass GMO labeling laws, a new Cornell University study finds.

Released: 29-Aug-2022 2:05 PM EDT
When immersed in sexual harassment, workers can’t identify it
Cornell University

People who work in industries with high levels of sexual harassment – including hospitality, retail, manufacturing and information – have a harder time identifying inappropriate workplace behavior, with only 57% of those surveyed identifying quid pro quo sexual harassment, according to new research from Cornell University’s ILR School.

Newswise: Experts say the discovery of Earthbound asteroids and comets needs improvement; too many satellites could prevent discovery
23-Aug-2022 5:55 PM EDT
Experts say the discovery of Earthbound asteroids and comets needs improvement; too many satellites could prevent discovery
Apollo Academic Surveys and Olin College of Engineering

A new survey of planetary defense experts from Apollo Academic Surveys and Olin College of Engineering reports that discovery of asteroids and comets needs improvement. In addition, the proliferation of commercial satellites could prevent them from identifying Earthbound asteroids and comets.

   
Newswise: Black-owned restaurants disproportionately impacted during pandemic
Released: 29-Aug-2022 11:40 AM EDT
Black-owned restaurants disproportionately impacted during pandemic
University of Washington

A new study led by the University of Washington uses cellphone location data to estimate the number of visits to Black-owned restaurants in 20 U.S. cities during the first year of the pandemic. The study finds that despite the "Black-owned" labelling campaign launched by companies such as Yelp, the number of visits to Black-owned restaurants dropped off after an initial spike and was inconsistent around the country.

   
Released: 29-Aug-2022 7:25 AM EDT
Maryland Smith Increases Flexibility in Relaunch of Online Master’s in Business Analytics
University of Maryland, Robert H. Smith School of Business

Maryland Smith will increase flexibility in its Online Master’s in Business Analytics program for early-to-mid-career professionals by replacing synchronous class sessions with “both asynchronous learning and periodic touchpoints with faculty.”

   
Newswise: Degree Programs Offer a Flight Plan for COVID-19 Air Travel Recovery
Released: 25-Aug-2022 5:05 PM EDT
Degree Programs Offer a Flight Plan for COVID-19 Air Travel Recovery
Arizona State University (ASU)

To meet the after-COVID demands for trained industry professionals, ASU’s robust roster of aeronautics degree programs is sending its grads into the airline industry as pilots, airfield operations specialists, airline dispatchers, flight staffing planners and air traffic controllers.

   
Newswise: LifeBridge Health Launches Mobile App for Patients
Released: 25-Aug-2022 3:00 PM EDT
LifeBridge Health Launches Mobile App for Patients
LifeBridge Health

LifeBridge Health has launched a new comprehensive mobile app for patients and consumers. Now available for download for iPhone and Android phone users, LifeBridge Health Mobile offers convenient and immediate access to the health system's services such the physician directory, patient portal and online scheduling. LifeBridge Health Mobile is just one piece of the health system’s overall strategy to improve the digital patient experience.

   
Released: 25-Aug-2022 1:30 PM EDT
CLA Names New and Reelected Members to its 2023 Board of Directors
Coin Laundry Association

The Coin Laundry Association (CLA) today announced 2023 board members who together with the board of directors will prioritize the organization’s focus and lead the CLA in its commitment to advance an evolving self-service laundry industry and improve the customer experience.

   
Released: 24-Aug-2022 4:35 PM EDT
Social media boycott of Goya did not harm sales
Cornell University

Calls for a boycott of Goya Foods products in 2020 actually caused the company’s nationwide sales to rise for a few weeks before subsiding to previous levels, according to new Cornell University research.

Released: 24-Aug-2022 4:05 PM EDT
Smartphones push consumers to prefer unique, tailored products
University of Florida

Using our smartphone — but not a borrowed phone — makes us more likely to choose products tailored to our style.

   
Released: 23-Aug-2022 2:00 PM EDT
Thunderbird to host panel of top NASA administrators and space sector leaders to discuss New Space and The Artemis I mega rocket launch
Thunderbird School of Global Management

The Thunderbird School of Global Management at Arizona State University is proud to host “The Road to Artemis” an unprecedented panel discussion of the development and implementation of the Artemis program including top leaders from across three Presidential administrations. This panel is scheduled to precede the historic Artemis 1 mission. Artemis 1 will include the first launch of the SLS (the most powerful rocket ever built) that will send the Orion space capsule on a pathfinder journey around the Moon and return it safely to Earth. The Artemis program will return humans to the Moon and land the first woman and first person of color on the lunar surface by as early as 2025. Learn how NASA, commercial, and international partners were able to collaborate, further enabling new knowledge and opportunities across the space sector, as the U.S. and Artemis partner nations make a long-awaited return to deep-space. This will be a singular panel involving top space policy leaders spanning

     
Newswise:  Pipelines for Progress
Released: 23-Aug-2022 12:30 PM EDT
Pipelines for Progress
Sandia National Laboratories

Sandia National Laboratories is sharpening its recruitment focus on select historically Black colleges and universities with its Securing Top Academic Research and Talent, or START, program.

Released: 22-Aug-2022 3:10 PM EDT
Will you still invest in me tomorrow?
University of Iowa Tippie College of Business

When entrepreneurs are casting about for venture capitalists to invest in their startup, one important aspect they should look at is if the VC has been involved in a crisis, especially lawsuits. If they have, they're more likely to stick with their venture during a crisis.

Newswise: WVU celebrates grand opening of Reynolds Hall with building’s namesake
Released: 22-Aug-2022 1:20 PM EDT
WVU celebrates grand opening of Reynolds Hall with building’s namesake
West Virginia University

West Virginia University will hold a grand opening ceremony to celebrate Reynolds Hall, the futuristic 186,000-square-foot business complex on Morgantown’s Waterfront made possible through the generosity of Bob and Laura Reynolds. The building is the new home of the John Chambers College of Business and Economics and its 3,700 students.

Released: 22-Aug-2022 8:55 AM EDT
The increase in funding for the IRS is not going create an army of agents that will come after you
Newswise

The Inflation Reduction Act includes $79 billion for the IRS. Many political figures are reacting incredulously to this long-sought budget increase. The Fox News host Brian Kilmeade has warned his viewers that “Joe Biden’s new army” of armed IRS agents could “hunt down and kill middle-class taxpayers that don’t pay enough”.

   
Released: 22-Aug-2022 8:30 AM EDT
This popular type of investment fund nearly always loses money
Ohio State University

Investors hoping for big returns by putting their money into trendy topics like work-from-home and the metaverse through exchange traded funds (ETFs) will instead likely face gross underperformance, a new study shows.

Released: 18-Aug-2022 2:35 PM EDT
Lahey Hospital & Medical Center and UMass Chan Medical School Sign Letter of Intent To Establish Regional Medical Campus
Lahey Hospital & Medical Center

Lahey Hospital & Medical Center and UMass Chan Medical School have signed a Letter of Intent to explore establishing a regional medical campus that would help train, develop and support the next generation of healthcare leaders.

Released: 18-Aug-2022 1:25 PM EDT
WashU Expert: Comparing annual inflation changes each month can distort reality
Washington University in St. Louis

John Horn, an economics expert at Washington University in St. Louis, explains the math of inflation and why focusing on the annual rate of change, rather than month-to-month inflation changes, makes an already bad situation look worse.

Released: 18-Aug-2022 11:30 AM EDT
Study confirms that speculation taxes are not an effective tool in curbing house prices
University of Waterloo

As the Ontario housing market enters a potentially volatile phase, new research from the University of Waterloo shows how tax policy has proven ineffective in controlling prices.

Newswise: Circular Economy to Boost the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
Released: 17-Aug-2022 12:05 PM EDT
Circular Economy to Boost the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
Tsinghua University Press

Circular economy is a brilliant concept that has found its way not only in elevating various aspects of our lives but also in solidifying future plans and goals for a sustainable society. In that sense, it also has high potential in achieving United Nations 2030 agenda for sustainable development goals (SDGs) that was adopted in 2015 with the motive of “transforming our world”.

Released: 17-Aug-2022 10:55 AM EDT
Men in Same-Sex Couples Suffer Earnings Decline When Preventative HIV-Medicine Is Available
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)

When expensive medicines that are proven to prevent HIV acquisition are available through employer-sponsored health insurance (ESI), annual earnings for men in same-sex couples decline and part-time employment increases. The labor market effects are largest for young white men, who are among those most likely to be taking HIV prevention drugs.

   
Released: 16-Aug-2022 3:40 PM EDT
Utah’s direct selling industry anchored over 38,000 jobs, made up over 70% of non-gold exports in 2020
University of Utah

Utah’s established direct selling industry anchored over 38,000 well-paying jobs and added significantly to state and local tax revenues as part of its 2020 statewide economic impacts, according to a first-of-its-kind report from the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute.

Released: 16-Aug-2022 12:20 PM EDT
Study: Long COVID continues to take a toll on state economy
University of Oregon

Like a case of long COVID-19 itself, the effects of the coronavirus continue to linger in pockets of the state and its economy. They affect Oregonians to a wide range of degrees, ranging from the toll of missed work and lost wages due to long COVID to disruptions with child care and an uneven recovery in the workforce, among others. Those are among the findings in the latest report by University of Oregon researchers.

   
Released: 15-Aug-2022 1:05 PM EDT
University of Pittsburgh Library System Receives $1 Million Dollar Grant from the Henry L. Hillman Foundation for August Wilson Archive Outreach and Engagement
University of Pittsburgh

The University of Pittsburgh Library System has received a $1 million grant from the Henry L. Hillman Foundation. The grant will support the preparation of the August Wilison Archive, the collected history of one of America's greatest playwrights. The grant is the biggest in the history of the Library System.

Newswise: Economists Name Best Practices of Corporate Social Responsibility in COVID Crisis
Released: 11-Aug-2022 2:05 AM EDT
Economists Name Best Practices of Corporate Social Responsibility in COVID Crisis
Scientific Project Lomonosov

RUDN economists analyzed trade risks during the COVID-19 crisis and revealed what corporate social responsibility measures can mitigate them. The results are published in Risks .

   
Released: 10-Aug-2022 2:05 PM EDT
Strategy, Psychology Behind Effective Negotiating
University of Maryland, Robert H. Smith School of Business

Maryland Smith experts explain the groundwork for professionals to “'think on their feet’ when the next situation arises to negotiate – whether in product pricing, partnership agreements or the next job offer.”

   
Newswise: Simultaneous climate events risk damaging entire socioeconomic systems
3-Aug-2022 10:05 AM EDT
Simultaneous climate events risk damaging entire socioeconomic systems
PLOS Climate

In heatwaves where heat and drought combine, effects can destabilize interlinked sectors, including health, energy and food production systems.

   
Newswise: Johns Hopkins Carey Business School’s new vice dean to focus on faculty impact via research, innovation, and diversity
Released: 10-Aug-2022 1:05 PM EDT
Johns Hopkins Carey Business School’s new vice dean to focus on faculty impact via research, innovation, and diversity
Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School

Johns Hopkins Carey Business School names new vice dean to build on foundation of research and outreach, expand the graduate school's positive impact on society through research and innovation, and champion diversity in all its forms.

Released: 10-Aug-2022 11:05 AM EDT
Mayo Clinic Platform_Accelerate announces second cohort of AI startups
Mayo Clinic

ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mayo Clinic Platform_Accelerate has announced its second cohort of health tech startups, including national and international businesses. The program will help seven companies develop and validate their artificial intelligence-driven health care products or solutions and advance their business plans.

   
Released: 10-Aug-2022 11:05 AM EDT
American Chiropractic Association Endorses Brooklyn Bedding and Helix Sleep Mattresses
American Chiropractic Association

ACA has endorsed several mattresses from Brooklyn Bedding and Helix Sleep, sister brands that build mattresses on demand and in a variety of comfort levels at their Phoenix, Ariz. manufacturing facility.

   
Released: 10-Aug-2022 10:05 AM EDT
Sandia Science & Tech Park continues to strengthen economy
Sandia National Laboratories

Since 1998, companies and organizations in the Sandia Science & Technology Park have paid nearly $7.2 billion in wages and generated more than $4 billion in taxable personal consumption, according to a new report.

   
Released: 10-Aug-2022 9:55 AM EDT
GW Researchers Find Remote Work Is A Double-Edged Sword for Women’s Career Equality
George Washington University

Remote work grew in popularity when COVID-19 forced lockdowns across the globe. Working virtually has as many advantages as it does disadvantages; but, for women especially, researchers at the George Washington University are finding virtual work can harm a woman’s career as much as it can help it.

Newswise:Video Embedded st-louis-innovation-ecosystem-talent-capital-facilities-and-networks
VIDEO
Released: 9-Aug-2022 5:05 PM EDT
St. Louis Innovation Ecosystem: Talent, Capital, Facilities, and Networks
Donald Danforth Plant Science Center

The St. Louis innovation ecosystem is a unique mix of talent, capital, facilities, and networks that create opportunities for startups to thrive and for individuals to find meaningful careers.

Released: 9-Aug-2022 2:05 PM EDT
Men from ethnic minorities earn 10% less than their white counterparts inside the same firm
City University London

New research has found there are significant differences in the earnings between white and ethnic minority workers who are colleagues in the same workplace.

   
Newswise: Strengthening Puerto Rico's Power Grid
Released: 9-Aug-2022 2:05 PM EDT
Strengthening Puerto Rico's Power Grid
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

EGRASS helps prepare and fortify critical structures to protect against the worst consequences of new hurricanes.

   
Released: 9-Aug-2022 1:45 PM EDT
Consider yourself a foodie? Dig into these latest headlines from the Food Science channel
Newswise

Below are some of the latest articles that have been added to the Food Science channel on Newswise, a free source for journalists.

       
Newswise:Video Embedded arizona-state-university-poised-to-help-close-microchip-manufacturing-gap
VIDEO
Released: 9-Aug-2022 1:05 PM EDT
Arizona State University poised to help close microchip manufacturing gap
Arizona State University (ASU)

Arizona State University, along with a host of state economic development and business leaders, has been deeply engaged to support Sen. Mark Kelly’s efforts to build a consensus in Washington, D.C., for the CHIPS and Science Act. That’s not by accident.

Newswise: Kentucky Childrens Hospital celebrates 25 years of serving Kentucky’s children
Released: 9-Aug-2022 10:05 AM EDT
Kentucky Childrens Hospital celebrates 25 years of serving Kentucky’s children
University of Kentucky

On Aug. 23, Kentucky Children’s Hospital (KCH) will celebrate its 25th anniversary of serving the children of the Commonwealth. The hospital has grown since 1997, in both physical capacity and in the types of specialty care for every child, from infant to young adults.

   
Released: 8-Aug-2022 3:30 PM EDT
Is Business Innovation the Cure for What Ails US Health Care?
University of Virginia Darden School of Business

Health care-related expenditures accounted for a record 19.7 percent of U.S. GDP in 2020, according to the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

   
Released: 8-Aug-2022 7:05 AM EDT
Cut tax incentives and multinational firms will cut investment and employment
University of Iowa Tippie College of Business

A new study from the University of Iowa's Tippie College of Business finds that when the European Union overruled tax incentives offered by four European countries to U.S. multinationals, subsidiaries of those firms reduced their investment by an average of $7.6 million.

Released: 5-Aug-2022 3:25 PM EDT
Maryland Smith to Host ‘Negotiation Skills’ Course in DC
University of Maryland, Robert H. Smith School of Business

Maryland Smith will host a three-day, in-person professional certificate course at its Washington DC campus designed for professionals at all levels looking to negotiate more effectively – whether it’s product pricing, partnership agreements or the next job offer.

   
Released: 4-Aug-2022 1:20 PM EDT
Does China’s research and development funding reach the right firms?
Yale University

Chinese investments in research and development (R&D) have burgeoned since the turn of the century, increasing more than tenfold in absolute terms since 2000 and reaching a high of 2.4 percent of GDP in 2020.

   
Released: 4-Aug-2022 12:45 PM EDT
Women in STEM Careers Face Bias
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)

Women are excluded from promotions when firms look at potential, rather than proof, says Dr. Nishtha Langer, an associate professor in the Lally School of Management at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.



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