Dr. Karina Elizabeth Vázquez, Community-Based Learning Director in the Department of Latin America, Latino, & Iberian Studies at the University of Richmond, has been selected as the 2024 Council on Undergraduate Research – Arts and Humanities Faculty Mentor Awardee.
Researchers at the University of South Australia have investigated how often people visit and actively participate in local events and how this affects their sense of place or their connection to their community.
A new study co-authored by public policy and political science scholars from the George Washington University, University of California, Riverside, Duke University and Northeastern University found that the crackdown by Twitter/X also significantly reduced the number of misinformation posts by users who stayed on the platform but had been following those who were kicked off.
You don’t need to be musically inclined to parent musically. But incorporating music in your family’s daily life can foster deeper connections with each other—and with music itself.
The only medical school in South Georgia graduated its second class of doctors in May.
Southland RISE, a collaborative between the trauma recovery programs of the University of Chicago Medicine and Advocate Health Care, is providing $150,000 of funding to 19 programs that will reach as many as 8,500 community members.
Penn Medicine helps bridge medical science with the arts in the world’s first project to image double basses.
Dr. John Anderson, W.H. Drury Professor of Ecology and Natural History at College of the Atlantic (COA) in Bar Harbor, ME, has been selected as the 2024 Council on Undergraduate Research – Goldwater Scholars Faculty Mentor Awardee.
The Louis Armstrong Center for Music and Medicine at Mount Sinai is celebrating its 30th anniversary.
Is honesty the best policy? New research from Derek Harmon, assistant professor of strategy, shows that when filing a special purpose acquisition company initial public offering, or SPAC-IPO, being honest about uncertainty may be key to funding success.
Univerisity of Colorado Boulder professor Jennifer Ho, editor of a new collection about global Anti-Asian racism, shares insights on what’s driving it and how communities are fighting back.
In an innovative thesis project that melds technology with historical preservation, Jackelyn Cordova Romano, a graduating public history student at UA Little Rock, has brought President Bill Clinton's legacy to life through the creation of immersive virtual 3D artifacts.
The new project will explore a relatively recent topic in the humanities and arts that commands growing attention – “atmosphere.” “Somaesthetics of Atmosphere,” will investigate atmosphere as a transactional, transformational connecting force that works both outside and inside the individual’s body.
The Truhlsen-Marmor Museum of the Eye® today announced the opening of Hoodwinked: 19th Century Quack Medicine.
The article provides revelatory photos of long-overlooked, ignored or otherwise unknown evidence for extensively documented cases of transcendental communication and other 'supernatural' phenomena.
The article provides revelatory photos of long-overlooked, ignored or otherwise unknown evidence for extensively documented cases of transcendental communication and other 'supernatural' phenomena.
Antioch College announces the revival of the Antioch Writers’ Workshop, a distinguished residential workshop and retreat for writers on its campus in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Originally launched at Antioch in 1986, the workshop moved to various institutions after 2009 and was discontinued in 2019.
When most people in the U.S. think about Asian immigrants coming to the Americas, they often picture immigrants from China coming in the 1800s. The story, though, is much more complicated—and interesting. As Diego Javier Luis, assistant professor of history, describes in his new book The First Asians in the Americas, the full story starts with Spanish galleon ships traveling back and forth from Acapulco in Mexico to Manila in the Philippines in the mid-1500s, trading silver from the Americas for silks and other trade goods from Asia. But it wasn’t only goods. People from Asia, from as far afield as Gujarat in India to the Philippines, including some from China and Japan, came to colonial Mexico, many of them enslaved, some free. They were the first Asians in the Americas, and slowly fanned out across the continents. He delved deep into archives held in Spain, Mexico, the Philippines, and the U.S. to find the stories of those individuals and groups. He had learned Mandarin whil
The Vocal Chords: Jazz Ensemble and A Capella Group at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School Bridge Medicine and Music, Offering Comfort and Connection
After several years in storage for safekeeping, the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Eloise Kruger Collection of Miniature Furnishings and Decorative Arts is going back on view in a new gallery.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Colson Whitehead will receive the 2025 St. Louis Literary Award from Saint Louis University. Whitehead will come to St. Louis next spring to accept the award.
Pronouns like ”he” and “she” are at the center of much debate as society tries to shift to using more gender-inclusive pronouns like ‘they’—especially when referring to those with identities that do not fit with traditional pronouns.
Figshare is pleased to announce that BIMM University has chosen Figshare to support the sharing, showcasing and management of its non-traditional research outputs (NTROs).
Paul Barnes, the Marguerite Scribante Professor of Piano in the Glenn Korff School of Music, will be performing a special program of composer Philip Glass’s works inside “Greenpoint,” a sculpture by Richard Serra on the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s City Campus at noon, May 1. The performance is free and open to the public.
Jazz composer and University of Miami Frost School of Music professor Etienne Charles's latest music and multimedia project, "Earth Tones," portrays the dire effects of climate change, from tropical islands to the Louisiana Bayou, and some inspiring solutions.
Digital Science has launched its Open Principles, a new initiative that commits its research information solutions to open science now and into the future.
Summary: Luiza Osorio G. Silva, who grew up entranced by mummy movies, is the Department of Art History’s first Egyptologist. Her classes cover everything from tomb artwork to royal power, and she’s involved with three archaeological excavations in the Middle East. She haunts ancient Egyptian graveyards, co-hosts a Portuguese podcast called “Three Egyptologists Walk Into a Bar” and keeps a miniature mummy in her office.
Chulalongkorn University isn’t a Buddhist university but it does serve as a resource center for Buddhist Studies research and education. There are now various programs that offer courses in Buddhist Studies, as well as the Center for Buddhist Studies of the Institute of Thai Studies and its worldwide network of academics who are active in the exchange and collaboration in research, along with the International Tipitaka Hall and the CU Dhamma Center which serves as a venue for study and research along with organizing activities related to Buddhism.
Digital Science is further broadening its range of AI innovations in a major new release from AI-based academic language service Writefull, which is to be used in the collaborative authoring tool Overleaf.
A Florida State University historian has been appointed to serve as a distinguished visiting professor in the humanities division at the United States Air Force Academy.
An eye movement study led by a New York Institute of Technology psychology researcher suggests that techniques used in a Baroque-era painting could help today’s marketers catch the attention of modern consumers.
Congratulations to Shigeko Honda, who was director of the #UWF Japan Center and Japan House for 26 years, for being awarded the prestigious Order of the Rising Sun, Silver Rays at the 20th-anniversary celebration of the Japan House.
Tufts Professor Kwasi Ampene assisted West Africa's Asante kingdom restore antiquities looted by the British in the 19th century.
A recent study published in Scientific Reports suggests that English-language song lyrics have undergone significant changes in complexity and repetition over the past 40 years.
The American College of Gastroenterology Free Virtual Event on March 28, 2024, at 8:00 pm ET, “Tune It Up: A Concert To Raise Colorectal Cancer Awareness”
Jolie González Masmela, an international conducting student recently achieved three important milestones. As a woman pursuing a career in a field that has traditionally been dominated by males, she’s hoping those achievements can open paths for future generations.
More than a dozen artists are working to repair a collection of beloved items, including a cracked early 20th century teapot, as part of the Transformative Repair project led by UniSA's Dr Guy Keulemans and Dr Trent Jansen of UNSW.
In preparation for this year’s eclipse on April 8, an Ohio State expert dug deep into folklore indexes to see what common motifs have been used to explain the phenomenon. A common one: the sun being consumed by a creature.
By analysing digital copies of an incredibly rare and obscure 17th century Italian religious text, a University of Bristol academic has revealed that a long-lost document previously thought to have been written by William Shakespeare’s father belongs in fact to his relatively unknown sister Joan.
Today, we’re excited to share that we’ve been selected to receive a $2million gift as an awardee of the Yield Giving Open Call. Our project was selected from among 6,353 applications from all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico after a process of multiple levels of review, feedback, and diligence involving peer applicants and an external Evaluation Panel recruited for experience relevant to this cause. Health People is very grateful and excited to use these funds to develop our Community Training Institute, enabling us to effectively train other community groups across the city to implement peer-based chronic disease self-care and preventive education.
Mock ‘Ninja knife throwing’, ‘Gibberish’, or the fast and furious ‘Zap’ – they’re all favourite theatre games designed to break ice and boost confidence. But add speech therapy to theatre sports and you get a brand-new experience that’s hoping to deliver positive changes for people with a stutter.
Chula joins hands with the Thai Health Promotion Foundation (ThaiHealth) to design “Walkable City” using the GoodWalk Score as the criteria for selecting the pilot area to be developed as Walkable City in Bangkok as well as many cities around the country.
Political theorist Achille Mbembe named 2024 Holberg Prize Laureate. The Cameroonian scholar Achille Mbembe is Research Professor of History and Politics at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WiSER), at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
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The Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University and The MetroHealth System are featured in a groundbreaking documentary film, American Delivery, highlighting the critical work by nurses to address the nation’s maternal mortality crisis.
São Paulo State University (UNESP) has chosen Dimensions and Altmetric from Digital Science’s flagship products to advance its world-class research program.
Figshare, a leading provider of institutional repository infrastructure that supports open research, is pleased to announce that Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology (IADT) is launching a new Figshare-powered institutional repository to share its creative research outputs.
WHAT: Tomorrow, 16 states and one territory will head to the polls in the biggest primary election of this year’s election cycle. As we watch the results come in, American University experts are available to comment on a broad range of issues related to the 2024 presidential elections. WHEN: March 4, 2024 – ongoing WHERE: In studio, email, phone, or virtual WHO: Experts available for comments include David Barker, director of the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies, is an expert on a broad range of topics, including American political parties, campaigns and elections, representation, culture and polarization, ideology and attitudes, information and communication, political institutions, and a wide variety of public policy issues.
KINGSTON, R.I. – Feb. 26, 2024 – In the 1980s, as a poetry student in Italy, Peter Covino was introduced to the work of acclaimed Italian poet Dario Bellezza. It’s a moment he still remembers.“It was a big deal to learn at that time that there was this really wild, irreverent writer exploring ideas that I didn’t realize would speak to me so directly,” says Covino, associate professor of English at the University of Rhode Island.
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