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5-Feb-2025

UTA president earns national prize for civic leadership

University of Texas at Arlington
Grant and Award Announcement

University of Texas at Arlington President Jennifer Cowley received a national award for civic and community engagement on Wednesday from Campus Compact, a coalition of colleges and universities focused on higher education and strong communities. Campus Compact recognized Cowley with its Richard Guarasci Award for Presidential Leadership, an honor reserved for presidents of four-year institutions who demonstrate deep and sustained commitments to civic and community engagement throughout their careers. The organization selected Cowley for her focus on UTA’s dedication to student accessibility and its role in contributing to the health and strength of local communities.

5-Feb-2025

Fool yourself: People unknowingly cheat on tasks to feel smarter, healthier

Penn State
Peer-Reviewed Publication

When given the opportunity, individuals will cheat to feel smarter or healthier, engaging in diagnostic self-deception to convince themselves that their performance is due to their ability and not the cheating, according to Sara Dommer, a faculty member at Penn State.

Journal: Journal of the Association for Consumer Research

5-Feb-2025

Austin Fintech Event Feb. 19

University of Texas at Austin
Meeting Announcement

Registration is open for the 2025 Business Outlook event in Austin, bringing together financial technology experts for a critical conversation about the industry’s future, Feb. 19 in the AT&T Hotel and Conference Center’s Grand Ballroom on The University of Texas at Austin campus.

5-Feb-2025

Study in India shows kids use different math skills at work vs. school

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A study by MIT economists shows a wide gap between the kinds of math problems kids who work in retail markets do well and the kinds of problems kids in school do well.

Journal: Nature

5-Feb-2025

Neurocognitive disparities in aging: Exploring ethnicity & mental health

Impact Journals LLC
Peer-Reviewed Publication

BUFFALO, NY—February 5, 2025 — A new research paper was published in Aging (Aging-US) on November 27, 2024, in Volume 17, Issue 1, titled “Neurocognitive disparities: investigating ethnicity and mental health in rural aging adults.”

Journal: Aging-US

5-Feb-2025

How AI bias shapes everything from hiring to healthcare

University of Oklahoma
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Naveen Kumar, an associate professor at the University of Oklahoma’s Price College of Business, has co-authored a study emphasizing the urgent need to address bias by developing and deploying ethical, explainable AI in the wake of new international LLM models from DeepSeek and Alibaba.

Journal: Information & Management

5-Feb-2025

Air pollution worsened COVID-19 mortality, especially in vulnerable communities

University of Connecticut

In the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, statistics emerged showing significant discrepancies in mortality by county.

Shinsuke Tanaka, assistant professor and director of graduate studies in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, wanted to use his expertise in environmental and health economics to help understand what was at the root of this puzzle. Tanaka published a paper in the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management showing that counties with more days of downwind pollution from power plants had higher COVID-19 mortality rates. This impact was more pronounced in under-resourced communities.

Journal: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management