One thing known to improve mental health among students is increased school connectedness—when students feel that the adults and peers in their school care about them as individuals in addition to their learning ability. Schools are working to improve their connectedness by adding social workers to their staff to help address the mental health concerns of students. However, according to new research from The University of Texas at Arlington and Virginia Commonwealth University, many individual schools and districts are struggling with the best way to deploy these valuable resources so that students can benefit from their care.

Asking children “What does a scientist look like?” now results in more illustrations of women and people of color than decades ago. But do generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools also depict the diversity among scientists? Researchers reporting in the Journal of Chemical Education prompted AI image generators for portraits of chemists. They found that none of the collections accurately represents the gender, racial or disability diversity among real chemists today.

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) today announced that Professor Christian Wolfrum, an eminent biomedical scientist, will be joining the University as the next Deputy President and Provost. 

He succeeds Professor Ling San, who will step down from his role as Deputy President and Provost on 30 June 2025. Prof Wolfrum will be appointed Deputy President and Provost-Designate from 2 December 2024 and will take office as NTU Deputy President and Provost on 1 July 2025.

Prof Wolfrum joins NTU from ETH Zurich, the best university in continental Europe, where he is currently Vice President of Research. He is also a member of ETH Zurich’s Executive Board.