A new analysis suggests that online searches could help correct people’s predisposed belief in misinformation, but that searching may still promote negative feelings about a targeted minority group, despite correction of specific information about the group. Tetsuro Kobayashi of City University of Hong Kong and colleagues present these findings in the open-access journal PLOS ONE on September 22, 2021.

Children’s National Hospital today announced a $6.7 million award from the National Institute of Health (NIH) for the new Children’s National Research & Innovation Campus (RIC). The funds will help transform a historic building on the former site of Walter Reed Army Medical Center into new research labs. The NIH construction grant marks the first secured grant funding for Phase II of the campus project, signaling continued momentum for the first-of-its-kind pediatric research and innovation hub.

The University of Kansas has secured a $1.25 million grant from the Office of Special Education Programs to found Project INSTRUCT, which will pair future special education teachers and future speech language pathologists in their training. The two professions both serve students with disabilities, but rarely work together. The project will help the future professionals learn, research and work in schools together, to enable them to be better rounded and better include students with disabilities in general education classrooms.

Researchers from North Carolina State University found natural spaces like woods or gardens were relatively rare in a small sample of elementary and middle schools in a district in North Carolina.