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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 8-Sep-2025 21:11 ET (9-Sep-2025 01:11 GMT/UTC)

Despite dwindling resources, report of successful arts education models worldwide paints bright picture

New York University
Reports and Proceedings

In India, the Slam Out Loud program connects teachers and artists in classrooms for storytelling, theater, and visual arts that bolster children’s socio-emotional learning. In the United States, Carnegie Hall partners with more than 115 orchestras across the country to teach children to sing and play instruments, culminating in an orchestral performance. Nonprofits like these are providing opportunities across the world in the face of reduced funding and support for arts education in public school systems.

Funder: Porticus Foundation

Chinese Neurosurgical Journal study calls for urgent attention to chronic traumatic encephalopathy research deficit in Africa

Chinese Neurosurgical Journal

Contact sports are becoming increasingly popular in Africa, raising concern about the risk of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). This report highlights the urgent need for awareness, education, and research on CTE across the region. The authors propose a multifaceted approach that includes improving medical infrastructure, increasing funding, addressing sociocultural barriers to brain donation, and educating healthcare professionals. These efforts are essential to prevent serious long-term health consequences and prepare Africa for the growing challenge ahead.

Journal: Chinese Neurosurgical Journal

New partnership explores frontiers of AI in higher education

Texas A&M University
Grant and Award Announcement

Texas A&M Engineering joined leading universities in OpenAI’s NexGenAI consortium to foster tech-driven literacy.

20 million for courageous research at ISTA

Institute of Science and Technology Austria
Business Announcement

The private Swiss NOMIS Foundation is investing €20 million to support research at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) in Klosterneuburg—a partnership that focuses on daring science. Starting in 2026, projects will be funded for five years that break new ground and therefore have the potential to deliver substantial leaps in our knowledge.

Funder: NOMIS Stiftung

HKUMed emphasizes safe lithium use for optimal bipolar disorder management and promotes mental health public education

The University of Hong Kong
Peer-Reviewed Publication

An interdisciplinary research team led by the Department of Psychiatry, School of Clinical Medicine, LKS Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong (HKUMed) has conducted Hong Kong’s first study analysing 16 years of data to confirm the safety of lithium treatment for bipolar disorder. The findings, published in JAMA Network Open, reveal that while patients receiving lithium treatment exhibit a slightly higher rate of thyroid and kidney dysfunction than non-users, the overall incidence remains low.

Journal: JAMA Network Open

Individual merit, not solidarity, prioritized by early childhood education policies

PLOS
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Do we climb the social ladder alone or with help from our communities? Early childhood education (ECE) policies are betting on the former, according to a study published July 2, 2025, in the open-access journal PLOS One by Katarzyna Bobrowicz from the University of Luxembourg and University of Liège in Belgium, and colleagues. A 53-country survey of global ECE policies indicates favoritism of competition over cooperation, individualism over solidarity and talent over luck.

Journal: PLOS One

Top stories sibling study finds early education boosts brain power

Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health
Peer-Reviewed Publication

How much does education actually sharpen the mind? A study published in the Journal of Human Capital(link is external and opens in a new window) may help settle this long-standing debate by comparing adult siblings in Indonesia. Led by Yuan Zhang, assistant professor of Sociomedical Sciences in the Robert N. Butler Columbia Aging Center at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, the research reveals education’s impact on adult cognition—particularly for people from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Journal: Journal of Human Capital
Funder: NIH/National Institute on Aging, NIH/Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

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