Professor Lam Khee Poh named IWBI Global WELL Educator of the Year 2025
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A group of Rice University students has turned a single semester course project into a peer-reviewed research paper, demonstrating a new way to make high-performance composite materials both stronger and more resistant to catastrophic failure. The study, published in Composites Part B, introduces an architectural approach to improving carbon fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP) composites, materials widely used in aerospace for their strength and light weight but known for their vulnerability to sudden, brittle failure.
Simon Fraser University (SFU) and Thompson Rivers University (TRU) are forging a new partnership to advance innovation, research, graduate studies and workforce development across British Columbia.
This new partnership – bolstered by a memorandum of understanding signed this month – will lead to collaborations in strategic priority areas for B.C., including artificial intelligence (AI), cybersecurity, health, wildfire management and emergency response, and Indigenous language revitalization.
A recent study in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior (JNEB), published by Elsevier, examined the impact of the Healthy Steps to Freedom (HSF-10) program on nutrition, body image, and health-related behaviors among 607 women undergoing treatment for substance use. Findings demonstrated that participation in the 10-week intervention program was associated with significant improvements in nutrition behaviors, physical activity, and intuitive eating, alongside reductions in body dissatisfaction, thin-ideal internalization, and disordered eating behaviors.
A meta-analysis by Associate Professor Wang Zhe and PhD candidate Cheng Chao (East China Normal University) in Educational Psychology Review finds that seductive details have a small but significant negative effect on learning outcomes. Using three-level meta-analysis and MASEM, the study provides the first cross‑study evidence that extraneous cognitive load mediates this effect.
Professor Cui Yunhuo and Professor Lei Hao from the Institute of Curriculum and Instruction at East China Normal University have been named to Elsevier's 2025 "Highly Cited Chinese Researchers" list in Education. Prof. Cui receives the honor for the fourth consecutive year, and Prof. Lei for the third, highlighting their sustained impact in the field.
Professor Ke Zheng of East China Normal University launches the "Education Powerhouse Research Series," addressing China's transition from a "large" to a "strong" education system. Grounded in real-world challenges, the series seeks to bridge the gap between theory and practice while contributing Chinese perspectives to global education governance.