3-Feb-2025 How rice can become more resilient University of Würzburg Rice is the basis of life for many people. An international research team involving researchers from Würzburg wants to make the plant, which originates from Asia, more resilient to heat and drought.
3-Feb-2025 Algorithms, avocados, and adventures Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz The step abroad was a deliberate adventure for Professor Sebastian Erdweg. When planning his research sabbatical, the computer scientist of Mainz University envisioned not just an academic collaboration, but also family life in an unfamiliar country. As a visiting professor, he eventually went to the Universidad de Chile – bringing home not only formative experiences but also a major third-party funded project. Funder Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo
3-Feb-2025 From science to social impact: A student’s legacy to help Okinawan children Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) Graduate University Sachie Yukawa has been running a Christmas donation initiative for underprivileged children in Okinawa for 4 years. The PhD student, who joined OIST’s former Immune Signal Unit, began her community welfare involvement when she participated in a university outreach initiative, part of the first-year PhD curriculum at OIST.
3-Feb-2025 Employee-led giving at ORNL nets over $1.1M for area nonprofits, disaster relief in 2024 DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory ORNL staff and its managing contractor, UT-Battelle, donated $1,104,866 in the 2024 ORNL Gives campaign, an annual employee-led effort to address needs throughout East Tennessee.
31-Jan-2025 UT Health San Antonio School of Dentistry ranked 30th worldwide, No. 1 in Texas University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio The School of Dentistry of The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio now is ranked 30th in the world for dentistry and oral sciences, and No. 1 in Texas, according to the Academy Ranking of World Universities, known also as the ShanghaiRanking.
31-Jan-2025 National retailers support American Heart Month through Life is Why™ campaigns American Heart Association Shoppers can help save lives and support the mission of the American Heart Association beginning in February, American Heart Month
31-Jan-2025 IRD, DNDi and Institut Pasteur de Guinée welcome the WHO validation for the elimination of sleeping sickness in Guinea Institut Pasteur Guinea celebrates today the elimination of sleeping sickness (also known as human African trypanosomiasis or HAT) as a public health problem.
30-Jan-2025 How GLP-1 medications are transforming diabetes and weight loss treatment Texas A&M University Andrew Tenpas, PharmD, RPh, clinical assistant professor at the Texas A&M University Irma Lerma Rangel College of Pharmacy, explains the medications, their benefits and a few drawbacks.
