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MD Anderson Research Highlights for January 9, 2025

University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center’s Research Highlights showcases the latest breakthroughs in cancer care, research and prevention. These advances are made possible through seamless collaboration between MD Anderson’s world-leading clinicians and scientists, bringing discoveries from the lab to the clinic and back.

Is there really a mid-career crisis? Job satisfaction follows a U-shaped curve only among highly skilled workers, according to new study

University of Surrey
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Contrary to the long-held belief that the mid-career crisis plagues everyone, new research suggests that job satisfaction follows a U-shaped trajectory only for managerial and professional workers. This provocative finding challenges societal perceptions surrounding midlife and calls for a revaluation of workplace support for individuals in their 40s and 50s.

Journal: Socio-Economic Review

Rise in post-birth blood pressure in Asian, Black, and Hispanic women linked to microaggressions

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

A study of more than 400 Asian, Black and Hispanic women who had recently given birth found that racism through microaggressions may be linked to higher blood pressure during the period after their baby was born.

Journal: Hypertension
Funder: NIH/National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities

A Sustainable Development Goal for space?

University of Plymouth
Peer-Reviewed Publication

An international team of scientists has called for the creation of an 18^th addition to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, which would aim to mitigate against the accumulation of space junk in Earth’s orbit. They believe a new SDG18 could draw direct inspiration from one of the existing goals – SDG14: Life Below Water – with lessons learned in marine debris management being used to prevent another planetary crisis before it is too late.

Journal: One Earth
Funder: National Geographic Society

A third of UK public ‘tolerant’ of petty corruption

Anglia Ruskin University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study reveals that up to a third of the British public felt petty corruption would have been acceptable in order to get early access to jabs during the UK’s Covid-19 vaccination rollout.

Journal: Social Science & Medicine

Bridging oceans: A US-Japan approach to flood risk and climate resilience

Florida Atlantic University
Grant and Award Announcement

A joint U.S.-Japan project funded by the NSF and JST, involving researchers from FAU, Lehigh University, and Japanese institutions like Kyoto University, aims to develop a human-centered flood risk management framework. Supported by a $1 million grant, the three-year project focuses on integrating natural conditions, public perceptions, policies, and the impacts of flooding on vulnerable groups such as low-income, minority, disabled, and elderly populations.

Funder: U.S. National Science Foundation, Japan Science and Technology Agency

Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Dr. Helen Fisher, and Dr. Judith Allen donate historic archives to the Kinsey Institute

Kinsey Institute
Business Announcement

The Kinsey Institute at Indiana University has acquired remarkable archives from three pioneering figures in the study of human sexuality, relationships, and wellbeing: the legendary sex therapist Dr. Ruth Westheimer, renowned anthropologist Dr. Helen Fisher, and respected feminist historian Dr. Judith Allen. Together, these collections exemplify the diverse and multidisciplinary nature of the Kinsey Institute’s extensive archival collection, which spans 2,000 years of history and includes some of the world’s most significant records relating to sexuality.