The survey, part of a larger survey conducted by the Council of Academic Family Medicine Educational Research Alliance (CERA), asked family medicine residency directors about their program’s readiness to teach and assess self-directed learning skills.

In a new commentary published in Annals of Internal Medicine, Robert B. Shpiner, MD, a clinical professor of pulmonary and critical care at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, argues that the growing use of artificial intelligence chatbots for health information reflects both health system strain and a broader shift in how patients seek information.

The widespread concern about the effect of cellphones on reading comprehension in elementary school children has led to surprisingly little experimental research. New research by UCLA psychologists found a statistically significant relationship between owning a cellphone and lower reading scores — children who owned cellphones had poorer reading comprehension than those who did not. In fact, simply owning a phone correlated with worse reading comprehension, whether or not the phone was brought to school. 

An innovative new program brings together two of the top disciplines at The University of Texas at Austin to help engineers become business leaders. 

The new five-year program, a collaboration between the Cockrell School of Engineering and the McCombs School of Business, blends technical innovation and strategic business thinking. Students will earn both a Bachelor of Science in engineering and a Master of Science in business.

Burying underwear in soil isn’t a typical science lesson. But for students on Hornby Island, it’s one way they can learn how seaweed supports local ecosystems.

The activity and others like it are part of Seaweed School, a unique partnership between UBC and Hornby Island that’s training the next generation of coastal scientists while helping local students stay in their home community for an extra year of school.

We sat down with Dr. Bridgette Clarkston (BC), school co-creator and an associate professor of teaching in UBC’s Department of Botany, and Seaweed School alumna Ava Zielinski (AZ), to discuss how the school is helping students care for the coast they call home.

AI is increasingly used in scientific research. But how can we be sure the datasets and models that power this research are trustworthy and not compromised? VERITAS, a multidisciplinary project led by a University of Illinois researcher and supported by a National Science Foundation grant, seeks to establish AI assurance as a core function of research infrastructure.

ITHACA, N.Y. – A new computer model from Cornell University researchers is one of the first artificial intelligence tools to advance scientific discovery in agriculture and biogeochemistry and is 50 times more efficient than its predecessors.