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10-Sep-2025

Young adult intelligence and education are correlated with socioeconomic status in midlife

Educational attainment and intelligence, and to a smaller extent parental education and father’s occupational class, are associated with midlife socioeconomic status, according to a new study published September 10, 2025 in the open-access journal PLOS One by Erik Lykke Mortensen of University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Journal: PLOS One

10-Sep-2025

Equity implications of where long-term fossil fuel plants are located found to differ based on time period studied

Carnegie Mellon University
Reports and Proceedings

In a new study, researchers examined the relative contributions of siting decisions (i.e., where to locate infrastructure projects) and demographic shifts after projects are built to current disparities in exposure to polluting U.S. fossil fuel plants. The study found little evidence that plants were disproportionately located in counties with higher Black populations, on average. But it also found that the share of the Black population grew in the decades after the first fossil fuel plant was built in a county.

Funder: Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation at Carnegie Mellon

10-Sep-2025

AI salespeople aren’t better than humans… yet

University of British Columbia
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study from the UBC Sauder School of Business shows that AI-powered “digital streamers”—virtual salespeople who appear in livestreams to promote products—don’t perform as well as human streamers. In fact, they barely outperform having no streamer at all.

Journal: Information Systems Research

10-Sep-2025

How gratitude can offset the effects of financial stress

De Gruyter
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Experiencing higher levels of gratitude could lead to lower financial stress, new research published in De Gruyter Brill’s Open Psychology suggests.

Journal: Open Psychology

9-Sep-2025

Studies find nonprofits' use of flexible labor negatively affects operational outcomes, lacks long-term financial benefit, study finds

University of Kansas
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Hala Altamimi of the University of Kansas has conducted several studies examining how private practices like focusing on efficiency by expecting organizations to do more with less has impacted the world of nonprofits. At arts and culture nonprofits, study results showed when the groups used flexible labor like consultants, contractors or temporary employees, it leads to negative outcomes in their attendance as well as short-term financial gain, but not long-term financial improvement.

Journal: Nonprofit Management and Leadership

9-Sep-2025

NIH funds first-of-its-kind center to study resilience and aging

University of Maryland
Grant and Award Announcement

COLLEGE PARK, Md. – America’s population is the oldest it has ever been. And though older people are more independent than ever, they face a huge care gap, one that challenges families, communities and healthcare systems.

Enter the Center for Seniors Uniting Nationwide to Support Health, INtegrated care, and Economics, known as the Center for SUNSHINE, an interdisciplinary collaboration funded by a $901,000 grant from the National Institute on Aging (NIA) for the first two years to establish the center, with the potential for up to six years of support.

Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health

8-Sep-2025

Membrane bioreactors: a comprehensive review of techno-economic and environmental impact

Higher Education Press

Wondering about the true cost and impact of using advanced membrane bioreactors for wastewater treatment? A new study in Engineering takes a deep dive into the economics, environmental footprint, and overall sustainability of these high-tech systems. The findings might surprise you!

Journal: Engineering