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Jared M. Kutzin, DNP, MS, MPH, RN, named President of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare

The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Meeting Announcement

First Mount Sinai faculty member to hold this prestigious position

Beyond ChatGPT: WVU researchers to study use and ethics of artificial intelligence across disciplines

West Virginia University
Grant and Award Announcement

With support from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, two West Virginia University researchers have designed an interdisciplinary, cross-institutional program to engage liberal arts faculty in discussions on the social, ethical and technical aspects of artificial intelligence and its role in classrooms.

Funder: National Endowment for the Humanities

Life satisfaction measurement tool provides robust information across nations, genders, ages, languages

PLOS
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Data on almost 57,000 people from 65 countries suggests that the Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS)—a widely used research tool—generally holds up well when applied across diverse groups of people, underscoring its potential value in research and policymaking. Viren Swami of Anglia Ruskin University, U.K., and colleagues present these findings in the open-access journal PLOS One on January 22, 2025.

Journal: PLOS One

Adult children of divorced parents at higher risk of stroke

University of Toronto
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A recent study by researchers from the University of Toronto, Tyndale University and the University of Texas at Arlington found that older adults are at greater risk of having a stroke if they experienced their parents divorcing during childhood.

Journal: PLOS One

2024 ACM Fellows honored for transformative contributions to computing

Association for Computing Machinery
Grant and Award Announcement

ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, has named 55 Fellows for transformative contributions to computing science and technology.

Could brain aging be mom’s fault? The X chromosome factor

University of California - San Francisco
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Women are born with two X chromosomes and inherit one from each parent. But in every cell of their body, just one X chromosome is needed – so the other is randomly inactivated. Some cells use only a maternal X chromosome; others rely only on the paternal X.

Journal: Nature
Funder: NIH/National Institute on Aging, NIH/National Institute on Aging, American Federation for Aging Research, Bakar Aging Research Institute, Simons Foundation, Simons Foundation

Black kids and families are forced to overcome marked disparities in early care and education settings

Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Early care and education (ECE) programs were created to support the social, emotional and academic development of young children before they enter kindergarten. Yet, there are marked disparities and inequities in how Black children and their families are perceived and treated in ECE, according to a review article published in a special issue on Racism in the Early Years in Early Childhood Research Quarterly journal from Courtney Zulauf-McCurdy, PhD (Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago), Olivia R. Nazaire (Loyola University Chicago), Tunette Powell, PhD (Arizona State University) and Iheoma Iruka, PhD (University of North Carolina).

Journal: Early Childhood Research Quarterly