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11-Dec-2024

How job ads shape gender and racial segregation in the UK workforce – new study

Lancaster University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The study, ‘Language in job advertisements and the reproduction of labour force gender and racial segregation’, is published in PNAS Nexus – an official journal of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

The findings provide a labour-market-wide audit of how gender/EDI language in job ads helps shape workforce gender/racial composition, as well as how labour force gender/racial composition influences gender/EDI language in job ads.

Journal: PNAS Nexus

11-Dec-2024

Carnegie Mellon University Africa and Challenger Center collaborate to deliver STEM programs

College of Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
Business Announcement

Carnegie Mellon University Africa, CMU’s College of Engineering location in Kigali, Rwanda, and Challenger Center, will partner to deliver Challenger Center’s Virtual Missions to hundreds of secondary school students on the continent. This project will help grow the population of African students who are motivated to pursue higher education and careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields.

11-Dec-2024

Reduction in teen pregnancy rates could ‘unravel’ as experts warn against ‘complacency’

Taylor & Francis Group
Book Announcement

Despite significant falls in the rate of teenage pregnancies over the past two decades in the UK, academic experts say there are still huge regional differences, and the country’s teenage birth rates remain one of highest among developed nations.

10-Dec-2024

Cardiorespiratory fitness linked to preservation of cognitive abilities in older age

BMJ Group
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Higher cardiorespiratory fitness in older age is linked to the preservation of several core aspects of cognitive ability that are vulnerable to age-related decline, finds research published online in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.

Journal: British Journal of Sports Medicine
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health

10-Dec-2024

ACC Young Scholars Program nurtures the next generation of cardiologists

American College of Cardiology
Grant and Award Announcement

A group of 114 promising high school and undergraduate students have been selected for the 2024 – 2025 ACC Young Scholars Program where they will participate in a year-long education and mentorship program to explore the diverse career paths within the field of cardiology.

10-Dec-2024

US news rates UCSF health a top hospital for maternity care

University of California - San Francisco
Grant and Award Announcement

UCSF Medical Center has received the highest possible rating for maternity care by U.S. News & World Report.

10-Dec-2024

Mothers’ language choices have double the impact in bilingual families, new research shows

Concordia University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New research shows that mothers have twice the impact on language exposure, challenging traditional parenting advice. In a new study, Concordia University researchers found that there wasn’t a single strategy that could be singled out as “best” to raise a child bilingually. But when they looked at parents’ language use individually rather than the family’s overall strategy, they had an unexpected and striking finding: mothers had up to twice the impact on language exposure compared to fathers. They believe these findings will have real-world impact for policymakers, health-care workers and professionals who closely work with and give advice to bilingual families.

Journal: Child Development
Funder: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada