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Experts issue new ethical standards for body donation programs

Wiley
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new report in the journal Anatomical Sciences Education outlines best practices and standards for human body donation programs across the United States, which accept whole body donations after death for research and education.

Journal: Anatomical Sciences Education

How loss of urban trees affects education outcomes

University of Utah
Peer-Reviewed Publication

University of Utah economists looked at test scores and school attendance for Chicago-area kids before and after a bug infestation wiped out the city's ash trees. Education outcomes for low-income students went down, highlighting how the impacts of ecosystem degradation are disproportionately felt by disadvantaged communities.

Journal: Global Environmental Change

Worsening heat waves pose unique risks to people living with neurodegenerative disease

University of California - Los Angeles Health Sciences
Peer-Reviewed Publication

As 2024 is set to end as Earth’s hottest year on record – breaking the previous record set in 2023– a UCLA Health researcher says people living with neurodegenerative diseases will be uniquely vulnerable to worsening heat waves because of a higher risk of heat-related complications.

Journal: JAMA Neurology

New book ties together an improbably effective career in probability

University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science
Book Announcement

University of Virginia professor Roman Krzysztofowicz was drawn to the emerging field of systems engineering early in his career. Now known for pioneering work in modeling high-stakes decision making, he has authored a textbook synthesizing his research across the years.

Parents’ childhood predicts future financial support for children’s education

Penn State
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Parents who endured difficult childhoods provided less financial support to their children’s education such as college tuition compared to parents who experienced few or no disadvantages, according to a new study from a researcher from Penn State. Regardless of current socioeconomic status, the parents who had more disadvantages in their childhoods gave their children $2,200 less, on average.

Journal: Journal of Marriage and Family
Funder: NIH/National Institute on Aging

Young English speakers are most comfortable with digital health

University of California - San Francisco
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Digital health tools, such as patient portals, treatment apps and online appointment schedulers, are increasingly common. But not everyone is equally at home using them.

Journal: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
Funder: NIH/Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

Fraunhofer IAF expands technology capabilities for chiplet innovations within the APECS pilot line

Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics
Grant and Award Announcement

Fraunhofer IAF is expanding its technological capabilities in the field of III-V compound semiconductors, making a valuable contribution to the development of the APECS pilot line within the framework of the EU Chips Act. The Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Economic Affairs, Labour and Tourism is contributing 4.35 million euros to the funding. On 16 December 2024, State Secretary for Economic Affairs Dr. Patrick Rapp symbolically handed over a cheque for the funding amount to the institute’s directors. APECS will make it possible to further expand the research and development infrastructure across Europe over the next 4.5 years. The substantial total funding amounts to 730 million euros, provided by Chips Joint Undertaking, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and other funding.

Funder: Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Economic Affairs, Labor and Tourism, German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Chips Joint Undertaking