Education
NTU Singapore study finds that consumers associate higher-pitched commercials with healthier food products
Nanyang Technological UniversityPeer-Reviewed Publication
A team of researchers from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) studying how the acoustic and visual composition of advertisements impact perceptions, has found that consumers associate a higher frequency “sonic logo” with healthier food products. Sonic logos, also termed sogos, are short melodies created to support the marketing of a specific brand. The study also linked more stimulating visuals in commercials with consumer perceptions that the food product it was advertising was healthier.
- Journal
- Food Quality and Preference
UNC-Chapel Hill receives $65M from NIH for antiviral drug development center
University of North Carolina at Chapel HillGrant and Award Announcement
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health awarded the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health a $65 million grant establishing an Antiviral Drug Discovery Center to develop oral antivirals that can combat pandemic-level viruses like COVID-19. The center builds upon and is tightly affiliated with UNC’s Rapidly Emerging Antiviral Drug Development Initiative.
UTIA assistant professor receives GPN’s Forty Under 40 Award
University of Tennessee Institute of AgricultureGrant and Award Announcement
Alicia Rihn, assistant professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture, has received the Forty Under 40 Award by Greenhouse Product News for 2022, an award that recognizes remarkable young talent in the horticulture industry.
Imperial’s Faculty of Engineering is celebrating its research being ranked best in the UK for both computer science and engineering.
Imperial College LondonReports and Proceedings
Imperial’s Faculty of Engineering is celebrating its research being ranked best in the UK for both computer science and engineering.
Learning more about bird diversity: What a museum collection in Romania can tell us
Pensoft PublishersPeer-Reviewed Publication
A research team, headed by Gergely Osváth, revised the ornithological collection in the Zoological Museum of Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, to provide a catalogue of the bird skins preserved there. “Due to its historical background and the presence of rare species, it is considered to be one of the most important ornithological collections in Eastern Europe,” Osváth says. Published in the journal ZooKeys, this is the first time that a revised catalogue including all those specimen data is made public.
- Journal
- ZooKeys
NYC Media Lab & Verizon announce the winners of the $1M museum initiative
NYU Tandon School of EngineeringBusiness Announcement
In partnership with Verizon, the NYC Media Lab at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering today announced the winners of the $1M Museum Initiative—a nationwide open call for museums and cultural institutions to develop and offer new immersive educational content available to all educators on the Verizon Innovative Learning HQ portal.