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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 19-Jun-2025 19:10 ET (19-Jun-2025 23:10 GMT/UTC)

3-Apr-2025

NCCN Foundation celebrates 2025 Young Investigator Award recipients shaping the future of cancer research

National Comprehensive Cancer Network
Grant and Award Announcement

The National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) and the NCCN Foundation announce four recipients for the 2025 NCCN Foundation Young Investigator Awards (YIA).

3-Apr-2025

Common phrases, not fancy words, make you sound more fluent in a foreign language

Waseda University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Fluency in a foreign language is often thought to be about speaking quickly and using advanced vocabulary. However, researchers from Waseda University reveal that speakers who use common, everyday expressions sound more fluent than those who rely on rare, complex words. The study highlights the importance of mastering familiar phrases to improve fluency perception, suggesting that learners should naturally incorporate common formulaic expressions in spontaneous speech.

Journal: Studies in Second Language Acquisition

3-Apr-2025

Goethe University acquires two new DFG research groups

Goethe University Frankfurt
Grant and Award Announcement

Goethe University Frankfurt has been awarded another humanities research unit funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG): The unit, titled “Power and Abuse in the Roman Catholic Church,” will investigate the conditions that facilitate abuse and how they can be prevented. Additionally, the Center for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences “Polycentricity and Plurality of Premodern Christianities” has secured follow-up funding for its study of Christianity from the first to the eighteenth century.

3-Apr-2025

New article offers practical guide to using AI in medical education

Sichuan International Medical Exchange and Promotion Association
Peer-Reviewed Publication

AI-driven learning is reshaping education, pushing educators to integrate tools like ChatGPT and Deepseek effectively. This guide offers practical tips for medical educators to use AI responsibly, addressing challenges like bias, accuracy, and ethics in teaching.

Journal: MedComm – Future Medicine

2-Apr-2025

Study finds one in five US adults use multiple drugs, revealing new patterns in substance use

University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A study from researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus reveals that nearly one in five U.S. adults have used multiple drugs in the past year, showing that substance use is fairly common and more complex than just using one drug at a time.

Journal: American Journal of Public Health

2-Apr-2025

Life work, not homework

University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture
Reports and Proceedings

A new report by experts with the University of Tennessee (UT) Department of Family and Consumer Sciences (FCS) offers suggestions on how Tennessee school systems and educators can enhance the state’s financial education requirement for high school students.First and foremost, the financial education course should be a full credit, rather than the current half credit, according to study leaders.

2-Apr-2025

Callie Robinson wins AFB Young Farmers and Ranchers Collegiate Discussion Meet

University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture
Grant and Award Announcement

Callie Robinson, a junior in agricultural leadership, education and communications at the University of Tennessee Herbert College of Agriculture, has won the American Farm Bureau Young Farmers and Ranchers 2025 Collegiate Discussion Meet — a national competition where participants discuss important and complex agricultural issues.This is the second consecutive year a Herbert College of Agriculture student has achieved this recognition with animal science alumna Ella McLerran receiving the award in 2024 — a testament to the quality of preparation that Herbert students receive.