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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 12-Jul-2025 18:11 ET (12-Jul-2025 22:11 GMT/UTC)

UTA-backed research tackles health challenges across ages

University of Texas at Arlington
Grant and Award Announcement

Raj Nooyi Endowed Research Award Fund supports studies on improving care for children with complex needs and advancing healthy aging research

Distressing levels of workplace violence in Ontario schools

University of Ottawa
Reports and Proceedings

• Incidence of students punching, biting, kicking, and throwing things at their teachers and educational assistants has increased exponentially says uOttawa study; Overcrowded classrooms, underfunding, dwindling professional health and social services create the perfect storm for increased workplace violence; Nearly half of respondents also experienced parent-initiated harassment; Women, 2SLGBTQIA+, disabled workers and racial minorities experience elevated levels of harassment and/or violence.

Funder: Social Sciences and Humanities and Research Council of Canada

Lebanon crisis driving parents to seek unregulated “shadow” education, study shows

University of Exeter
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Political and social crisis in Lebanon has forced parents to seek unregulated “shadow” education for their children, a new study shows.

Journal: International Studies in Sociology of Education

Study: Wording matters in parental support for adolescent medical services

Emory University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A newly published study by researchers from Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health and Vanderbilt University Medical Center suggests recent parental rights legislation might not align with parents’ actual opinion.

Journal: JAMA Network Open

Listening to an avatar makes you more likely to gamble

PLOS
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Expecting feedback from an avatar compared to a real human facilitates risk-taking behavior in a gambling task, and a brain region called the amygdala is central to this facilitation, according to a study published April 22^nd in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by Toshiko Tanaka and Masahiko Haruno from the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan.

Journal: PLOS Biology

Kosair for Kids and UofL announce expansion of facility for children recovering from spinal cord injury

University of Louisville
Grant and Award Announcement

The University of Louisville and Kosair for Kids will dramatically expand capacity and improve services provided through the Kosair for Kids Center for Pediatric NeuroRecovery. Supported by a $1 million grant from Kosair for Kids, $2 million in federal HRSA funding and a bequest, this project will renovate the fourth floor of UofL Health - Frazier Rehab Institute, creating a 12,500-square-foot, state-of-the-art space that consolidates all therapy, research and clinical services for the center.

Integrating these functions will enhance research collaboration, improve patient care and increase treatment capacity by 50%, allowing up to 24 children per day to receive life-changing therapies.

Funder: Health Resources and Services Administration, Kosair Charities

Researchers find temporary anxiety impacts learning

University of Rochester Medical Center
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers in the Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience at the University of Rochester found that a brief episode of anxiety may have a bigger influence on a person’s ability to learn what is safe and what is not. A new study used a virtual reality game that involved picking flowers with bees in some of the blossoms that would 'sting' the participant, simulated by a mild electrical stimulation on the hand. Researchers discovered that temporary feelings of anxiety had the biggest impact on whether participants could learn to distinguish between the safe and dangerous areas, where the bees were and were not, not a person’s general tendency to feel anxious.

Journal: npj Science of Learning