22-Nov-2024 NHLBI honors World AIDS Day NIH/National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute When Tom Ortiz was diagnosed with HIV more than 30 years ago, he felt like he was handed a death sentence. “In the early days, if AIDS didn’t kill you a heart attack would,” said Ortiz, a community health worker in Ohio. “It was either AIDS or a cardiovascular event.” As a result, Ortiz got his affairs in order. “When I first acquired the disease, nobody made it very far,” he said. “A year [to live] was a long time.”
22-Nov-2024 Michigan Public Health fellowship program equips parents to shape policies, improve food security University of Michigan School of Public Health The University of Michigan School of Public Health’s Feeding MI Families Community Food Advocacy Fellowship empowers Michigan parents to become advocates for food access and policy change. Developed with support from the Michigan Health Endowment Fund, the fellowship equips participants with the skills and confidence to address food insecurity through local advocacy and community action.
22-Nov-2024 Student training on Polarstern’s transit to the Antarctic Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research This weekend, the research vessel Polarstern is scheduled to depart from her homeport in Bremerhaven. In addition to the crew, 33 scientific expedition participants will be on board – primarily young researchers whose job it will be to familiarise themselves with using echosounders to survey the ocean floor.
22-Nov-2024 Mayo Clinic Q and A: Setting boundaries for your well-being Mayo Clinic DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I'm a people-pleaser by nature and have difficulty saying no or setting limits in my relationships. How can I start to create healthier boundaries in a kind yet firm way?
22-Nov-2024 Launching dreams: UT helps entrepreneurs from ideation to realization University of Tennessee at Knoxville The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is fostering tech-based startups to boost East Tennessee's economy and create high-paying jobs. Entrepreneurs can leverage resources like the I-Corps Mid-South Hub, Spark Innovation Center, and Anderson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. UT supports tech founders with state-of-the-art research capabilities, minimizing risks and attracting investors.
22-Nov-2024 The trail of the master forger: New evidence discovered University of Göttingen A document held in Göttingen University’s Faculty of Humanities has been revealed as an 18th century forgery. The document purports to be from 1266, but mentions a church in Pisa that was not built until later. This discovery is the result of research by Dr Boris Gübele, historian at the University of Göttingen, working with Italian researchers.
22-Nov-2024 Standing guard against network invaders DOE/Idaho National Laboratory Anyone who has flown on a commercial flight, crossed an international border, visited a government building or attended a concert knows you’re not getting inside until you pass the security guards.
21-Nov-2024 GPS technology to analyse seabird movements and expand Spain’s network of marine protected areas University of Barcelona There is growing concern about the conservation of seabirds. Globally, their conservation status is worsening at a much faster rate than for any other group of birds. Today, about 30% of seabirds are threatened and 70% of seabird populations worldwide have disappeared in the last six decades. At sea, bycatches by fishing gear, overfishing, pollution, infrastructure such as wind farms or oil platforms and climate change are threats to the survival of all populations.
21-Nov-2024 Tennis players love, loved the turfgrass science and management program’s free grass courts University of Massachusetts Amherst Think of an iconic moment in tennis—Rafael Nadal’s win over Roger Federer, John McEnroe throwing a fit, Venus and Serena Williams facing off across the net, Martina Navratilova and Billie Jean King winning the doubles title, Pete Sampras’s career—and even those who don’t follow the sport will likely imagine a game played on the iconic grass courts of Wimbledon. Grass courts have a long and storied history in the sport, and are often considered the ultimate surface that brings out the best in an elite player. What most don’t know is that the Turfgrass Science Program, run by UMass Amherst’s Stockbridge School of Agriculture, is revered not only for its research into sports turfs, but for its grass tennis courts—free for all—that have drawn tennis players from all across the U.S. for more than a decade.
21-Nov-2024 New research sets sights on early detection, reversal of common pregnancy complication in Hispanic communities Texas A&M University Mahua Choudhury, PhD, associate professor of pharmaceutical sciences in the Texas A&M Irma Lerma Rangel College of Pharmacy, is leading several projects focused on the early detection and reversal of preeclampsia. Her previous work on a related project earned her a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Grand Challenge in Global Health grant in 2011.
