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Newswise: How Ghost Stories Came to Haunt Halloween, Expert Explains
Released: 8-Oct-2024 4:05 PM EDT
How Ghost Stories Came to Haunt Halloween, Expert Explains
Virginia Tech

Virginia Tech English department instructor Ingrid Johnson, who teaches a course on “Monsters, Madness, and the Macabre,” provides insights into how Halloween and ghost stories became so intertwined, and the influence ghost stories have in pop culture.

Released: 13-Aug-2024 4:05 PM EDT
University of Delaware experts share insights and strategies for navigating the upcoming school year
University of Delaware

The College of Education and Human Development in the University of Delaware has a number of stories and experts for the upcoming school year.

Newswise: Uwf Team Wins First Place at 2024 Southeastern Psychological Association Quiz Bowl
Released: 26-Mar-2024 10:05 AM EDT
Uwf Team Wins First Place at 2024 Southeastern Psychological Association Quiz Bowl
University of West Florida

Congratulations to the UWF undergraduate student team who won the first quiz bowl challenge at the 2024 Southeastern Psychological Association Annual Meeting!

Newswise: Utep Faculty Launch Research Lab to Support Human Performance
Released: 21-Mar-2024 2:05 PM EDT
Utep Faculty Launch Research Lab to Support Human Performance
University of Texas at El Paso

Professors at The University of Texas at El Paso have launched a new industrial engineering lab focused on supporting human performance and behavior in various application areas. Projects include supportive exoskeletons for high-strain occupations and virtual reality that simulates high-stress environments.

Newswise: International Graduate and Postdoctoral Trainees in Biomedicine Are Struggling with Career Confidence, Study Says
Released: 21-Mar-2024 12:05 PM EDT
International Graduate and Postdoctoral Trainees in Biomedicine Are Struggling with Career Confidence, Study Says
University of North Carolina School of Medicine

A new study, led by researchers at the UNC School of Medicine and collaborators from the NIH Broadening Experiences in Scientific Training (NIH BEST) consortium, examined career confidence in graduate and postdoctoral trainees and explored how to better support international trainees across a diverse array of career paths.

Released: 20-Mar-2024 12:05 PM EDT
Uic Urban Forum to Consider Chicago’s Next 50 Years
University of Illinois Chicago

University of Illinois Chicago event examines Chicago’s next 50 years and how to face the most pressing problems in planning, economics, climate and neighborhoods.

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Released: 19-Mar-2024 11:05 AM EDT
Mackenzie Scott’s Yield Giving Announces $2 Million Grant to South Bronx’s Health People to Expand Peer-to-Peer Education to Tackle Most Wide-Spread – and Preventable – Chronic Diseases Afflicting Residents of Poor and Minority Communities
Health People

Today, we’re excited to share that we’ve been selected to receive a $2million gift as an awardee of the Yield Giving Open Call. Our project was selected from among 6,353 applications from all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico after a process of multiple levels of review, feedback, and diligence involving peer applicants and an external Evaluation Panel recruited for experience relevant to this cause. Health People is very grateful and excited to use these funds to develop our Community Training Institute, enabling us to effectively train other community groups across the city to implement peer-based chronic disease self-care and preventive education.

   
Newswise: SLAS Announces $100,000 Graduate Education Fellowship Grant Awarded to Lan Mi of the University of Massachusetts Amherst
Released: 12-Mar-2024 2:00 PM EDT
SLAS Announces $100,000 Graduate Education Fellowship Grant Awarded to Lan Mi of the University of Massachusetts Amherst
SLAS

The Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS) is pleased to announce Lan Mi, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Chemistry from the University of Massachusetts Amherst

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Released: 7-Mar-2024 1:05 PM EST
Experts: All Adrenal Tumors Should Be Evaluated
Cedars-Sinai

As an on-the-go mother of two equally on-the-go preschoolers, Yessenia Paez was accustomed to dealing with common parenting stress. But when 24/7 anxiety, heart palpitations, hand tremors and chronic headaches became the norm for the better part of a year, she knew something more was at play.

Newswise: Slu Associate Professor of Internal Medicine Named Society of Hospital of Medicine’s ‘Unsung Hero’
Released: 7-Mar-2024 11:05 AM EST
Slu Associate Professor of Internal Medicine Named Society of Hospital of Medicine’s ‘Unsung Hero’
Saint Louis University

Farzana Hoque, M.D., associate professor of internal medicine and acting internship co-director at Saint Louis University’s School of Medicine, is the president of SHM’s St. Louis Chapter. The Unsung Hero award is given to a chapter leader who has positively influenced SHM behind the scenes with a positive attitude and a willingness to support other chapter members.

Released: 13-Dec-2023 1:05 PM EST
‘Tis the season to get vaccinated: How to stay healthy through the holidays
Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan

With virus cases rising and the holidays nigh, three expert from University of Michigan Health give their top 12 tips for avoiding or reducing the impact of COVID-19, flu, RSV, pneumonia and whooping cough in adults and kids.

Released: 7-Dec-2023 2:15 PM EST
Looking for unique stories about the winter holidays? Check out the Winter Holidays channel
Newswise

It's the moooost wonderful time...of the year! Are you looking for new story ideas that are focused on the winter holiday season? Perhaps you're working on a story on on managing stress and anxiety? Perhaps you're working on a story on seasonal affective disorder? Or perhaps your editor asked you to write a story on tracking Santa? Look no further. Check out the Winter Holidays channel.

       
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11-Oct-2023 10:05 AM EDT
Study: Struggling Students Who Repeat Third Grade See Improved Achievement
American Educational Research Association (AERA)

Third-grade retention can increase the reading and math scores of struggling students, with positive effects lasting into middle school, according to new research released today.

Released: 11-Oct-2023 9:05 AM EDT
Psychiatrist Available to Comment on Psychological Impact of Israel-Palestine Conflict
New York Institute of Technology, New York Tech

In the wake of recent attacks, Psychiatrist Liat Jarkon, D.O., director of the Center for Behavioral Health at New York Institute of Technology, urges parents to be wary of what children are seeing.

   


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