Emi Moriuchi and Jessica Hardin will travel to Japan and New Zealand, respectively, in spring 2022 Emi Moriuchi, left, from Saunders College of Business and Jessica Hardin from the College of Liberal Arts have received Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program awards to travel abroad and conduct research at partner universities.
Two RIT faculty members from Saunders College of Business and the College of Liberal Arts have received Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program awards to travel abroad and conduct research at partner universities. The international exchange program will send Emi Moriuchi and Jessica Hardin to Japan and New Zealand, respectively.
Since its establishment in 1946, the Fulbright Program has enabled more than 390,000 students, scholars, artists, teachers, and professionals of all backgrounds to study, teach, conduct research, and exchange ideas globally. Funded through an annual appropriation made by the U.S. Congress to the U.S. Department of State, the program operates in more
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Jason Payne is trying to get a memorial put up on Raoul Island for the slaves who died there in 1863.
More than 100 men, women and children died as slaves on one of New Zealand’s most distant islands, yet no trace of their existence remains. One man is trying to change that. Jason Payne had been digging into his family’s past and its ties to far-flung Raoul Island – located about 1100km north north-east of New Zealand – when he came across newspaper clippings that left him “absolutely shocked”. He found that in 1863 Peruvian slavers landed on the shores of the island and unloaded scores of men, women and children they had abducted from across islands in the Pacific; mainly Easter Island, but also Niue, Samoa and Tokelau.
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Checkpoint under the Official Information Act showed the rate of anti-depressants prescribed to Māori, and Pasifika was up to 34 times less than other ethnicities.
That was despite Māori and Pasifika having higher rates of mental health difficulties.
The data from the Ministry of Health looked at the number of anti-depressants prescribed from 2017-2020.
On average other ethnicities were given antidepressants at eight times the rate of Māori, 34 times the rate of Pasifika and 16 times the rate of Asians.
That was despite research which showed one in three Māori, and one in four Pacific people experienced mental illness compared to one in five for the total population according to the latest mental health report from 2018.
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If you search google for the phrase climate change counselling , one of first results is a website for a Christchurch practice called Lucid Psychotherapy, which offers ecotherapy services.
Ecotherapy - according to Lucid - is an approach within counselling, psychotherapy, and psychology that recognises the importance of our environment. Ultimately ecotherapy understands that personal and environmental health are interdependent, and cannot ultimately be separated, the website says.
Psychotherapist Michael Apathy works at Lucid Psychotherapy and has been using ecotherapy to help others for about eight or nine years.
Demand is on the rise, he says - although it s an odd one .