/PRNewswire/ Innovative in-home palliative care for rural underserved populations and texting to find the Tipping Point are two of twelve winners announced.
Posted Betty Firth
Betty Firth
I have been musing about human beings and their seeming inability to get along, not exactly a new topic for me. However, some of what I have read, thought about, and even passed on here in the past, came back through my thought tunnels with a different angle, which made me laugh and moan at the same time.
This thread goes back a long ways: My freshman year in college I had signed up for a philosophy class, Great Philosophical Systems, on the poor advice of my so-called advisor, who had just met me and knew nothing of my inclinations or abilities. It was supposedly a 100 level course, but the reason the advisor suggested it, and I agreed, was that I wanted four hours and most were only three. It also fulfilled the math requirement for graduation; the University of Colorado apparently recognized that math and philosophy both use logic, so that was good enough for them.
Social Justice as Part of the Remedy for What Ails Us New center in Sanford Institute for Empathy and Compassion focuses on issues in health care June 03, 2021 | Scott LaFee; Mario Aguilera
News release
Eliminating racial inequity demands empathy and compassion, but also social justice.
The newest center within the T. Denny Sanford Institute for Empathy and Compassion at UC San Diego will have that focus, created to identify, understand and resolve social justice issues in health care that primarily affect racial and ethnic minorities, women, LGBTQ and under-privileged communities.
“Across this country and throughout society, we face extraordinary challenges regarding racial injustice, especially those impacting marginalized members of our communities,” said Gentry Patrick, PhD, a professor of neurobiology in the Division of Biological Sciences and the newly named director of the Center for Empathy and Social Justice in Human Health within the Sanford In
What s happening around Whanganui
4 Apr, 2021 05:52 AM
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Join Tracy Byatt in the project gallery at Sarjeant on the Quay as she works, and demonstrates the techniques she used to create An Impossible Bouquet. Photo / Sarjeant Gallery
Join Tracy Byatt in the project gallery at Sarjeant on the Quay as she works, and demonstrates the techniques she used to create An Impossible Bouquet. Photo / Sarjeant Gallery
Wanganui Midweek
WHAT GIVES ENERGY AND PURPOSE TO YOUR LIFE?
What: Alison Lewin shares her experience of working in rural Zimbabwe and reflects on how her world view has changed and what she has learned about resilience.