Daniel P. Huttenlocher, inaugural dean of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, has been focused on bridging gaps between disciplines since he first became interested in the nascent field of artificial intelligence as a teenager. Years later, he is still bringing different perspectives together to answer hard questions about AI, higher education, and ethics.
Health-care professionals say Community Health Centers have stepped in to meet the needs of residents during the pandemic, as the state s rural areas continue to lose hospitals. The centers have helped .
At World Relief offices just north of Sacramento, junior Cristina Lopez of the University of California, Davis, is training to lead presentations to help newly arrived refugees settle in from opening a bank account to accessing health care. A classmate is developing communications to help a community organization build awareness about refugee experiences. A third student is researching resources to help individual refugees who’ve sought support at another nonprofit.
The Omicron-fuelled wave of COVID-19 infections has led wealthy countries to intensify their recruitment of nurses from poorer parts of the world, worsening dire staffing shortages in overstretched workforces there, the International Council of Nurses said.