Eight UChicago faculty elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences uchicago.edu - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from uchicago.edu Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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April 23, 2021
Professor Anup Malani was among eight members of the University of Chicago faculty elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honorary societies.
Malani is the Law School s Lee and Brena Freeman Professor and a professor at the Pritzker School of Medicine. He conducts research in law and economics, health economics and development economics. His research in law and economics focuses on judicial behavior, methods for measuring the contents and causal impact of laws, and the legal implications of blockchain. His health economics research focuses on control of infectious diseases (including coronaviruses and influenza), the value of medical innovation and health care insurance, conflicts of interest in medicine and placebo effects. In development economics, Malani is involved in multiple projects in India focused on health care financing and the quality of life in slums.
Regardless of a Texas State student s major, it is likely they will have to take at least two life sciences courses before she, he or they can get a degree. However, a quick Google or Twitter search provides many a thread started by students desperate for an easy A in science, something they either fear, hate or just do not want to deal with.
Of course, an easy A is much easier when students are actually interested in the topic. Interest is a key part of the learning process and increases a student s motivation, attention and retention of topics. In this era of distance learning, it has become harder for students to find motivation, with a College Reaction/Axios poll taken last April showing that 77% of students surveyed thought their online classes were worse than in-person classes.
Newly discovered fossils of fish from multiple life stages may ‘rewrite textbooks’
A new study out of the University of Chicago, the Canadian Museum of Nature and the Albany Museum challenges a long-held hypothesis that the larvae of modern lampreys are a holdover from the distant past, resembling the ancestors of all living vertebrates, including ourselves.
The new fossil discoveries indicate that ancient lamprey hatchlings more closely resembled modern adult lampreys, and were completely unlike their modern larvae counterparts. The results were published on March 10 in
“We’ve basically removed lampreys from the position of the ancestral condition of vertebrates,” said first author Tetsuto Miyashita, formerly a Chicago Fellow at the University of Chicago and now a paleontologist at the Canadian Museum of Nature. “So now we need an alternative.”
Vertebrate Origin Theory Now Questionable With Discovery of Fossilized Fish Larvae natureworldnews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from natureworldnews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.