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4th Dimension Publishing, LLC Launches in Los Angeles, CA
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LOS ANGELES, May 5, 2021 /PRNewswire/ 4
th Dimension Publishing, LLC launched business operations in April of 2021, with the mission of providing published books, e-books, digital downloads and subscription-based content.
Allen Berger, Ph.D. and Kristin Witzenburg, founders of 4th Dimension Publishing, LLC.
Its flagship publication will be Dr. Allen Berger s latest book in his 12 Series, 12 Essential Insights for Emotional Sobriety, releasing June 3, 2021. The book is expected to be a best seller. His previous books have been best sellers and have sold over 400,000 copies, and include
12 Stupid Things That Mess Up Recovery,
Emory and NIH continue public-private partnership advancing Alzheimer’s research
The National Institutes of Health is launching the next version of AMP AD (Accelerating Medicines Partnership Alzheimer’s Disease), a public-private partnership that takes an open science, big data approach to identifying biological targets for therapeutic intervention.
The National Institute on Aging will lead research efforts for AMP AD 2.0 and has pledged to contribute $61.4 million over five years. This includes funding six multi-institutional, cross-disciplinary academic research teams, including the team at Goizueta Alzheimer’s Research Center at Emory University, along with a data coordinating center at Sage Bionetworks.
Emory researchers served as a founding academic team for the first iteration of the AMP AD when the initiative began in 2014. Led by Allan Levey and Nicholas T. Seyfried, Emory investigators will play an integral role in AMP AD 2.0 as it seeks to support new technologies,
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The MIT School of Architecture and Planning (SA+P) has announced the appointment of Sarah Williams, associate professor in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP), as director of the Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism (LCAU). Her new role became effective on Jan. 1.
Williams says she has always felt deeply connected to the center, which was established shortly before she joined the SA+P faculty in 2014. She combines her training in data science, urban design and planning, and landscape architecture to create communication strategies that expose urban policy issues to create civic change. She calls the process Data Action, which is also the title of her recent book published by MIT Press (2020).
Two Holocaust education centers at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton are hosting virtual programs this month and throughout the spring semester.