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IMAGE: Many universities are guided by the motivation that diversity enhances student learning, a rationale supported by the U.S. Supreme Court. This approach, however, is a view preferred by white and. view more
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PRINCETON, N.J. Increasing diversity remains a key priority at universities, especially in the wake of mass demonstrations in support of racial equality in 2020 following the death of George Floyd. Many universities are guided by the motivation that diversity enhances student learning, a rationale supported by the U.S. Supreme Court.
This approach, however, is a view preferred by white and not Black Americans, and it also aligns with better relative outcomes for white Americans, according to a paper published by Princeton University researchers in the
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A project to increase the health data literacy of youth has received funding through the University of Illinois Extension Collaboration Grant Program. Rachel M. Magee, assistant professor in the School of Information Sciences at Illinois (iSchool), will lead the project, Health Data Literacy Ambassadors, with iSchool Associate Professors Catherine Blake and Jana Diesner serving as co-investigators. Funded through the Office of the Provost s Investment for Growth Program and University of Illinois Extension, the grant supports research and partnerships that address critical issues in five key areas: food, economy, environment, community, and health.
In the two-year project, iSchool researchers and Extension staff will build on existing 4-H Ambassadors and Advocate models to create a Health Data Literacy Ambassadors program.
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We ve all heard the adage, If at first you don t succeed, try, try again, but new research from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh finds that it isn t all about repetition. Rather, internal states like engagement can also have an impact on learning.
The collaborative research, published in
Nature Neuroscience, examined how changes in internal states, such as arousal, attention, motivation, and engagement can affect the learning process using brain-computer interface (BCI) technology. Findings suggest that changes in internal states can systematically influence how behavior improves with learning, thus paving the way for more effective methods to teach people skills quickly, and to a higher level of proficiency.
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EVANSTON, Ill., - A new study by Northwestern University researchers finds that although human and non-human primate vocalizations facilitate core cognitive processes in very young human infants, birdsong does not.
Northwestern scientists in the departments of psychology at Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences and communication sciences and disorders at the School of Communication, have new evidence documenting that not all naturally produced vocalizations support cognition in infants.
The new study, Birdsong fails to support object categorization in human infants, will publish in
PLOS ONE at 1 p.m. CST, Thursday, March 11.
Ample evidence documents that infants as young as three- and four-months of age have begun to link the language they hear to the objects that surround them. Listening to their native language boosts their success in forming categories of objects (e.g., dog). Object categorization, the ability to identify commonalities among objects (e.g., Fido,
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IMAGE: The Young Men s League of Guam presented the University of Guam with a $25,000 grant on March 3 to develop an online open-access database for CHamoru language-learning resources. (From left). view more
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Recognizing the need to make instructional resources about the CHamoru language and culture more accessible to the community, Inetnon Lalåhen Guåhan the Young Men s League of Guam presented the University of Guam with a $25,000 grant on March 3 to develop an online open-access database for such resources.
The multi-phased project will include:
collecting, organizing, and digitizing CHamoru language and culture learning resources that have been produced over the last 50 years;