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$750K grant helps veterans build farming businesses through training from University of Hawaiʻi GoFarm Hawaiʻi, partners
The 3-year training project will provide agricultural and farm business education and support to 600 aspiring veteran farmers as well as help start, maintain or improve 25 veteran-operated farms.
Social Work program strengthens behavioral health workforce
Sahar Ashrafi was in her fourth year of medical school and was working toward becoming a psychiatrist before she and her family were forced to leave Afghanistan in 2019 due to war and conflict in the region. “After that, I had to start my life from scratch,” Ashrafi said. She restarted her education at Fresno […]
DMK students explore environmental science during field trip
SANDY CREEK - Dennis M. Kenney Middle School students in Dr. Christine Lamont’s class recently took their learning outdoors during a hands-on educational visit to Rice Creek Field Station.The visit gave students the opportunity to explore environmental science concepts through a series of interactive learning stations designed to connect classroom instruction with real-world experiences. × This page requires Javascript. Javascript is required for you to be able to read premium content. Please enable it in your browser settings. kAm$EF56?ED C@E2E65 E9C@F89 DE2E:@?D 7@4FD65 @? H2E6C 496>:DECJ[ A=2?E 2DD6DD>6?E[ 3:@=@8J 2?5 >@C6[ 2D E96J :?G6DE:82E65 5:776C6?E 2DA64ED @7 E96 64@DJDE6> 2?5 82:?65 7:CDE92?5 6IA6C:6?46 H:E9 D4:6?E:7:4 @3D6CG2E:@? 2?5 2DD6DD>6?E E649?:BF6D]k^AmkAm“tIA6C:6?46D =:@?E] “q6:?8 23=6 E@ 6IA=@C6[ @3D6CG6 2?5 2D< BF6DE:@?D :? 2 ?2EFC2= 6?G:C@?>6?E >262?:?87F= 2?5 8:G6D DEF56?ED 2 492?46 E@ 2AA=J H92E E96J’G6 =62C?65 :? 4=2DD]”k^AmkAm%96 G:D:E E@ #:46 rC66< u:6=5 $E2E:@? H2D A2CE @7 E96 5:DEC:4E’D @?8@:?8 677@CED E@ AC@G:56 DEF56?ED H:E9 6?828:?8[ 92?5D\@? =62C?:?8 6IA6C:6?46D E92E 6IE6?5 36J@?5 E96 EC25:E:@?2= 4=2DDC@@>]k^Am googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('yup-rectangle-one'); });
School of Nursing receives grant to develop competency-based curriculum
The University of Texas at San Antonio’s School of Nursing is one of eight Texas universities and colleges to receive grant funding through the Nursing Innovation Grant Program to support innovative prelicensure educational programs for nursing students and expand healthcare workforce capacity across the state. The school will receive $716,174 in funding through a […]
First Flinders University cohort earn URI certificate in nuclear engineering through partnership
KINGSTON, R.I.—Nov. 13, 2026—Nineteen Flinders University students are the first graduates of Australia’s inaugural undergraduate nuclear engineering major, earning a certificate from the University of Rhode Island through a pioneering partnership with Flinders to help build the workforce needed for AUKUS. The research and education partnership between the two institutions, signed in May 2023, advances […]
Where is the education program at the Lucas Museum?
Critics point to a disconnect between the education program the Lucas Museum promised when it was approved by the city, and what it delivered upon opening.
Grambling State University to Offer Bachelor's Degree in Public Health | The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
“Public health plays an essential role in the health and well-being of our communities,” said Grambling State University President Martin Lemelle, Jr. “This new degree gives our students another opportunity to pursue careers in the health field while gaining the knowledge and skills needed to address issues affecting communities across Louisiana and beyond.”
SPH Launches New Center for Convergent Work on Maternal and Child Health
Patricia Elliot, clinical associate professor of community health sciences, and Martha Werler, professor of epidemiology, will co-direct the new center, which builds on three decades of MCH education, practice, and research across the school.
Rappahannock Tribe adds solar power at environmental education lodge
The Rappahannock Tribe installed a grant-funded, 28-panel solar array at its Virginia lodge to reduce utility costs and support environmental education.
Cleveland Clinic Opens Teaching Kitchen and Food Pantry on Cleveland's East Side
New space expands access to nutrition education, healthy cooking skills and food resources at the Langston Hughes Community Health & Education Center
‘No money left’: Colorado faces $1.6 billion budget deficit
With close to 60 days left in his term, Gov. Jared Polis outlined his final proposed spending plan for the state Tuesday to the Joint Budget Committee, emphasizing fiscal sustainability and targeted investments in education and healthcare for the coming 2027-28 fiscal year.
AOA Scholar's Program
The University of Central Florida and AOA are connecting themed experience education with the professional skills needed to deliver attractions
Policy change could allow Trump administration to police political speech on college campuses
There are fears that the Education Department's new rule for college accreditors could threaten campus academic freedom.
The XI USERN Congress
USERN (Universal Scientific Education and Research Network) is a worldwide network of scientists from all disciplines, counting over 26,000 members in over 100 countries.
Young Actors artistic director educates, empowers the next generation
J. Scott Handley leads YAT's performing arts education curriculum, seeking ways to provide students with enriching experiences.
Immigration uncertainty is a mental health issue
Columnist Crystal Puente argues that UT should take a more proactive approach in supporting students whose immigration status can disrupt their education and mental health.
McWane Science Center receives $253K to expand STEM education across Alabama
New STEM education funding will help Birmingham's McWane Science Center reach more students in rural and underserved Alabama communities.
Equine Affaire brings four days of horses, shopping and entertainment to The Big E
Horse lovers of all ages are gathering at The Big E fairgrounds in West Springfield as Equine Affaire returns for four days of equestrian activities, educational programs and entertainment.
Equine Affaire brings four days of horses, shopping and entertainment to The Big E
Horse lovers of all ages are gathering at The Big E fairgrounds in West Springfield as Equine Affaire returns for four days of equestrian activities, educational programs and entertainment.
Regents Approve $50 Million Health Education and Research Building in McAllen
Building will give Rio Grande Valley students more room to train for careers in public health and pharmacy
M3 Youth Film Festival brings entertainment education to Georgia State University
Read M3 Youth Film Festival brings entertainment education to Georgia State University by Delaney Tarr for SaportaReport here.
NFL Players Inc.’s Matthew Curtin joins Penn State Smeal Board of Visitors
Penn State alumnus and NFL Players Inc. President Matthew Curtin joins the Penn State Smeal Board of Visitors to help shape the future of sports business education.
Local students sought for science research initiative
Students in Port Aransas, Rockport and surrounding communities will have an opportunity to work alongside university researchers. The University of Texas Marine Science Institute (UTMSI) is recruiting local students to participate in Frontiers for Young Minds, a worldwide program that publishes scientific research papers written specifically for younger readers. Joshua Avalos, education coordinator for the
R&R Realty Group employees raise more than $153,000 for United Way
R&R Realty Group raised more than $153,000 for United Way of Central Iowa through its 2026 employee giving campaign. The annual campaign featured a week of fundraising events, including individual employee donations and company-wide fundraisers. Combined with a corporate contribution, the funds will support United Way of Central Iowa’s programs focused on education, financial stability…
Mercy Health Sciences University nursing program earns 10-year reaccreditation
The Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education has granted continued accreditation to the Bachelor of Science in Nursing program at Mercy Health Sciences University’s Joyce E. Lillis College of Nursing. The accreditation extends through Dec. 31, 2036, the longest term awarded by the commission. The decision follows a comprehensive self-study and an on-site evaluation in March…
Mercy Health Sciences University nursing program earns 10-year reaccreditation
The Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education has granted continued accreditation to the Bachelor of Science in Nursing program at Mercy Health Sciences University’s Joyce E. Lillis College of Nursing. The accreditation extends through Dec. 31, 2036, the longest term awarded by the commission. The decision follows a comprehensive self-study and an on-site evaluation in March…
Mercy Health Sciences University nursing program earns 10-year reaccreditation
The Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education has granted continued accreditation to the Bachelor of Science in Nursing program at Mercy Health Sciences University’s Joyce E. Lillis College of Nursing. The accreditation extends through Dec. 31, 2036, the longest term awarded by the commission. The decision follows a comprehensive self-study and an on-site evaluation in March…
UAMS, University of Arkansas Rich Mountain Sign Agreement to Open Healthcare Education Pathways
FAYETTEVILLE — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and the University of Arkansas Rich Mountain (UA Rich Mountain) have signed a formal Memorandum of Agreement that gives UA Rich Mountain students a clearer, faster path into UAMS health professions and nursing programs. The agreement covers six UAMS programs…
Raising the steaks: Mizzou Meat Market carves out new future in state-of-the-art space
The Mizzou Meat Market’s new space in the Michael L. Parson Meat Science Education and Training Laboratory aims to expand hands-on opportunities for students.
Young people should get fewer welfare benefits, according to Milburn review on the workforce
Milburn’s review is considering how to address the growing number of young people classified as not in education, employment or training
‘That’s life’ : How Shea La Vie Cupcakery turned baking into a business
During the pandemic, 14-year-old Shea Curtin faced a choice between scrolling on her phone or having her mom throw it out the window. Now a junior majoring in education under the Multiple Abilities Program, she remembers the last thing she saw before giving up the device: a video of cupcakes. Shea La Vie Cupcakery, Curtin’s...
KWU Gifted $150,000 in Support of Science Equipment
Wednesday afternoon, Kansas Wesleyan University announced a $150,000 gift from the Jack Wilson Charitable Trust in support of the university’s science programs. According to KWU, the investment will help strengthen educational opportunities for current and future students by enhancing equipment resources that support hands-on learning, faculty instruction and student success. “We are deeply grateful to […]
Democratic flip on Texas State Board of Education could bring more inclusive history and science lessons to classrooms
Marisa Pérez-Díaz, District 3 member on the Texas State Board of Education says the new Democratic majority on the SBOE creates an opportunity to reconsider curriculum standards that critics say were historically inaccurate, pro-Christian and downplayed the contributions of minority communities to the story of Texas.
Carol J. Levy, MD, CDCES, Named Chief of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Bone Disease at Mount Sinai Health System
Global leader in diabetes technology will guide clinical care, research, and education across Mount Sinai
UOnline offers a Master of Science with an Emphasis on Nursing Education
The program is entirely online so it is designed for nurses who have careers or life or family responsibilities.
College of Public Health hosts trauma-informed campus conference
The event focused on how trauma-informed principles can be applied in higher education.
New public transit, safer streets advocacy group aims to bring ‘national political firepower’
The Center for American Mobility and a sister research and education fund aim to support transportation issues and empower local advocates, its CEO said.
The Real Madrid Graduate School - Universidad Europea and Henan University partner to launch a master's program in sports training and nutrition
The Real Madrid Graduate School - Universidad Europea and Henan University have received official approval from China's Ministry of Education to...
Investing in Hawaiʻi's Future: Shidler Awards $1.4M+ in Scholarships
More than 470 Shidler students benefit from donor generosity, opening doors to educational opportunities, career growth and future leadership.
Who could replace Mike Morath at leader of the Texas Education Agency
The first Democrat-appointed Texas education commissioner in 35 years is likely to be someone who has credibility with superintendents and Republicans alike.
ICDS Symposium's 'contagious' energy celebrates student, faculty research
Over 230 students, faculty and staff from Penn State and other institutions of higher education attended this year's Institute for Computational and Data Sciences Symposium on Oct. 14 at University Park.
Research program films accepted to American Public Health Association 2026 Meeting
Four educational films produced through the Neurocognitive Aging and Analytics Research Education (NAARE) Program at Cal State Fullerton and the University of Southern California were selected for screening at the American Public Health Association 2026 Annual Meeting, one of the nation’s largest public health conferences. The films highlight research and education on brain health, Alzheimer’s disease, aging, health disparities and neurocognitive aging.
UNO Lands NSF Grant to Turn Sports Into a Gateway for STEM Education
The SPARK-AI project led by Biomechanics Associate Professor Brian Knarr, Ph.D., will help Omaha middle school students explore AI, data science, and STEM careers through the science of sports.
UNO Lands NSF Grant to Turn Sports Into a Gateway for STEM Education
The SPARK-AI project led by Biomechanics Associate Professor Brian Knarr, Ph.D., will help Omaha middle school students explore AI, data science, and STEM careers through the science of sports.
Connection Helps Organizations Turn Microsoft Copilot into Measurable Business Value
MERRIMACK, N.H., November 10, 2026--Connection (PC Connection, Inc.; NASDAQ: CNXN), a leading provider of information technology solutions to business, government, healthcare, and education markets, is pleased to announce that it has earned the Microsoft Copilot specialization. The achievement recognizes Connection’s expertise in helping organizations securely adopt Microsoft 365 Copilot and translate artificial intelligence investments into measurable business value.
DOH-Marion Offers Diabetes Education Class in Ocala - Florida Department of Health in Marion County
The weekly classes will be held from 10 a.m. – noon beginning Tuesday, January 5, 2027, through Tuesday, February 9, 2027.
Rice Business takes No. 1 graduate entrepreneurship ranking for 8th consecutive year
Rice Business has been named the nation’s No. 1 graduate program for entrepreneurship for the eighth consecutive year by The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine. This recognition reflects a universitywide ecosystem that connects rigorous entrepreneurship education with hands-on venture creation and helps students turn ideas into companies and impact.
Chris Kyriacou wins Chronicle's inaugural John Beam Community Action Award
The winner of the Chronicle's inaugural John Beam Community Action Award is a physical education teacher at Bishop O'Dowd High School and the coach of the Oakland Wildcats.
Amid budget cuts and a campus closure, Adelphi taps foreign visa workers to teach science, PE
Adelphi University applied to sponsor a foreign worker for an assistant professor of physical education role paying $76,000 per year, one of five positions the school slated for the H-1B visa program…
Democrats plan to use new power to rein in Trump's education agenda. But their tools are limited
Democrats in Congress are gearing up to challenge President Donald Trump's education policies, including the dismantling of the U.S. Education Department.
FSU Wertheim College receives ‘transformational’ investment to name the Florida Surplus Lines Center for Insurance Excellence
Further strengthening its extraordinary record of commitment to risk management and insurance research and education at Florida State University, the
Southeastern Tile Connection Sponsors Asheville Museum of Science's Under the Stars
Southeastern Tile Connection sponsors AMOS's 10th-anniversary gala, Under the Stars, on Nov. 6 to support hands-on STEM education across Western North Carolina.
CCHS Science Curriculum Complements Our Catholic Identity
TOLEDO, OH - At Central Catholic, our education is about developing the whole person - intellectually, spiritually, morally, and emotionally - as well as preparing students academically. Teachers in all subject areas incorporate Catholic teaching into their curriculum. In the sc
Teach a child to cook, and they’ll still overeat
A vast amount of research shows that education and advice don’t effectively reduce obesity.
Bartender’s Circle returns to Belgrade
This year’s Bartender’s Circle conference will tackle education and the pressures facing hospitality, alongside bar takeovers in Belgrade.
International Week of Science and Peace: Girls in Afghanistan Still Denied Education
The International Week of Science and Peace is being observed around the world at a time when women and girls
Newsmakers: Dartmouth Health doctor appointed president of A...
This week’s Newsmakers highlights leadership appointments, professional certifications and expanded health care and education services across New Hampshire and ...
St. Charles D303’s 2026 Distinguished Alumni Class features WNBA health star, ‘The Bear’ actor
The St. Charles D303 '2026 Distinguished Alumni Class' features - the director of health for a WNBA team, an entrepreneur who once made the Forbes 30 Under 30 list, an actor featured on the Emmy-winning show The Bear, and a local assistant superintendent of education.
Colorado’s Doctors Care helps those who might fall through medical system’s cracks
Doctors Care’s mission is to provide medical care and education to Coloradans who may slip through the cracks of today’s complex and expensive health care system.
Miami Heart Walk brings community together to support heart health, CPR awareness
Community members gathered Saturday morning, November 7, at loanDepot park for the Miami Heart Walk, an annual event hosted by the American Heart Association to raise awareness about heart health, promote CPR education and bring the community together in support of lifesaving initiatives.
South Texas Health System (@stxhealthsystem)
Investing in Tomorrow’s Healthcare Workforce: With healthcare occupations projected to generate approximately 1.9 million job openings annually through 2035, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, preparing the next generation of healthcare professionals has never been more important. Recognizing the critical role education plays in workforce development, South Texas Health System continues to invest in local colleges, universities and nonprofit organizations that help cultivate future healthcare professionals, including the Texas A&M University Higher Education Center at McAllen (@tamumcallen). As part of its longstanding partnership with Texas A&M University, STHS has once again contributed $5,000 to the university's McAllen campus. The donation will support the campus' Bachelor of Science in Nursing program, which launched in January 2026, while helping students pursue careers in healthcare. This marks the third consecutive year STHS has provided financial support to the Texas A&M University Higher Education Center at McAllen. The contribution will help offset educational expenses through scholarship opportunities while supporting efforts to expand allied health programs and enhance workforce training initiatives designed to meet the growing healthcare needs of the region - @stxhealthsystem on November 7, 2026
Honolulu summit focuses on building AI-ready workforce for Hawaiʻi
Organizers of the fifth annual Hawaiʻi AI and Cloud Innovation Summit said the event drew hundreds of business, government, nonprofit, education and technology leaders to the Hilton Waikiki Beach Resort to discuss how artificial intelligence could affect Hawaiʻi’s economy and jobs. TRUE Initiative convened the summit with the state Department of Business, Economic Development and […]
Kotek says data center rules, universal preschool among priorities for next 4 years
Gov. Tina Kotek says her second term will focus on universal preschool, stronger oversight of data centers, education reforms and streamlining state government.
Campbell hosts Harnett business leaders for economic update
Photo by Campbell University Harnett County has grown more than 27% over the last 15 years and is on the cusp of significant growth in the business sector as well. Campbell University recently hosted the 2026 Harnett County Economic Development Update; this was the university's third year in a row hosting the event. The annual event invites elected officials, business leaders and stakeholders from Harnett and its neighboring counties to share updates on new projects, economic trends and announcements from the previous year. Campbell’s continued involvement is part of its five-year Strategic Plan, launched earlier this year, which lists “community impact” as one of its four main objectives. “Every place I have ever worked, the university has been viewed by its surrounding community and region as an asset to economic development, as an inducement to business and industry and as a driver of innovation. It has been seen as the indispensable partner for growth,” Campbell President Dr. William M. Downs told the group of about 200 in attendance. “We ask that you save us a seat at your table when you are dreaming big about the future of this county and beyond. Campbell University is open for business, and we’d like to do business with you.”In addition to Campbell, Harnett is home to Harnett County Schools and its Career & Technical Education programs and a satellite campus of Central Carolina Community College, home of the Eugene Moore Manufacturing & Biotech Solutions Center (the largest training facility in the state). Stephen Barrington, Harnett County Economic Development director, shared the county’s latest initiatives, focus areas and opportunities in economic development. He lauded Campbell and the county’s strong educational and training infrastructure for training the area’s current and future workforce.“Workforce is at the top of the list when we talk about economic development,” Barrington said in a press release. “Work and skill-ready talent remains at the top of the list [of assets in Harnett County]. We’re extremely grateful for the education and training of our students for the next generation.”One big project landed in September when Harnett County was awarded a $500,000 Build Ready Sites grant from the North Carolina Railroad Company to advance a rail-served industrial site. The investment will help prepare the property for future development and strengthen Harnett County’s ability to compete for rail-served projects. The funding will support Byrd Industrial Site B, an 83-acre site with 58 developable acres within the Byrd Industrial Sites in Lillington.Harnett County is also actively working with Samet Corp. is actively working with Samet Corp. on the development of a 175,500-square-foot speculative industrial building to stimulate economic development.Featured speaker was Ted Abernathy, founding and managing partner of Economic Leadership, a small group of data, strategy and best-practice policy experts that work with companies, foundations and business organizations to analyze competitiveness, develop strategy, support leadership, tune communications and reimagine the future.Abernathy lauded Harnett County’s proximity to one of the fastest-growing and most business-friendly regions in the country — the Research Triangle and Raleigh-Durham metropolitan area — and said Harnett needs to attract more businesses that offer higher-paying jobs to compete. “The quality of the jobs you attract is one of the challenges for you as you go forward,” Abernathy said in a press release. “You need more high-paying jobs. A big chunk of the population here is making $25 to $50 an hour, which is good. But where you’re really weak is this high end. If you looked at Raleigh or Durham or Mecklenburg, that number would be a third of their jobs.”Learn more about Harnett County Economic Development and current projects happening at harnettedc.org.
13 organizations in Allen County awarded grants to continue health education programming
The 2027 funding for Allen County amounts to $835,000 parceled out to 13 organizations.
Rutgers School of Nursing Is Well Represented Among 2026 Rutgers Health Chancellor Award Honorees
Ten faculty and staff members at the Rutgers School of Nursing are recognized for contributions to education, community service, inclusive culture, teamwork and lifetime achievement.
Building a stronger behavioral health system for Ohio
The Ohio Education Research Center (OERC) in the John Glenn College of Public Affairs and the College of Social Work at The Ohio State University have partnered with the Ohio Department of Behavioral Health to support the state’s behavioral health professionals in selecting and delivering prevention and early intervention strategies that are b...
How San Antonio connects military and civilian medicine
Robert Miller, MD, shares how UT Health San Antonio’s Military Health Institute advances military medicine and supports service members, veterans and their families through research, education and partnership.
The Princeton Review names SRU to its 2027 Mental Health Services Honor Roll
Slippery Rock University is one of 76 undergraduate institutions nationwide that the education services company The Princeton Review has named to its Mental Health Services Honor Roll for 2027. The Honor Roll recognition is part of an annual project—now in its third year—that The Princeton Review conducts in partnership with the Ruderman Family Foundation, an internationally recognized organization that works…
Becoming a Black Scientist: Why the Path Is Harder
Black scientists face barriers from education through to employment, including disparities in representation, unemployment, and progression opportunities. Improving access alone is insufficient; structural and cultural factors must be addressed.
CU faculty to use award to study rural student success in science
CLEMSON — A Clemson University faculty member with a background in rural education outreach and research will use an award from the National Science Foundation to better understand how rural
Food Literacy: An Overlooked Ingredient in Healthy Eating
Food literacy combines nutrition knowledge with the skills needed to plan meals, select foods, and prepare them within everyday constraints. Research on cooking and nutrition education suggests potential benefits, but evidence that improving food literacy produces lasting dietary changes or better health remains limited.
Connor Shaw’s nonprofit partners with Prisma Health to expand CPR education
Former South Carolina quarterback Connor Shaw’s nonprofit, HRTHUDL, is partnering with Prisma Health to expand CPR education, raise awareness about sudden cardiac arrest and increase access to automated external defibrillators, or AEDs.
Prisma Health partners with HRTHUDL for CPR education and increasing access to AEDs
Prisma Health partners with HRTHUDL for CPR education and increasing access to AEDs
Soda-soaked eggs and a lost tooth: Med student teaches oral health in Lebanon
Moreen Ng, a medical student at Dartmouth's Geisel School of Medicine, recently visited Hanover Street Elementary School in Lebanon to provide oral health education to third-graders in the face of limited dental care available in the Upper Valley.
Eilers Family Sports and Human Performance Institute marks first-of-its-kind Notre Dame partnership across athletics and academics
Pat and Jana Eilers of Winnetka, Illinois, have made an additional $25 million gift to the University of Notre Dame to create the new Eilers Family Sports and Human Performance Institute, increasing their total investment in this area to $50 million. A first-of-its-kind partnership between Notre Dame Athletics and the University’s academic units, the institute will support cutting-edge research on physiology, neuroscience, data science, and athletic performance—integrating scholarship with one of the premier athletics programs in American higher education.
Tillamook teen wins national FFA title for flower business
Coastal town known for dairy, but students get well-rounded ag education Tillamook, Ore., is known for dairy, but a student from this coastal community won a national FFA title for […]
After Career in Business, Dave Winter Serves Hometown as Parish Life Director
The former investment manager and local shoe store owner now turns his skills, education, and experience to leading Holy Cross Parish in Springfield, Delaware County.
Rodrigo Martin Suarez on leadership and education in Fresno
Meet Rodrigo Martin Suarez of California Teaching Fellows Foundation. Discover how his journey shapes education and leadership in the Central Valley. Read more.
Rhode Island voters approve higher education bond, providing funds for new URI integrated health building
KINGSTON, R.I. – Nov. 5, 2026 – Rhode Island voters overwhelmingly approved Question 1 on Election Day, Nov. 3, authorizing a $275 million bond investment in the state’s public colleges and universities, including $165 million for a new integrated health building at the University of Rhode Island’s Kingston Campus. The bond approval represents a significant […]
Why Youth Are Turning to AI for Mental Health Advice
Hannah Simon — a child and adolescent psychiatrist and the medical director of the Brandt Behavioral Health Treatment Center and Retreat at Rutgers, which provides evidence-based behavioral health care and outpatient services to New Jersey youth and young adults — discusses the increased use of chatbots for mental health advice and best practices for using it as an educational tool.
I lost my period for two decades — I wish I had known what I know now
A former patient shares her struggle with hypothalamic amenorrhea and advocates for better education on the menstrual cycle as a vital sign.
How Camp KEEP Turned a Love of Science into a Calling to Teach
Inspired by a transformative sixth-grade experience at Camp KEEP, Frontier High School student teacher Marissa Moseley went on to conduct important scientific research, develop drought-resistant crops, and pursue a career in education to inspire the...
‘ResearchED’: Building the Case for Learning Science, One Saturday a Time
MAPLEWOOD, Mo. — At your typical education conference, the keynote speaker takes the stage with a big, flashy multimedia slide show and innovative ideas guaranteed to pump up the crowd. But on a recen...
Public health experts demand tighter global restrictions on fireworks
Fireworks pose an underestimated danger to public health and require stronger regulations and sustained public education campaigns to help prevent devastating, yet entirely avoidable injuries, warn US experts in The BMJ today.
State Prize for VISTA Science Experience Center
The VISTA Science Experience Center was awarded the 2026 Austrian State Prize for Adult Education in the category “Science Education for Adults.” Federal Minister Eva-Maria Holzleitner presented the award on November 4 at the Haus der Begegnung in Vienna. The award recognizes the innovative concept
When papers become currency: a Chinese debate about trust in science
Last Saturday, 31 October, I went to the University of Hong Kong’s Beijing Centre for its Talent Forum. It was the fourth stop in the series this year, following events in Shanghai’s Zhangjiang, Shenzhen’s Qianhai, and on HKU’s main campus. The programme covered a remarkable distance in one afternoon. HKU’s Xiao-Jing Wang discussed computational neuroscience, intelligence, and the prefrontal cortex—before even delivering his inaugural public lecture to students back in Hong Kong. His colleague Bing Zhang took us from the Big Bang to artificial intelligence. Tsinghua’s Xue Lan asked how AI might reshape the institutional infrastructure underpinning higher education. There were lively panels featuring industry leaders from JD.com, Xiaomi, Haier—and Kaiser Y Kuo on the closing panel discussing innovation and international connections. I cannot pretend to have followed every detail of the brain models or the astrophysics. The talk that stayed with me was closer to something we have covered before: Zhou Zhonghe 周忠和 on papers, evaluation, and scientific trust. Zhou is a palaeontologist, an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and an international member of the US National Academy of Sciences. He is also editor-in-chief of The Intellectual (知识分子), China’s leading science commentary platform. His subject was uncomfortable enough for a room full of successful academics: what happens when the system for recognising good science starts rewarding something else? Part of my interest came from our sister newsletter, The East is Read, which covered the controversy around “Geng Tongxue” in May. A PhD dropout from Beihang University, Geng has publicly challenged papers by prominent researchers through detailed online allegations of manipulated images and fabricated data. At Tongji University, an investigation into a challenged Nature paper found academic misconduct, and the dean of its life sciences school was removed. The affair brought doubts about academic integrity well beyond laboratories and university committees. How could someone outside the established hierarchy spot problems in papers that had passed through prestigious journals and institutions? And what, exactly, had all that prestige guaranteed? Zhou approached these questions through two essays published in July by The Intellectual: one by Wang Xiaodong, director of the National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing, and a response by Wang Liming, of Shanghai’s Shangsi Institute of Natural Sciences. Both began with the controversy over Geng. Their arguments deserve a wider audience, so I want to put parts of them alongside what Zhou said on Saturday. Wang Xiaodong’s starting point is evolution. A research system selects for the behaviour it rewards. Grants, jobs, journals, talent programmes, and prizes collectively determine which scientists prosper and which practices get passed down from advisors to students. “Whatever the system rewards is what it will evolve to produce,” he writes, citing the ancient Chinese saying: The King of Chu loved slender waists, and many in the palace starved to death. That is a more demanding diagnosis than saying there are dishonest people in science. Punishing a fraudster does not change the selective environment that made a particular kind of research profitable. His account also gives scientific success an awkward role in the story. As Zhou put it on Saturday, science became a victim of its own success. Once research became central to industry, national power, and economic growth, universities and laboratories expanded, and public money followed. That created an administrative need for rapid decisions: who should get the next grant, the next laboratory, the next appointment? The difficulty is that the true value of a discovery may take years or decades of testing and building to become clear. Resource allocation cannot wait that long. Publication counts, journal prestige, impact factors, and citations therefore become convenient ways to make an instant judgement. “The real problem is not that these indicators have no value,” Wang Xiaodong writes, “but that they are trying to answer a question that only time can answer.” Telling administrators simply to stop counting papers will never be enough. They still have budgets to distribute and appointments to make. Something has to replace the shortcut. Zhou described the consequences inside publishing. Papers acquire ever more requirements: a complete story, polished presentation, extensive datasets, and accessibility to readers beyond the immediate field. Individually, those demands sound reasonable. Together, he warned, they produce formulaic “eight-legged” papers 八股文 and rigid reviewing, while genuinely original or non-consensus work struggles to get past journal editors—some of whom wield immense gatekeeping power despite having limited laboratory experience themselves. Meanwhile, the demands for sprawling, “complete” narratives have fuelled a wider replication crisis. Wang Xiaodong uses a mahjong metaphor to describe the result: put the complex papers published by the exact same lab over several years side by side, and they often look like “Thirteen Orphans” (十三不靠)—every tile completely unrelated to the next, and none of them reproducible by outsiders. Zhou also spoke frankly as an editor who has trouble finding reviewers. Everyone wants someone else to review their work; qualified senior researchers have little time to return the favour. The labour is anonymous, unpaid, and brings almost no institutional recognition, so it increasingly gets passed down to postdocs and graduate students. And while anonymity protects reviewers from rank and personal favours, hyper-specialisation means an author’s most qualified reviewer is often a direct competitor, shielded from accountability. The protection and the problem coexist. Wang Liming takes the argument a step further. The decisive change, in his essay, is the instant conversion of academic honour into material resources. Once a paper can be cashed in for funding, a job, students, commercial investment, or even a company valuation, scientists are alienated from their work: they must keep minting this “research currency” to keep their teams alive. He is careful not to romanticise the past. The old world of gentleman scientists—financially independent figures like Boyle and Darwin who needed nothing from external funders—was also a closed club that excluded people without inherited wealth, women, and much of humanity outside the West. Professional science allowed ordinary people, himself included, to become researchers. Nobody should want to undo that. The problem, in his account, is an exchange system that becomes too uniform and too difficult to correct. His most pointed Chinese example is the “hat” (帽子): the prestigious talent designation that brings continuing access to money, laboratory space, students, and institutional influence. “If papers are the circulating currency of the research system, then a ‘hat’ is a bond that pays interest over the long term,” he writes. A paper at least requires another round of peer review. A title in the Chinese context can lock in a judgement made years ago and turn it into permanent status rent, regardless of whether its holder is still doing good science. Here, official institutions hire, organise, and evaluate scientists. Unlike honours awarded by autonomous academic communities in the West, a Chinese “hat” blends non-scientist administrative power with state authority. Once granted, it turns a past judgement into permanent status rent that is nearly impossible to revoke—because taking a hat off would imply that official authority erred in putting it on. Both Wangs see China as experiencing, at compressed speed, pressures present across global science. Research expansion, rising investment, publication growth, and elaborate evaluation metrics arrived in China within two or three decades rather than two or three centuries. Zhou agreed with that international framing—noting that recent US White House science policy documents and the new president of the US National Academy of Sciences, a fellow palaeontologist who recently visited Zhou’s institute in Beijing, have raised strikingly similar warnings about consensus-bound peer review, short-term project grants, and the replication crisis. Still, Zhou emphasised that China’s traditional hierarchy, personal networks (guanxi), and the ethos that “a good scholar becomes an official” (学而优则仕) amplify those pressures at home. So what would change things? Here Zhou’s tone differed from the call for a revolution in scientific trust in Wang Xiaodong’s essay. As an evolutionary biologist, Zhou favoured patchwork repair (修修补补). Living systems survive through accumulated adjustments; dramatic mutations are usually fatal. Science cannot return to a small, slow-moving pastoral era, especially after the successive accelerations of professionalisation after the Second World War, the internet, and now artificial intelligence. But it can alter the local environment in which researchers work. He pointed to domestic experiments designed to support unconventional research and diversify funding, including Tencent’s New Cornerstone Investigator Program, the Xplorer Prize, and the Future Science Prize. He also mentioned participating in reviews for “major non-consensus projects” under the National Natural Science Foundation of China. One guiding principle he recalled was wonderfully direct: “Failure is allowed; corruption is not” (允许失败，不允许腐败). That distinction would mean quite a lot if taken seriously. An honest attempt that fails should not have to disguise itself as a success to survive an assessment. Wang Liming’s essay adds a sharp caveat to the optimism about new domestic funders. Multiple organisations do not automatically produce multiple ways of judging science. If the same pool of senior domestic scientists makes the decisions through the same two-round review procedures, it is still “fake diversity.” He argues for three distinct kinds of money: broad baseline funding governed by fair procedures; patient funding for questions that take ten years; and non-consensus funding based on individual taste, deliberately empowering a few genuine experts to make biased, contrarian bets on eccentric ideas that would inevitably be averaged out by a committee. Replacing one monopoly with another achieves little; a healthy ecosystem needs variance. Zhou’s proposals for publishing were similarly concrete: strip papers of their resource-allocation burden and return them to recording discoveries and establishing priority; separate dissemination from evaluation, as eLife and Peer Community In do; adopt more modular “micro-publications” and real-name endorsements; recognize the labour of editors and reviewers; and give replication work proper credit rather than treating it as an unpublishable dead end. AI makes every part of this debate more urgent—and Zhou wove it throughout his talk. In his own preparation, he used AI to survey the declining influence of academic monographs, noting how tools are already changing how scholars gather information. More fundamentally, he placed AI as the latest great acceleration in scientific history: just as the internet sped up the pace of research and tightened external resource pressures, AI is compressing the cycle again. In the essays Zhou cited, AI cuts both ways. Wang Xiaodong expects large language models to erase much of the English-writing disadvantage long faced by Chinese scientists, further swelling the flood of papers coming out of Chinese labs. Wang Liming sees AI accelerating both ends of the trust crisis: it lowers the cost of paper mills and fabricated images just as quickly as it lowers the cost of automated image forensics, data auditing, and code reproduction. “Whoever builds the verification layer wins,” Wang Liming writes. His proposed alternative to the static, packaged “story paper” is a continuously versioned “unit of discovery” containing a falsifiable claim, raw data, analysis code, experimental parameters, and an ongoing log of independent checks—where negative results and failed replications are recorded rather than buried. Zhou ended his keynote by bringing AI back to the question of scientific honour and credit. Citing a recent Intellectual discussion on “What AI Means for Mathematics” featuring Fields Medalist Deng Yu 邓煜—at a moment when AI is already batch-solving mathematical conjectures, as HKU Vice-President Lin Chen noted in his opening remarks—Zhou agreed that human researchers must remain the principal agents: AI is a tool that frees scientists from tedious calculation to think about deeper, messier real-world problems. Yet that partnership creates a thorny new evaluation problem. When a breakthrough is made with AI, what is the human contribution and what is the machine’s? And since AI models distil centuries of accumulated human scholarship, is it right that the credit and value flow so heavily to the private AI companies building the tools? The old struggle over how to assign scientific honour is acquiring a whole new layer. What I took away was a serious discussion of how science can remain trustworthy as its scale, incentives, and tools change. These were scientists with real standing inside China’s system questioning how that standing is produced, and proposing changes that would affect their own institutions and peers. That made the afternoon at HKU’s Beijing Centre worthwhile. At the close, Wang Feng, Director of Communications and Public Affairs at HKU, said the value of the forum series—which heads to Hangzhou in December and cities like Chengdu early next year—would lie in the real cooperation it helped bring about. The university has plenty to celebrate: this week it topped the QS Asia rankings for a second consecutive year, alongside its 11th-place position in the QS World University Rankings 2027. For me, bringing this debate to an audience beyond the people who review papers and allocate grants was a useful contribution. 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