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ACU launches new marine scholarships

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The Ocean Country Partnership Programme, organised by ACU and the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science , allows students in the various countries to undertake a master’s in marine science. It follows a successful pilot of the program in the South Pacific in 2022.

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Georgetown, Howard, and Morgan State Partner for Environmental Data Initiative

Insight Into Diversity

The MDI is collaborating with Howard University researchers on projects that examine environmental impacts on disadvantaged communities, including air quality testing in low-income households, traffic pollution in marginalized populations, and health outcome patterns in Washington, D.C.

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Health Professions Students Grade Their Institutions on Climate Change Awareness

Insight Into Diversity

Students sign up to lead teams to evaluate their schools across five categories: curriculum, interdisciplinary research in health and environment, community outreach and advocacy, support for student-led initiatives, and campus sustainability. More than 80 institutions in seven countries participate in the project.

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Scammers, fraudsters are putting academia in peril. What can we do?

University Business

“These retractions … have adversely affected our country’s academic reputation and academic environment,” said a Nov. Scientific knowledge is being polluted by made-up material. It became such an epidemic that Hindawi’s retractions spurred the Chinese government into action.

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Professor says he was barred from campus after Monsanto info request

Inside Higher Ed

in lawsuits alleging harm from toxic environmental pollutants called PCBs says that after a Monsanto lawyer filed a records request with his university, the university barred him from campus and offered him a resignation deal. Image: A professor who frequently testifies against Monsanto Co.

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A New Paper Defends the Use of Race in Medicine. Not Everyone is Convinced.

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

But the argument comes down to this: although race is imprecise, it is still meaningfully linked to many other factors that play a role in health, such as wealth, genetics, and a patient’s physical environment. If we measured people’s environments better and had genetic measures, we could have better predictions,” said Manski.

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Meet Some of this Year's MacArthur Fellows

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“They forge stunning forms of artistic expression from ancestral and regional traditions, heighten our attention to the natural world, improve how we process massive flows of information for the common good, and deepen understanding of systems shaping our environment.”