Science Education & Policy

A study by psychologists at Stanford, Pennsylvania State University and the University of California-Berkeley says that many Americans subconsciously associate blacks with apes. In addition, the findings show that society is more likely to condone violence against black criminal suspects as a result of its broader inability to accept African Americans as fully human, according to the researchers. Co-author Jennifer Eberhardt, a Stanford associate professor of psychology, said she was shocked by the results, particularly since they involved subjects born after Jim Crow and the civil rights…

WASHINGTON, February 7 /PRNewswire/ -- - Statement of Matthew L. Myers President, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids The World Health Organization (WHO) today released a landmark report that makes clear both the devastating scope of the global tobacco epidemic - it is the leading cause of preventable death in the world today - and the fact that it is entirely preventable if nations urgently implement proven solutions. This report presents the first comprehensive picture of what the world's nations are doing to address this public health crisis, and it demonstrates starkly that most nations are…

AMSTERDAM, February 7 /PRNewswire/ -- - University Uses Scopus Data to Create Management Strategy Map Scopus(R) today announced that Kyushu University is using its data to create and test QUEST-MAP, the management strategy map it developed to plan its reorganization. The University chose Scopus for its comprehensiveness and objective data, to help capture the current state of its research activities University wide. Scopus is now playing a pioneering role in enabling metric-based analysis of the University's research output, providing Kyushu University with the information it needs to…

In most of western civilization, smoking rates have dropped. But in Spanish society cigarette use among women has gone up in the last 50 years. A study carried out at the Department of Anthropology at the University of Granada has examined, both at a quantitative and a qualitative level, the reasons for the increase - and it's about men, they say. According to the study, cigarettes have become very important for women in order to; face up to stress and anxiety control appetite and body weight facilitate interaction in social relations assert independence In that sense, they are used as…

PLEASANTON, California, February 7 /PRNewswire/ -- - The first ever on-demand, hands-on training program for the server virtualization industry is launched by Citrix to train its worldwide channel partners. Toolwire, a leading innovator of experiential distance learning solutions announces their agreement with Citrix Systems, Inc. to develop and deliver an on-demand lab environment to train Citrix worldwide channel partners. When Citrix acquired XenSource, the company's global ecosystem of partners and resellers needed to become competent on the newly acquired Citrix XenServer…

Thousands of times a year, a single cell extraction from an embryo is performed to screen for genetic diseases. As of January 2008, the cell could be allowed to divide and the copy used for research without harm to the embryo. Current federal funding is prohibited for experiments that injure or destroy human embryonic stem cells and is limited to cells extracted before President Bush's declaration of August 9, 2001. Meanwhile, four hundred thousand embryos are sitting in clinics waiting to be implanted in the mother's womb or to be discarded – a practice of which no one has raised a…

Citizen Science – Past, Present & Future, to be held at Vaughan College, the University’s Institute of Lifelong Learning, will showcase longstanding research from the University’s Departments of Biology and Lifelong Learning, as well as from the Rutland Water Nature Reserve, the British Trust for Ornithology, Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) and the Earthwatch Institute, all linked with the University. Its emphasis will be on how ordinary citizens have helped scientific research over the years of the University’s existence. In making this connection, the conference goes back to…

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, February 6 /PRNewswire/ -- - Microsoft and BT host workshop to help students from six countries turn their software applications into marketable products. BT and Microsoft Corp have brought 24 aspiring software developers from around the world to the Silicon Valley for two weeks to participate in the third annual Imagine Cup Innovation Accelerator programme. The students, representing the top six software design teams at the 2007 Imagine Cup Worldwide Finals, are from Ireland, Jamaica, Korea, Mexico, Poland and Thailand. This unique event challenges these students…

ST. LOUIS, Missouri, February 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Mosby's Nursing Skills(TM), the online nursing skills and reference system from Elsevier, today announced the launch of Mosby's Nursing Skills-Pediatric Collection, the largest and most robust collection of pediatric-specific Web-based competencies, numbering over 320 topics. The product is Elsevier's latest to deliver evidence based medicine electronically to help healthcare institutions improve the quality of care. "The pediatric specialty is an ever-evolving field and nurses in this under-served area understand the urgency in being equipped…

OTTAWA, February 6 /PRNewswire/ -- - Motorola to Distribute Bridgewater Systems AAA Service Controller in WiMAX Networks Bridgewater Systems (TSX: BWC) today announced that Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) will incorporate and distribute the Bridgewater Systems(TM) AAA Service Controller as a key component in Motorola's WiMAX infrastructure solutions. As a result, Motorola customers will benefit from a best of breed network access control solution for advanced IP services. Under the terms of this agreement, Motorola will have non-exclusive global distribution rights for Bridgewater(R) products…