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JPB Foundation Funded Study Shows More Than Half Of US Children Will Be Obese By 35

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11/30/2017

... Half Of US Children Will Be Obese By 35 If current trends in child obesity continue, more than 57% of today’s ... Ward, programmer/analyst at Harvard Chan School’s Center for Health Decision Science and lead...

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Supported by The Mayday Fund, Scientists Take a Big Step Toward Building a Better Opioid

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01/09/2018

... Scientists Take a Big Step Toward Building a Better Opioid For the first time, scientists at the University of North ... compound that activates only that receptor, a key step in the development of new pain...

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Simons Foundation Funded Research Finds That Neural ‘Tug-Of-War’ May Explain Fragile X Learning Issues

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01/24/2018

... and autism. “These findings suggest that neural circuits in FXS may be fundamentally intact but improperly tuned, ... says André Fenton, a professor in the Center for Neural Science at New...

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New Report Funded by JPB Foundation says u.S. Cities Can save Billions with Green, Resilient Design

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02/08/2018

... Resilient Design Sustainability has become a buzzword for urban designers and environmental advocates. A new report ... yesterday stresses that making it a de facto policy for U.S. cities would be a cost-...

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Research Funded By Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Leads to a Method to Safely Charge a Smartphone Wirelessly Using a Laser

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02/21/2018

... outlet. But engineers at the University of Washington have for the first time developed a method to safely charge a smartphone wirelessly using a laser. As the team reports in a paper published online ...

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Technology

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Ford, Hilton Foundation, and JPB Foundation Join others in Collaborative Fund to Address Housing Instability

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02/23/2018

Ford, Hilton Foundation, and JPB Foundation Join others in Collaborative Fund to Address Housing Instability ... that stable homes provide an important platform for individual success and thriving communities,...

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Housing and Homelessness

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New York State Health Foundation Funded Study Finds Most NY Health Providers Are Not Ready to Care for Veterans

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03/01/2018

... Study Finds Most NY Health Providers Are Not Ready to Care for Veterans Only about 2 percent of the physicians and other health care providers in New York State are equipped to provide timely and quality .....

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Funds New Research on the Energy and Environmental Implications of the Digital Economy

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04/18/2018

... of the Digital Economy The Environmental Law Institute , in partnership with the Center for Law, Energy & the Environment at UC Berkeley and the ... project focused on the implications of the digital...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and National Science Foundation Fund Creation of Battery-Free HD Video Streaming Technology

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04/27/2018

... video streaming method that doesn’t need to be plugged in . Their prototype skips the power-hungry parts and has ... have made so far is that backscatter can be used only for low-data rate sensors such as...

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App Developed at UVA Improving HIV Care, Finds Study Supported By The MAC AIDS Fund

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06/12/2018

... MAC AIDS Fund A smartphone app designed to improve care for people living with HIV has increased users’ consistency in doctor visits and improved their health outcomes, a new ... with “undetectable HIV viral...

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Report Funded by Stavros Niarchos Foundation Shows Many Aging NYC Parks Have Infrastructure Problems

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06/26/2018

... playgrounds, and other recreational facilities. They vary in shape and size—as well as intended uses—but these spots are an invaluable resource for New Yorkers . But parks require maintenance and ... by the...

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Study Funded by The Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation Shows No Early Dementia in 21 Past NHL, NFL Players

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08/09/2018

... Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation Shows No Early Dementia in 21 Past NHL, NFL Players In a new study, researchers found no evidence of early onset dementia in a small sample of retired...

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Zegar Family Foundation Funded Research Shows Urgent Need To Prepare Next Generation of Farmers for Climate Change

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09/10/2018

... Shows Urgent Need To Prepare Next Generation of Farmers for Climate Change Many of the world's future farmers will ... the fastest growing food sector. New research shows that in order for...

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Research Funded by Zegar Family Foundation Finds New Genetic Interdependence Between Mothers and Their Offspring

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10/03/2018

... development help explain patterns of animal development in nature and across the evolutionary tree. Its findings ... itself," explains Matthew Rockman, an associate professor in New York University's...

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Simons and Alfred P. Sloan Foundations Fund Study That Reveals How the Brain Overcomes Its Own Limitations

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10/24/2018

... Imagine trying to write your name so that it can be read in a mirror. Your brain has all of the visual information you ... writing your own name. Still, this task is very difficult for most people. That’s...

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New York State Health Foundation-Funded Research Aims to Reduce Gun Violence in Rochester, New York

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11/06/2018

... Foundation-Funded Research Aims to Reduce Gun Violence in Rochester, New York Rochester Institute of Technology is ... from the New York State Health Foundation, RIT’s Center for Public Safety Initiatives...

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Research Funded by Leon Levy Foundation Finds Climate Change Is Leading to Unpredictable Ecosystem Disruption for Migratory Birds

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03/06/2019

... Change Is Leading to Unpredictable Ecosystem Disruption for Migratory Birds Ithaca, NY–Using data on 77 North ... scientists at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology say that, in as little as four decades, it may be...

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Pursuit Bonds, Funded by Inherent Foundation, Helps Provide Workforce Training for Disadvantaged New Yorkers

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03/15/2019

... by Inherent Foundation, Helps Provide Workforce Training for Disadvantaged New Yorkers Jukay Hsu is an enthusiastic ... backer. He wanted the company to build a big new campus in New York and participated...

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Funding From the Leon Levy Foundation Finds That Artificial Light Makes Birds Fly Into Buildings at Night

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04/05/2019

Funding From the Leon Levy Foundation Finds That Artificial ... record of more than 70,000 nighttime songbird collisions in Chicago and Cleveland suggests that birds disoriented by ... authors. “Our results...

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Animal Welfare