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Obesity Was Rising as Ghana Embraced Fast Food. Then Came KFC.

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10/02/2017

... Embraced Fast Food. Then Came KFC. After finishing high school a decade ago, Daniel Awaitey enrolled in computer ... birthday in late July. His boss and co-workers joined him for an evening of laughter and...

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Food Systems

Advisers on Black, Latino, and Asian Students Say Trump Admin. Ignoring Them

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10/02/2017

... commissions designed to expand educational opportunities for non-white students are set to expire Saturday and members ... advisory commissions on educational excellence for black, Hispanic, and Asian American...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Funded Studies Make Progress In Fight Against Malaria

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10/05/2017

... mosquito resistance to the parasite would reduce the need for repeated, continuous use of other malaria control ... team of researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Malaria...

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Documents Show NYC’s Education Department Failed to Answer 526 Public Records Requests Over Past 3 Years

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10/05/2017

... to Answer 526 Public Records Requests Over Past 3 Years At the start of December 2014, New York Post reporter Susan ... bolster the case. Ravitch, an education progressive known for her scathing opposition to...

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City to Expand 3-K Program to 6 New Neighborhoods

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10/13/2017

... announced plans to expand its pre-K education program for 3-year-olds in six new neighborhoods over the next three ... East Harlem and District 7, in Queens, for the 2018-2019 school year. In...

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Research Funded By The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Leads To Passwords In Clothing

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11/02/2017

... led by UW’s Shyam Gollakota has demonstrated a method for encoding digital data, including ID tags and security ... experiment was presented last week in Quebec City at the Association for...

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Toshiba America Foundation Announces $110,000 for 11 Innovative Classroom STEM Projects

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01/16/2018

Toshiba America Foundation Announces $110,000 for 11 Innovative Classroom STEM Projects The Toshiba ... Foundation (TAF) today announced nearly $110,000 in grants for 11 innovative classroom STEM (Science,...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Supported Research Yields Promising Results for Genetic Weapons Against Malaria

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02/16/2018

... Philanthropies Supported Research Yields Promising Results for Genetic Weapons Against Malaria In separate studies, ... mosquito immune systems. Two new papers by researchers at the Malaria Research Institute...

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Ford Foundation Partners with Other Funders to Increase Educational Attainment in the Rio Grande Valley

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05/03/2018

... Texas peers in nine out of 11 key indicators – from high school graduation rates, to FAFSA financial aid and ... reflects a growing shift in educational attainment for area students. Educate Texas, an...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Funds Access to Economic Opportunity for Delaware Students

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05/03/2018

... Philanthropies Funds Access to Economic Opportunity for Delaware Students Bloomberg Philanthropies has provided a ... Pathways towards improving access to economic opportunity for Delaware students. Delaware...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Aetna Foundation President Discusses What it Will Take to Solve the Opioid Crisis

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06/29/2018

... the Opioid Crisis In 2015, our life expectancy dropped for the first time since the height of the AIDS epidemic. ... faces a unique battle, which is why we’re looking for local solutions to solve the crisis...

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Funded by The Charles H. Revson Foundation, New York Library Lends Out Ties, Briefcases, Handbags for Job Interviews

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09/24/2018

... York Library Lends Out Ties, Briefcases, Handbags for Job Interviews Most libraries around the country provide ... out the highly coveted and pricey toys for a few weeks at a time. And...

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The Samuel H. Kress Foundation Funded Study Shows Museum Field Trips Impact Learning

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09/28/2018

... grades 4 through 6, and included facilitated experiences at six art museums across the United States: Columbus Museum ... of Fine Arts, Houston; Orlando Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design Museum; and...

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Commonwealth Fund Partners with New York Times and Harvard to Analyze Financial Reality of Being Sick

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10/19/2018

... Times, the Commonwealth Fund and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health used the survey to examine the sliver ... hospitalized twice in the last two years, and to have seen at least three doctors. In...

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Simons Foundation-Funded Research Reveals That Bacteria in Giant Aquarium Mirror Natural Ocean Microbes

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11/07/2018

... and nitrates. Good bacteria break down nitrogen compounds at aquariums, and the new study shows that some bacterial ... Frank Stewart, an associate professor in Georgia Tech’s School of Biological Sciences and...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Research Funded by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Offers New, Solar-Powered Technology that Collects and Cleans Water from Air

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03/18/2019

... challenges facing humankind. A breakthrough by engineers at The University of Texas at Austin may offer a new solution through solar-powered ... A research team led by Guihua Yu in UT Austin's Cockrell...

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