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Opinion: Does a Soda Tax Reduce Obesity? Ask Mexico (Bloomberg Philanthropies)

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02/23/2016

Mexico has become the most obese country in the world. In a purported effort to combat the problem, the country implemented a one-peso-per-liter excise tax on sugar-sweetened beverages in January 2014.

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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

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New Biomarker Identifies Uveal Melanoma Patients At High Risk For Metastasis (Research To Prevent Blindness)

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03/07/2016

New study published in Clinical Cancer Research details the discovery of a biomarker that puts patients at a higher risk for metastasis of uveal melanoma.

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Science

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Century Foundation Fellow on Legacy Admissions Begetting Educational Inequality

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07/29/2016

... legacy status in admissions decisions. Plus, empirical studies show that, when controlling for family wealth, there ...

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Fund for the City of New York Supports Conceptualization of Underground Maps and Models

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02/15/2017

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is requesting information from interested parties to inform a Concept Development Study (CDS) that will assess the current state and future direction of information standards for modelling, mapping, and managing...

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With Support from the Wenner-Gren Foundation, Fossil Hunters Discover New Primate Species

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02/28/2017

Fossil hunters have found part of an ancient primate jawbone related to lemurs — the primitive primate group distantly connected to monkeys, apes and humans, a USC researcher said

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The Wenner-Gren Foundation

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Grant Supported Research: Self-Affirmation Intervention with Existing Institutional Channels Leads To Academic Success for Minority Students

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06/28/2017

William T. Grant Foundation supported research at Stanford which found African-American and Latino students who completed self-affirming writing exercises in middle school took more challenging courses and were more likely to enroll in college,...

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William T. Grant Foundation

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Simons Foundation's Flatiron Institute Joins IBM and Others including Citizens in the Microbiome Immunity Project

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08/23/2017

The general public's help is being enlisted in what's thought to be the biggest study of the human microbiome—the bacteria that live in and on the human body –and are believed to affect health.

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Wellcome Trust and the Simons Foundation Fund Researchers Uniting to Create International Brain Lab

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09/19/2017

Leading neuroscientists are joining forces to study the brain -- The International Brain Lab (IBL), launched on September 19, combines 21 of the foremost neuroscience laboratories in the United States and Europe into a giant collaboration that will...

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Science

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The Commonwealth Fund Supports Tool to Encourage Patient Contribution to Clinical Notes

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12/08/2017

Funded by The Commonwealth Fund, OurNotes is an extension of the nationwide OpenNotes, a movement to offer patients ready, online access to their clinicians’ visit notes. Currently, more than 20 million patients across the country have electronic...

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

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01/16/2018

... quality analysis equipment to use with the Environmental Studies students to conduct scientifically valid field studies . They will also monitor two new organic landscapes ...

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Helmsley Charitable Trust and Partners Announce Funding of Quantitative Analysis of Insulin Purchased from Pharmacies in the U.S.

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10/11/2018

JDRF International, the American Diabetes Association (ADA) and The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust (Helmsley) together announce the awarding of funding to the University of Florida for a one-year investigation by Dr. Timothy Garrett...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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Open Society Names Alethia E. Jones New Head of Fellowship Program

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12/05/2018

... rights. In addition, she has taught comparative urban studies in Brazil, South Africa, and Vietnam. She directed ... in the policy, political science, and women’s studies departments. She is co-editor of Ain’t...

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Stavros Niarchos Foundation Awards $3.9 Million to Oxford University

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05/12/2019

... and expansion of its Late Antique and Byzantine studies program. The gift will endow the Bywater and Sotheby ... excellence in Late Antique, Byzantine, and post-Byzantine studies , including funding for a new...

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