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Mellon Grant Helps University Advance Racial Justice Recommendation

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02/22/2017

... The five-year Mellon grant will assist the university in establishing a center for racial justice, hiring faculty experts in the field, supporting postdoctoral and graduate fellows ... The grant comes after...

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Social Justice

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Open Society Foundations Supports Climate Change Glossary

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03/01/2017

... weather, or moan about the fumes belched from the vehicles in our cities, climate change still feels a distant problem. ... with the Open Society Foundations to help the media better report on (and for all of...

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Foundation for Child Development Sponsors Study that Finds Children Learning English Require Better Support for Academic Success

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03/01/2017

... -- who account for more than 9 percent of K-12 enrollment in the U.S. -- lag behind their English-speaking monolingual peers in educational achievement, in part because schools do not .....

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Tiffany & Co. Foundation Funds Study on Corals; Some Corals Are Adapting To Warming Climate

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05/03/2017

... adapting to warming ocean waters - potentially good news in the face of recent reports of global coral die offs due to extreme warm temperatures in 2016. The study appears in the latest issue...

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W.T. Grant Funds Research on How Technology Use Affects At-Risk Youth

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05/03/2017

... Youth More use of technology is linked to later increases in attention, behavior and self-regulation problems for ... time using digital technologies they were less likely to report symptoms of depression and...

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Tiffany & Co. Makes Its Point: Presidents Come and Go, But Climate Change is Forever

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05/11/2017

... American jeweler issued a terse but vehement pitch in favor of the Paris climate agreement, addressed directly ...

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The Tiffany & Co. Foundation

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Russell Sage Research Examines Social Consequences of Recessions

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05/26/2017

... Foundation shows, generated a great deal of sadness. In 2010, one year after the official end of the recession, ... since researchers first started recording the measure in the mid-1970s. This shouldn’t be too...

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Economic Security

Commonwealth Fund: CBO Score on Senate Health Bill: 22M Americans Uninsured & Sharp Increases in Premiums for Elderly

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07/03/2017

... Health Bill: 22M Americans Uninsured & Sharp Increases in Premiums for Elderly This week the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its report on the impact of the Better Care Reconciliation Act .....

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With Support from Research to Prevent Blindness, Researchers at UIC Identify Master Molecule Behind Corneal Inflammation

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07/12/2017

... to be present, and these cells travel throughout the body in blood. Now, researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have identified an enzyme present in the cornea that becomes dramatically...

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Closing a Racial Divide, One Swim Lesson at a Time

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08/28/2017

... during her swim lesson at Roberto Clemente State Park in the Bronx one recent Tuesday morning, Kiara García, now ... children are finding their way into the water. And in New York City, they are helped...

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Winning the Lottery: Enrolling in Success Academy Produces Math Gains for Students, New Study Shows

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08/30/2017

Winning the Lottery: Enrolling in Success Academy Produces Math Gains for Students, New Study Shows Enrolling in Success Academy boosted test scores for some of its ... schools,” said Rebecca Unterman, the author...

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New York City March Held Ahead of President Trump's DACA Decision

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08/31/2017

... of President Trump's DACA Decision Thousands are marching in New York City Wednesday to defend DACA following reports ... the end to protections for 800,000 young immigrants in the United States...

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Immigration

Carmen Fariña Promises to Improve Classroom Diversity By Rezoning Schools

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08/31/2017

... segregation with school rezonings across the city in the upcoming school year. Speaking with reporters ... classroom diversity by rezoning schools, as she did in Manhattan District 3, in...

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F.D.A. Cracks Down on ‘Unscrupulous’ Stem Cell Clinics

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08/31/2017

... for companies and doctors with legitimate treatments in the growing field. The agency reported actions against two ... it was critical to shut down “unscrupulous actors” in regenerative medicine, a broad...

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Health

Climate-Smart Agriculture Urgently Needed in Africa

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09/05/2017

Climate-Smart Agriculture Urgently Needed in Africa Africa contributes only 4 per cent of global ... of the 10 most affected countries by climate change are in Africa, warns a major agricultural research for .....

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A Helpful Tool to Combat the Opioid Crisis

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09/11/2017

... drug monitoring programs, an approach highlighted in the draft report from President Trump’s Commission on Combating Drug ...

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Mayor's Affordable Housing Not Helping People Who Need it Most, Study Says

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09/18/2017

... more than 77,650 units of “affordable” housing in the past four years as it works toward its 200,000-unit ... is 30 percent of the Area Median Income), according to a report released Thursday by the Real...

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Housing and Homelessness

Experts Recommend Baseline Concussion Tests for Student Athletes

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09/19/2017

... West got a concussion playing football his freshman year in High School. "I went to go make a tackle and I had a head .....

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The Holocaust Museum Sought Lessons on Syria. What It Got Was a Political Backlash.

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09/20/2017

... United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is finding itself in an unfamiliar position: as a lightning rod for the fierce debate over the Obama administration’s role in the Syrian civil war. The museum is facing...

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