Tuesday, July 4, 2017
Monday, July 3, 2017
Pushing STEM Careers
From the Undefeated -
Isiah Warner’s inspirational teaching at LSU never stops pushing STEM careers
The 2016 SEC Professor of the Year holds the highest professorial rank in the LSU system
BY MAYA A. JONES
Louisiana State University (LSU) professor Isiah Warner laughed as he recounted the many hats he’s worn throughout his 25 years at the school. Warner serves as vice president for strategic initiatives, Boyd Professor (the highest professorial rank in the LSU system) and Philip W. West Professor of analytical and environmental chemistry and as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor who works to develop, apply and solve fundamental problems through research.
https://theundefeated.com/features/isiah-warner-lsu-stem-careers/
Isiah Warner’s inspirational teaching at LSU never stops pushing STEM careers
The 2016 SEC Professor of the Year holds the highest professorial rank in the LSU system
BY MAYA A. JONES
Louisiana State University (LSU) professor Isiah Warner laughed as he recounted the many hats he’s worn throughout his 25 years at the school. Warner serves as vice president for strategic initiatives, Boyd Professor (the highest professorial rank in the LSU system) and Philip W. West Professor of analytical and environmental chemistry and as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor who works to develop, apply and solve fundamental problems through research.
https://theundefeated.com/features/isiah-warner-lsu-stem-careers/
Quote
From the Huffington Post -
Justice Official Quits Over White House Conduct ‘I Would Not Tolerate Seeing In A Company’
“Trying to hold companies to standards that our current administration is not living up to was creating a cognitive dissonance that I could not overcome.”
By Mary Papenfuss
“Even as I engaged in... questioning and evaluations, on my mind were the numerous lawsuits pending against the President of the United States for everything from violations of the Constitution to conflict of interest, the ongoing investigations of potentially treasonous conducts, and the investigators and prosecutors fired for their pursuits of principles and facts,” she wrote. “Those are conducts I would not tolerate seeing in a company, yet I worked under an administration that engaged in exactly those [conducts]. I wanted no more part in it.” - Hui Chen
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hui-chen-quits-justice_us_5959be5ce4b0da2c732455c9?77p&ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
Justice Official Quits Over White House Conduct ‘I Would Not Tolerate Seeing In A Company’
“Trying to hold companies to standards that our current administration is not living up to was creating a cognitive dissonance that I could not overcome.”
By Mary Papenfuss
“Even as I engaged in... questioning and evaluations, on my mind were the numerous lawsuits pending against the President of the United States for everything from violations of the Constitution to conflict of interest, the ongoing investigations of potentially treasonous conducts, and the investigators and prosecutors fired for their pursuits of principles and facts,” she wrote. “Those are conducts I would not tolerate seeing in a company, yet I worked under an administration that engaged in exactly those [conducts]. I wanted no more part in it.” - Hui Chen
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hui-chen-quits-justice_us_5959be5ce4b0da2c732455c9?77p&ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
App Improves Memory
An excerpt from the Independent -
New brain training app improves memories of people with early-stage Dementia
'We hope to extend these findings in future studies of healthy ageing and mild Alzheimer's disease,' said George Savulich, who led the study at Cambridge University
By KATE KELLAND
A brain training computer game developed by British neuroscientists has been shown to improve the memory of patients in the very earliest stages of dementia and could help such patients avert some symptoms of cognitive decline.
Researchers who developed the “game show”-like app and tested its effects on cognition and motivation in a small trial found that patients who played the game over a period of a month had around a 40 per cent improvement in their memory scores.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/brain-training-app-dementia-early-stage-patients-people-help-memories-improve-games-show-cambridge-a7820301.html
New brain training app improves memories of people with early-stage Dementia
'We hope to extend these findings in future studies of healthy ageing and mild Alzheimer's disease,' said George Savulich, who led the study at Cambridge University
By KATE KELLAND
A brain training computer game developed by British neuroscientists has been shown to improve the memory of patients in the very earliest stages of dementia and could help such patients avert some symptoms of cognitive decline.
Researchers who developed the “game show”-like app and tested its effects on cognition and motivation in a small trial found that patients who played the game over a period of a month had around a 40 per cent improvement in their memory scores.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/brain-training-app-dementia-early-stage-patients-people-help-memories-improve-games-show-cambridge-a7820301.html
The World is Watching
From Axios AM Newsletter -
How they see us ... The wrestling tweet was at the top of the front pages of the Financial Times and The Times of London (which said that in the video, Trump "attacked a person with a superimposed CNN logo on their head"). The BBC's Katty Kay said on "Morning Joe' that it '"looks like America has gone off the reservation."
https://www.axios.com/axios-am/
How they see us ... The wrestling tweet was at the top of the front pages of the Financial Times and The Times of London (which said that in the video, Trump "attacked a person with a superimposed CNN logo on their head"). The BBC's Katty Kay said on "Morning Joe' that it '"looks like America has gone off the reservation."
https://www.axios.com/axios-am/
Sunday, July 2, 2017
Saturday, July 1, 2017
Healing With Fish Skins
An excerpt from Bloomberg Businessweek -
Fish Skin for Human Wounds: Iceland’s Pioneering Treatment
The FDA-approved skin substitute reduces inflammation and transforms chronic wounds into acute injuries.
By Lois Parshley
The materials in fish skin, particularly omega-3 fatty acids, yield natural anti-inflammatory effects that speed healing. When placed on wounds, the product, made from dried and processed fish skin, works as an extracellular matrix, a group of proteins and starches that plays a crucial role in recovery. In a healthy person, a matrix surrounds cells and binds them to tissue, generating the growth of new epidermis. But in chronic wounds, this natural structure fails to form. So like a garden trellis, the fish skin provides the body’s own cells a structure to grow around so they can form healthy tissue, gradually becoming incorporated into the closing wound.
Some six and a half million Americans suffer from chronic wounds, whether related to vascular disease, diabetes, or complications from normal procedures. The five-year survival rate is 54 percent, compared with 88 percent for breast cancer, and treatments cost more than $25 billion a year. That total is steadily rising, in part because of a graying population. But precisely because many patients suffering from such wounds tend to be old, and many are also poor, they don’t get much attention.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-06-27/fish-skin-may-be-the-answer-to-chronic-wounds
Fish Skin for Human Wounds: Iceland’s Pioneering Treatment
The FDA-approved skin substitute reduces inflammation and transforms chronic wounds into acute injuries.
By Lois Parshley
The materials in fish skin, particularly omega-3 fatty acids, yield natural anti-inflammatory effects that speed healing. When placed on wounds, the product, made from dried and processed fish skin, works as an extracellular matrix, a group of proteins and starches that plays a crucial role in recovery. In a healthy person, a matrix surrounds cells and binds them to tissue, generating the growth of new epidermis. But in chronic wounds, this natural structure fails to form. So like a garden trellis, the fish skin provides the body’s own cells a structure to grow around so they can form healthy tissue, gradually becoming incorporated into the closing wound.
Some six and a half million Americans suffer from chronic wounds, whether related to vascular disease, diabetes, or complications from normal procedures. The five-year survival rate is 54 percent, compared with 88 percent for breast cancer, and treatments cost more than $25 billion a year. That total is steadily rising, in part because of a graying population. But precisely because many patients suffering from such wounds tend to be old, and many are also poor, they don’t get much attention.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-06-27/fish-skin-may-be-the-answer-to-chronic-wounds
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