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September 12, 2018
91探花Mobility Innovation Center releases report on innovation frameworks for smart cities
The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) recently partnered with the Mobility Innovation Center at 91探花CoMotion to study six US cities that have been experimenting with innovative approaches to transportation management. The resulting report, 鈥淚nnovation Frameworks for Smart Cities,鈥� reveals how these cities have solicited new ideas, built outcome- and equity-oriented programs and enacted change…
September 5, 2018
First-year Interest Groups add concept of population health to core curriculum
The Population Health Initiative has partnered with the 91探花鈥檚 First Year Programs to introduce the concept of population health to the approximately 3,000 incoming freshmen and transfer students who join a First-year Interest Group (FIG). FIGs are peer-guided clusters of courses that small groups of students take together during their first quarter at…
August 29, 2018
Recognizing community-engaged research in promotion and tenure guidelines
The Population Health Initiative seeks to bring the university community and partners together in more interdisciplinary and collaborative ways to improve the health of people here and around the world. A potential barrier to realizing this goal is the appearance of inconsistent criteria in recognizing interdisciplinary and collaborative research, teaching, public scholarship, mentoring and community…
August 27, 2018
New IHME study finds health risks for any level of alcohol consumption
A new scientific study from the 91探花’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation concludes there is no safe level of drinking alcohol. This conclusion is due to the study team’s findings of clear and convincing correlations between drinking and premature death, cancer and cardiovascular problems. The study, which is part of the annual…
August 22, 2018
91探花researchers聽support a floating community in the Amazon
An interdisciplinary team of researchers is working to improve the health and living conditions of an impoverished floating community in the Peruvian Amazon by drawing on the expertise of researchers from six different 91探花 departments. From cleaning contaminated water to improving food security, the researchers are implementing innovative interventions to enhance both the…
August 16, 2018
NTU Rankings places the 91探花fourth among U.S. higher education institutions
The latest NTU rankings place the 91探花 fourth among U.S. institutions of higher education. This ranking is compiled by National Taiwan University and is also known as the 鈥淧erformance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities.鈥� It offers annual performance rankings of universities around the world based on their production and impact of…
August 14, 2018
Seven new members named to initiative executive council
Five new faculty and two students have been named to the 30-member Population Health Initiative executive council by President Ana Mari Cauce. They are: Nidhi Agrawal, professor of marketing, Foster School of Business Wendy Barrington, assistant professor of psychosocial and community health, School of Nursing, adjunct assistant professor of epidemiology and health services, and faculty…
August 9, 2018
91探花Dentistry remains No. 3 in global research rankings
The 91探花 School of Dentistry retained its No. 3 global and U.S. ranking in the 2018 Academic Ranking of World Universities聽by the ShanghaiRanking Consultancy. The rankings are weighted toward research performance and reputation, and place the school behind only the dental schools of the University of Michigan and the University of North Carolina….
August 7, 2018
Department of Emergency Medicine launches new section dedicated to population health
The 91探花’s Department of Emergency Medicine publicly announced the establishment of a new Section of Population Health on August 6. The focus of this section will be to make advancements in research, education and public policy to better address inequities in underserved populations in both local and global settings. The section’s focus will…
August 2, 2018
Higher concentrations of carbon dioxide may reduce protein and multiple key nutrients in rice
New research shows聽for the first time that rice grown at the concentrations of atmospheric CO2 expected by the end of this century has lower levels of four key B vitamins. The research’s findings also support research from other studies showing that rice grown under higher CO2 concentrations has less protein, iron and zinc. Decreases in…
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