Humanities

™PAW Patrol: Adventure Play Helps Save The Day at The Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation

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Tuesday, January 9, 2024
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DEARBORN, Mich., Jan. 9, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Kids and families can now play and save the day with the heroic PAW Patrol pups, at the brand-new PAW Patrol: Adventure Play exhibit, open to the public February 17, 2024, at the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation.

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  • DEARBORN, Mich., Jan. 9, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Kids and families can now play and save the day with the heroic PAW Patrol pups, at the brand-new PAW Patrol: Adventure Play exhibit, open to the public February 17, 2024, at the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation.
  • The hands-on, immersive PAW Patrol: Adventure Play exhibit is a fun way for the whole family to learn bravery and heroism, with exciting stories.
  • The whole family will learn how to combine their skills to problem-solve together and save the day.
  • PAW Patrol: Adventure Play was produced by The Children's Museum of Indianapolis in partnership with Nickelodeon.

Year 9 is often seen as the 'lost year'. Here's what schools are trying to keep kids engaged

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Monday, January 8, 2024
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Whatever the reason, many high school teachers say something significant happens to school engagement levels around Year 9.

Key Points: 
  • Whatever the reason, many high school teachers say something significant happens to school engagement levels around Year 9.
  • Read more:
    20% of Australian students don't finish high school: non-mainstream schools have a lot to teach us about helping kids stay

Lost, disengaged and ‘in never-never land’

  • One Year 9 teacher told me students at this age see themselves
    as that in-between stage.
  • What if I’m neither?’ Students at this age often strongly feel they no longer fit in.
  • Year 9 teachers described this year to me as “the lost year”, where students often drift off to “never-never land”.
  • This suggests an opportunity for schools to design their Year 9 curriculum to help these students see the relevance of school.

Specialist Year 9 programs

  • Some schools have implemented specialist programs for Year 9.
  • Some have large-scale residential programs, where students live and learn away from home for extended periods.
  • Other programs focus on students learning about and through their local communities.
  • Other programs are conducted entirely offsite over the course of a term.

A different approach

  • In the Renewal program, the careers unit and mock job interviews are done at the start of the year to support students to get part-time employment.
  • Students are given more agency than a traditional approach would allow.
  • School work might be done, for example, via essay-writing, painting, drawing, in the form of a radio interview or other formats.
  • The kids have more opportunity in regards to choosing their own destination […] to be able to find their own learning.

Resonating with students’ lives

  • The success of Year 9 programs hinges on a tailored curriculum that resonates with students’ lives, taught by teachers dedicated to fostering strong connections.
  • Read more:
    'I would like to go to university': flexi school students share their goals in Australia-first survey


Josh Ambrosy is on the board of Outdoors Victoria, the state not-for-profit peak body. He runs professional development sessions related to Year 9 programs and other middle years curricula.

Literature inspired my medical career: Why the humanities are needed in health care

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Friday, January 5, 2024
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As a published poet and scholar of the health humanities and ethics, I have a foot squarely planted in each field – or perhaps more accurately, I stand in what I perceive as the overlapping field of healing and poetic practices.

Key Points: 
  • As a published poet and scholar of the health humanities and ethics, I have a foot squarely planted in each field – or perhaps more accurately, I stand in what I perceive as the overlapping field of healing and poetic practices.
  • I think literature can do this for other health care providers, too.

Narrative competence in medicine

  • Narrative medicine is the practice of close reading and reflective writing to build narrative competence.
  • Physician and narrative medicine scholar Rita Charon describes narrative competence as “the ability to acknowledge, absorb, interpret and act on the stories and plights of others.” Narrative competence, then, could inspire a person to pursue a career in health care and possibly make them a better clinician.
  • In fact, studies of narrative medicine programs have demonstrated that they tend to not only increase students’ empathy and communication skills but also their tolerance for ambiguity and self-confidence.

Using the humanities to address health inequity

  • Might narrative competence also expand clinicians’ understanding of health disparities and urge them to act in ways that lectures full of statistics couldn’t?
  • The burgeoning field of critical health humanities theorizes that stories and art can help clinicians understand the unequal realities of different people’s lives and make clinician-patient relationships more therapeutic.
  • This could lead her to make her practice more accessible to her patients – an action that would improve equity in health care for people with disabilities.
  • Before ever meeting my first patient, I gained an expanded knowledge of the diversity of human experience from the books I read.
  • This negates the fact that disease and health happen in varied and disparate social, cultural and political contexts.

Fitting in health humanities education

  • There are ways to fit in more health humanities in all the busyness and bustle of notoriously grueling medical education.
  • I’ve also led other health care providers in creative writing exercises during workshops, lectures and classes.
  • Many institutions host book clubs, story slams, film screenings and other opportunities for medical learners to engage with the humanities.
  • Monica Sok’s “ABC for Refugees” powerfully paints a portrait of a young child caught between languages and cultures – a reality that many pediatric patients face.
  • “Ode to Small Towns” by Tyree Daye upends common assumptions about rural life and demonstrates the meaning of place in hymnlike vernacular.
  • This article is part of Art & Science Collide, a series examining the intersections between art and science.

Melding literature and medicine

  • The possibilities for collaboration between literature and medicine are wide open.
  • The history, sociopolitical context, imaginative perspective and reflective practices the humanities offer may improve the practice of medicine.


Irène Mathieu, MD, MPH is an iTHRIV Scholar. The iTHRIV Scholars Program is supported in part by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under award numbers UL1TR003015 and KL2TR003016.

Coast redwood trees are enduring, adaptable marvels in a warming world

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Wednesday, January 3, 2024
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Most of them grow from southern Oregon down into northern California, snugged up against the rugged Pacific coast.

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  • Most of them grow from southern Oregon down into northern California, snugged up against the rugged Pacific coast.
  • Redwoods, like all trees, are engineered marvels.
  • They even have two kinds of leaves that help the trees adapt to both wet and dry conditions.
  • Researchers and horticulturists at the botanical gardens are thinking about trees, and how to integrate them into larger landscapes, in new ways.

Redwood communities

  • A structure or building typically is a sort of island unto itself, separate from its neighbors; in contrast, the coast redwood is an ecosystem with enormously broad consequences for other life forms.
  • Some of these life forms rely on the tree; others on occupants in and around the tree.
  • The coast redwood hosts so many different ecological interactions that it’s faintly ridiculous.
  • Nestled into extensive mats of ferns that grow high up in redwood canopies, researchers find aquatic crustaceans called copepods that normally would live in larger bodies of water.

Enduring but not static

  • Even species as enduring as coast redwoods are affected by climate change.
  • New fire dangers put them at risk, and more frequent floods erode the big trees’ footing.
  • Since these trees are so networked and interconnected, the sum is greater than its parts and isn’t easy to quantify.

New territory

  • I’ve resisted giving names to this duo, although many giant redwoods have monikers like Adventure, Brutus, Nugget, Paradox and Atlas – most named by the scientists who first quantified their extreme heights.
  • The redwoods outside my window are perhaps 100 feet tall – puny by comparison to their northern brethren.


Daniel Lewis does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

United States Mint Begins Shipping 2024 American Women Quarters™ Honoring Reverend Dr. Pauli Murray on January 2

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Tuesday, December 26, 2023
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Washington, DC, Dec. 26, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The United States Mint (Mint) will begin shipping the first coin in the 2024 American Women Quarters™ (AWQ) Program on January 2.

Key Points: 
  • Washington, DC, Dec. 26, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The United States Mint (Mint) will begin shipping the first coin in the 2024 American Women Quarters™ (AWQ) Program on January 2.
  • The Mint facilities at Philadelphia and Denver are manufacturing these circulating quarters honoring Reverend Dr. Pauli Murray.
  • Reverend Dr. Pauli Murray is regarded as one of the most important social justice advocates of the 20th century.
  • “The first coin of the 2024 American Women Quarters™ Program honors the life and legacy of Reverend Dr. Pauli Murray,” said Mint Director Ventris C. Gibson.

University of Manchester Taps Matterport Digital Twins to Transform Onboarding for Students in the Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama

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Tuesday, December 5, 2023
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The university found that for students, the digital twin helped them familiarize with the space and ease apprehension.

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  • The university found that for students, the digital twin helped them familiarize with the space and ease apprehension.
  • "This scan and quiz has been invaluable," said Alexander Gagatsis, Director of Performance at the Department of Music, University of Manchester.
  • “It’s been incredible to hear the positive feedback from both faculty and students about the convenience and accessibility Matterport has provided to the Martin Harris Centre,” said Natalie Lamb, Managing Director, International, Matterport.
  • To learn more about how the University of Manchester is applying digital twins to its curriculum, you can read the full case study , or access the MHC Virtual Induction here .

Opening Ceremony of The 11th Shenzhen International Industrial Design Fair 2023

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Friday, November 24, 2023
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Shenzhen, China, Nov. 24, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Hosted by Shenzhen Municipal People’s Government, organized by Industry and Information Technology Bureau of Shenzhen Municipality, undertaken by Shenzhen Industrial Design Profession Association (SIDA), the 11th Shenzhen International Industrial Design Fair (“the Fair”) started in the afternoon of 23rd November at Hall 2 of the Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Centre.

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  • Shenzhen, China, Nov. 24, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Hosted by Shenzhen Municipal People’s Government, organized by Industry and Information Technology Bureau of Shenzhen Municipality, undertaken by Shenzhen Industrial Design Profession Association (SIDA), the 11th Shenzhen International Industrial Design Fair (“the Fair”) started in the afternoon of 23rd November at Hall 2 of the Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Centre.
  • With the theme of “Design Reboot: Symbiosis”, Shenzhen International Industrial Design Fair 2023 will be held for four days from 23rd to 26th November.
  • Shenzhen International Industrial Design Fair has been successfully hosted for ten years, exploring and making efforts in many fields with a comprehensive way, such as talents, funds, industrial policies, international cooperation, design education, bring top-notch international design concepts and products to Shenzhen, creating.
  • There are 14 national-level industrial design centers, 123 provincial-level industrial design centers, and 102 municipal-level industrial design centers that have been established.

Element Announces Board Appointment of Kathleen Taylor, Who Will Assume Role of Chair following 2024 AGM

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Tuesday, November 21, 2023
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She will succeed the Company’s current Board Chair, David Denison, who will retire from the Board at the Meeting after completing his five-year term as Chair.

Key Points: 
  • She will succeed the Company’s current Board Chair, David Denison, who will retire from the Board at the Meeting after completing his five-year term as Chair.
  • She is also Vice Chair of the Adecco Group AG, and a director of Air Canada and Mattamy Asset Management.
  • Ms. Taylor recently concluded her tenure as a director and chair of the Board of the Royal Bank of Canada and as a director of CPP Investments.
  • Taylor brings a wealth of C-suite leadership and board experience gained from her time at a number of prominent organizations.

James M. Glaser Named Executive Vice President and Provost at Santa Clara University

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Wednesday, December 20, 2023
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Santa Clara University President Julie Sullivan today announced the appointment of James M. Glaser as executive vice president and provost at the University.

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  • Santa Clara University President Julie Sullivan today announced the appointment of James M. Glaser as executive vice president and provost at the University.
  • Glaser is currently dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Tufts University, a position he has held since 2014.
  • At Santa Clara University, Glaser will oversee a broad portfolio including the College and all the schools, two centers of distinction, libraries, academic support programs, student life and wellness programs, global engagement, and enrollment management.
  • He is also an avid tennis player, and hopes to find partners in the Santa Clara community.

Oxbridge Notes Invites New Authors to Join Its Expanding Marketplace as Part of Its 15th Anniversary Celebration

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Thursday, December 28, 2023
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LONDON, Dec. 28, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Oxbridge Notes, a leading provider of educational resources, celebrates its 15th anniversary with an invitation for new student authors to sell notes on our growing marketplace. As we have expanded our offerings to encompass a wide range of academic disciplines, we are actively seeking fresh, knowledgeable voices to contribute and earn money selling notes.

Key Points: 
  • LONDON, Dec. 28, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Oxbridge Notes , a leading provider of educational resources, celebrates its 15th anniversary with an invitation for new student authors to sell notes on our growing marketplace.
  • Initially renowned for our expertise in legal education resources, Oxbridge Notes has expanded to cater to a broader academic audience, offering concise, detailed study notes, and other valuable study materials across various majors.
  • A Call for New Authors: Sell Your Notes with Oxbridge Notes
    We are reaching out to students, graduates, and academics across the world to sell their notes through our platform.
  • Oxbridge Notes is more than just a resource for legal studies; it's a comprehensive platform for academic excellence in various subjects.