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South Africa is short of academic statisticians: why and what can be done

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Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Psychometrics, Data science, Biostatistics, Collaboration, Research, Policy, Doctor of Philosophy, Mentorship, Student, Statistics, Mathematics, Social, Commerce, Lecture, Engineering, Management

463 exabytes of data will be created each day globally – that’s the equivalent of 212,765,957 DVDs per day.

Key Points: 
  • 463 exabytes of data will be created each day globally – that’s the equivalent of 212,765,957 DVDs per day.
  • We are a group of academic statisticians from South African universities who have compiled a discussion paper to address these issues.
  • We have identified the factors contributing to the capacity crisis in academic statistics, including a lack of collaboration between academics in different academic statistical fields.
  • We’ve also proposed a way to improve both the quality and quantity of, primarily, doctoral candidates in the various statistical fields.

What’s in a name?

  • Over the years, a divide has emerged between those who research and lecture in applied statistics and their counterparts in mathematical or theoretical statistics.
  • Statistics departments are positioned within different faculties across various
    South African universities, for example within commerce, natural science, or engineering.
  • A doctoral candidate focused on econometrics may not realise that a biostatistician is well equipped to support and mentor them.

Assessment

  • There may be concerns that standardising assessment for what is essentially creative output (novel, innovative ideas) may be too prescriptive.
  • However, we believe that a semi-flexible assessment rubric is vital.
  • An assessment rubric is an important tool for formative assessment.

Supervisor-student relationship

  • The relationship a PhD candidate has with their supervisor is enormously important, as research from across disciplines has shown.
  • Without sufficient mentoring, early-career supervisors may not know how to nurture a healthy supervisor-student relationship.
  • They may not be aware of all of the intricacies inherent in this relationship, let alone the skills that they should be imparting to their students.

Next steps

  • To our knowledge, it is the first of its kind in the field of academic statistics.
  • Some new supervisors may use the entire guiding rubric to assist in each important area.


The authors do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and have disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

New York Film Academy Partners with Anica Academy to Give Master Class in Producing

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Wednesday, March 27, 2024
Online, Innovation, BAFTA, Q&A, International Emmy Awards, News, TLC, NYFA, Anica, Faculty, Student, Skin, Catalog, Lecture, Marketing, Atom Egoyan, Television, European Film Awards, Film industry

New York, NY, March 27, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- In the first week of March 2024, the New York Film Academy (NYFA) Chair of the Producing Department of its New York City campus , Neal Weisman, in collaboration with Anica Academy , conducted a master class in producing.

Key Points: 
  • New York, NY, March 27, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- In the first week of March 2024, the New York Film Academy (NYFA) Chair of the Producing Department of its New York City campus , Neal Weisman, in collaboration with Anica Academy , conducted a master class in producing.
  • We were very happy to host the master class ‘The Role of the Producer between the United States and Italy’ as a second appointment in 2024.
  • “This Master Class was particularly exciting because it explained the difference between the Italian and American film markets.
  • We look forward to continuing the conversation and further collaborations,” says Neal Weisman, Chair of the Producing Department of the New York City campus.

Matinas BioPharma Announces Positive in vivo Safety Data with its Oral LNC-Docetaxel Formulation

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Monday, March 25, 2024
Toxicity, Therapeutic index, Conference, Human, Docetaxel, Webcast, Weight loss, LNC, Neoplasm, Mouse, Calendar, Melanoma, Lecture, Pharmaceutical industry

BEDMINSTER, N.J., March 25, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Matinas BioPharma Holdings, Inc. (NYSE American: MTNB), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on delivering groundbreaking therapies using its lipid nanocrystal (LNC) platform technology, announces positive results from an additional in vivo study in healthy mice with an oral LNC formulation of docetaxel, a well-established chemotherapeutic agent used in the management of multiple metastatic and unresectable tumors. Docetaxel is currently only administered intravenously and is frequently associated with significant side effects and treatment-limiting toxicities.

Key Points: 
  • "These recent data show how our oral LNC-docetaxel formulation can dramatically reduce the well-recognized toxicity of IV-docetaxel, as primarily manifested by weight loss in this model,” said James J. Ferguson, M.D., Chief Medical Officer of Matinas .
  • We have now corroborated this lack of toxicity in a more comprehensive safety study with a longer treatment duration and even higher doses of oral LNC-docetaxel.
  • Mice treated with oral LNC-docetaxel maintained their body weight, which was statistically no different than the weight of control mice treated with oral saline.
  • The webcast will be available on the IR Calendar page of the Matinas website and will be archived for six months.

THE COLLEGE FOR CREATIVE STUDIES ANNOUNCES FIRST WEEK-LONG ENTERTAINMENT ARTS AND ILLUSTRATION INDUSTRY IMMERSION EVENT

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Wednesday, March 13, 2024
Immersion, Education, Illustration, Lecture, Publishing, 3D, Motion, Software, CCS, Toyota, Student, Warner Bros., Animation, Economic methodology, Curriculum, Blizzard Entertainment, Video game

Detroit, Michigan, March 13, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The College for Creative Studies (CCS) is pleased to announce the first Industry EXPOsion week-long immersion event.

Key Points: 
  • Detroit, Michigan, March 13, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The College for Creative Studies (CCS) is pleased to announce the first Industry EXPOsion week-long immersion event.
  • CCS invites industry professionals interested in visual storytelling, animation, gaming, illustration, 3D asset creation, concept art and motion graphics to an exclusive showcase featuring exceptional talents of Entertainment Arts and Illustration students.
  • Over 200 CCS students will participate and over 120 CCS students will present their creative reels and portfolios.
  • The illustration course options form pathways in visual development, publishing, fashion lifestyle and licensing, comics and sequential, or gallery artist.

Phoenix K-6 School Taps Power of VR and Storytelling to Bring Subjects to Life for Students

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Thursday, March 28, 2024
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PHOENIX, March 28, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, ASU Prep Pilgrim Rest announced a new partnership with Dreamscape Learn, making it the first elementary school in the country to offer students a dynamic new learning experience that blends the power of experiential pedagogy, cinematic engagement, and advanced virtual reality (VR) technology. 

Key Points: 
  • In the years following the pandemic, U.S. schools have seen an unprecedented spike in student absences across the United States.
  • Over one-fourth of students were chronically absent in the school year 2021-22 — a significant increase from the pre-pandemic figure of 15%.
  • Researchers cite student disengagement at school as one of the key factors contributing to chronic absenteeism, making learning recovery challenging.
  • Educators can lead students to explore ancient civilizations, distant planets, microscopic organisms, and underwater ecosystems, all
    from within their school walls.

Data Equity Advocate Ninez A. Ponce Receives 2024 Elizabeth Fries Health Education Award

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Wednesday, March 20, 2024
Health promotion, Health equity, Health, Equity, Society, Psychology, Population health, Research, Diversity, Policy, Health policy, Native Hawaiians, Social insurance, MPP, Teaching, Organization, Stanford Cancer Institute, Memory, National Quality Forum, Public, MD, Student, Health care, Public health, Virginia Commonwealth University, Medical statistics, Doctor of Philosophy, Faculty, Milbank Quarterly, Data collection, CDC, Lecture, National academy, Health education, Nursing

ATLANTA, March 20, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Ninez A. Ponce, PhD, MPP, distinguished public health researcher, today received the 2024 Elizabeth Fries Health Education Award.

Key Points: 
  • ATLANTA, March 20, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Ninez A. Ponce, PhD, MPP, distinguished public health researcher, today received the 2024 Elizabeth Fries Health Education Award.
  • This year's award was presented to Ponce at the annual meeting of the Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE), along with her lecture entitled "No Equity without Data Equity."
  • The Elizabeth Fries Health Education Award, first presented in 1992, recognizes a health educator who has made a substantial contribution to advancing the field of health education or health promotion through research, program development or program delivery.
  • As of 2016, the CDC Foundation manages and administers the Fries Foundation's public health award programs, which include the Fries Prize for Improving Health and the Elizabeth Fries Health Education Award.

International Harrington Prize Awarded to Dr. Arlene Sharpe

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Tuesday, March 19, 2024
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CLEVELAND, March 19, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The eleventh annual Harrington Prize for Innovation in Medicine has been awarded to Arlene H. Sharpe, MD, PhD, Kolokotrones University Professor and Chair of the Department of Immunology at Harvard Medical School. The award recognizes her breakthrough discoveries in immune regulation, which have established foundational principles in immunology and led to new cancer therapies that act by boosting the immune response to cancer.

Key Points: 
  • CLEVELAND, March 19, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The eleventh annual Harrington Prize for Innovation in Medicine has been awarded to Arlene H. Sharpe, MD, PhD, Kolokotrones University Professor and Chair of the Department of Immunology at Harvard Medical School.
  • Her work helped identify key pathways that restrain the activity of T lymphocytes (immune cells) to fight cancer.
  • A committee composed of members of the ASCI Council and the Harrington Discovery Institute Scientific Advisory Board reviewed nominations from leading academic medical centers globally before selecting the 2024 Harrington Prize recipient.
  • 2023: Jean Bennett, MD, PhD, and Albert M. Maguire, MD, for their groundbreaking translational research to restore sight in inherited genetic diseases.

Actor Jeffrey Wright and Congressman James E. Clyburn Honored by Americans for the Arts at the 35th Nancy Hanks Lecture on Arts and Public Policy

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Monday, March 18, 2024
American Fiction, Culture, Congress, Conference, Face, MSNBC, Veteran, Education, Public policy, Policy, House, AFTA, Imagination, Lecture, Multimedia, Academy Awards, The arts

During the conversation, Wright said, "I think the scarcest resource, not just here but in many places, is vision of the way forward.

Key Points: 
  • During the conversation, Wright said, "I think the scarcest resource, not just here but in many places, is vision of the way forward.
  • E Clyburn (SC) was honored with the 2024 Congressional Arts Leadership Award, from Americans for the Arts and the United States Conference of Mayors, presented by Congressman Hakeem Jeffries , House Minority Leader.
  • The award recognizes an elected official who has consistently advocated for expanding federal support for the arts and culture and arts education.
  • Established by AFTA in 1988, the Nancy Hanks Lecture on Arts and Public Policy is the leading national forum for arts policy intended to stimulate dialogue on policy and social issues affecting the arts.

Shocked to the core: a new model to understand euro area inflation

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Tuesday, April 2, 2024
Civil service commission, Federal Reserve Bank, Consumer, Overfitting, Christian Social Union (UK), Natural gas, Central bank, ECB, Trinity College, COVID-19, Shock, Journal, Trinity College Dublin, A.I, Supply, European Economic Review, Literature, European Commission, Lecture, Energy economics, DeSantis, European Central Bank, Appendix, Cryptocurrency

The pandemic's disruption of global supply chains and the spike in natural gas prices following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine were significant drivers of surging inflation.

Key Points: 
  • The pandemic's disruption of global supply chains and the spike in natural gas prices following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine were significant drivers of surging inflation.
  • Traditional inflation models often ignore such supply-side shocks, even though they can have a significant and persistent impact on core inflation in the euro area (as measured by rates of change in the Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices excluding the energy and food components).

Allbritton Art Institute & Library moves to UST-Houston Campus

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Friday, March 1, 2024
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The Allbritton Art Institute recently partnered with UST and moved to the campus in Houston’s renowned Museum District.

Key Points: 
  • The Allbritton Art Institute recently partnered with UST and moved to the campus in Houston’s renowned Museum District.
  • in Art History,” said Associate Division Dean for Fine & Performing Arts and Allbritton Art Institute Interim Director Dr. Dominic Aquila.
  • Integral to its mission, the Institute provides opportunities for students to study original works of art.
  • The Allbritton Art Institute offers art history classes, opportunities and funding for students to study abroad, scholarships, world-class art lectures, new art history faculty positions and a library of 4,000 art books.