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SHAPE in Schools: Changing mindsets in support of social sciences, humanities and the arts

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SHAPE in Schools: Changing mindsets in support of social sciences, humanities and the arts Published: Social sciences, humanities and the arts are vital for addressing complex challenges, but do young people truly understand their value? What is SHAPE?

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The Math Revolution You Haven’t Heard About

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Math professor Martin Weissman is rethinking how his university teaches calculus. Over the summer, the professor from the University of California at Santa Cruz, spent a week at Harvard to learn how to redesign the mathematics for life sciences courses his institution offers. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Our class has no prerequisites.

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Harnessing the power of music to improve mental health

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Professor Gilles Comeau , from the University of Ottawa in Canada, hopes to change this. Harnessing the power of music to improve mental health Published: Engaging with music has proven positive impacts on mental health and well-being, yet musical interventions are rarely used in healthcare settings.

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Could a nettle a day keep the doctor away?

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Dr Diana Obanda, Assistant Professor in Nutrition and Food Science, is on the case. Pathway from school to nutrition science • Nutrition science programmes at university focus on the chemical and biological components of our food and the ways in which these ingredients affect our health. •

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How can place attachment improve scientific literacy?

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Published: At Furman University in the US, Dr Ben Haywood and Professor Julia Parrish from the University of Washington are studying how citizen science programmes impact the relationships participants have with the places and ecology they study which might, in turn, increase scientific literacy. 1322820 and 2031884.

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Synthetic biology: the power of modified microbes

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Synthetic biology: the power of modified microbes Published: Microbes are the world’s most brilliant chemists, able to turn simple sugars and other compounds into a vast array of complex chemicals. The general idea of synthetic biology is that we can engineer microbes to do things that naturally occurring microbes don’t do,” he says.

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Fire trackers: how can we use modelling techniques to predict where wildfires will occur?

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Professor Trent Penman, Dr Kate Parkins and Dr Erica Marshall are researchers from the FLARE Wildfire Research Group, based at The University of Melbourne. It involves not just fire behaviour but also animal ecology, human ethics, social science, engineering, politics, environmental law, health science and mathematics.”

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