The University of Buckingham partners with CENTA for Teaching Professionals’ Olympiad
Aimed at rewarding, recognising and celebrating teaching professionals, CENTA Teaching Professionals’ Olympiad (TPO) 2020 is an online event.
City University of Hong Kong scholar wins Tencent’s Xplorer Prize
Professor Wang Zuankai of CityU won the 2020 Xplorer Prize organised by the Tencent Foundation for his fundamental research on water energy harvesting as well as nature-inspired engineering.
How the Sydney cluster grew—and what it could mean for New Zealand
With news of a new strain of the Covid-19 virus spreading in the UK, it looks like Australia’s Christmas plans are also up in the air with a new cluster of cases in Sydney.
UW–Madison senior among finalists for 2021 Rhodes Scholarship
University of Wisconsin–Madison senior Alex Plum competed this year as a finalist for the Rhodes Scholarship, the oldest and most celebrated college award for postgraduate international study.
LSD may offer viable treatment for certain mental disorders
Researchers from McGill University have discovered, for the first time, one of the possible mechanisms that contributes to the ability of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) to increase social interaction.
Mental health pilot program expands to more primary schools
A pilot mental health program successfully trialled in Victorian primary schools will be expanded to a total of 26 schools in 2021.
Clearing the air: make more outdoor pedestrian spaces smokefree, researchers urge
Creating large smokefree outdoor pedestrian spaces would aid the health sector’s efforts to help people quit smoking, researchers say.
Research for the World: new LSE magazine showcases the power of the social sciences
From working to identify the environmental impact of deforestation and improving our understanding of income inequality to the impact of COVID-19 on care homes...
Monash students race to create cyborg heart in world-first competition
A team of Monash University biomedical engineering students has launched a global artificial heart competition to help combat one of the world’s biggest killers – heart failure.
Growing skin in the lab to treat a rare disease
Scientists have successfully gene-engineered skin cells in the laboratory which could be used to treat a rare but sometimes debilitating genetic skin condition.
