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To Celebrate Kids Helping Kids Across the Globe, Microsoft Sponsors First U.S. We Day

By Guest PostMarch 27, 2013Technologychild labor, christmas toy giveaway, coast of uganda, craig kielburger, digigirlz, free the children, jennifer hudson, keyarena, kids helping kids, lori harnick, magic johnson, martin luther king, martin sheen, mia farrow, microsoft ceo, microsoft sponsors, nelly furtado, Pakistan, seattle, steve ballmer, we act program, we day, we day event, young canadian, youthspark initiative

As part of its YouthSpark initiative to create opportunities for youth, Microsoft welcomes 15,000 students to We Day at Seattle’s KeyArena.

SEATTLE — March 27, 2013 — At the age of 12, while looking for the morning comics in the newspaper, Craig Kielburger stumbled upon a news item about a 12-year-old boy killed in Pakistan for speaking out against child labor. Outraged by the story, he desperately wanted to do something to help. After a number of phone calls and attempts to contact nonprofit organizations, Kielburger realized it wasn’t so easy for kids to get involved with social activism. That’s when he got an idea.

That same year, the young Canadian founded his own nonprofit, Free The Children, to pave the way for kids to help other kids around the world. Twelve years later, in 2007, Kielburger took his organization to the next level, launching the We Act program in schools across Canada and creating a more widespread approach to helping youth make a difference. As part of the program, Free The Children hosts a celebration in each participating city called We Day. (more…)

Jordanna Bailkin studies postwar Britain in new book ‘The Afterlife of Empire’

By Guest PostMarch 27, 2013Politicsafterlife of empire, decolonization, postwar britain

Jordanna Bailkin is a University of Washington professor of history and author of the new book “The Afterlife of Empire.” She answered a few questions about the book for UW Today. (more…)

Political strife undermines HIV treatment

By Guest PostMarch 27, 2013Healthantiretroviral treatment, hiv, hiv epidemics, hiv treatment, political violence, treatment failure, viral resistance

Among other tragedies in countries with HIV epidemics, political violence can have the additional long-term consequence of an increase in viral resistance to treatment and HIV treatment failure, say the authors of a new paper in AIDS Reviews. The researchers, who have studied post-strife treatment failure and resistance in Kenya, argue that officials and health care providers need to study and prepare for how violence disrupts antiretroviral treatment and complicates the epidemic. (more…)

One brain-y student

By Guest PostMarch 27, 2013Educationaspects of bilingualism, benjamin munson, brain researcher, brainy student, chinese, eeg cap, english speakers, erin diamond, lab, mandarin, theoretical knowledge, university of minnesota, yang zhang

Erin Diamond shines as a brain researcher

In October 2010 freshman Erin Diamond first walked into Yang Zhang’s lab, knowing nothing about his specialty: brain imaging.

Before the day was out, she was setting up experiments, putting an EEG cap on volunteers, and generally undergoing total immersion in the field. (more…)

Supercomputer Helps Planck Mission Expose Ancient Light

By Guest PostMarch 27, 2013Scienceamount of time, ancient light, charles lawrence, cosmic microwave background, cray xe6 system, european space agency, grace hopper, hopper, julian borrill, NASA, planck mission, quintillion calculations, roy kaltschmidt, second, supercomputer

Like archeologists carefully digging for fossils, scientists with the Planck mission are sifting through cosmic clutter to find the most ancient light in the universe.

The Planck space telescope has created the most precise sky map ever made of the oldest light known, harking back to the dawn of time. This light, called the cosmic microwave background, has traveled 13.8 billion years to reach us. It is so faint that Planck observes every point on the sky an average of 1,000 times to pick up its glow. (more…)

UCLA Relies on Breakthrough ‘Big Data’ Technology from IBM To Help Patients with Traumatic Brain Injuries

By Guest PostMarch 26, 2013Technologybrain damage, brain injury research, death, department of neurosurgery, eme, excel medical electronics, hospitals in america, ibm, ibm research, ibm software, laboratory, martin kohn, patients, rising brain pressure, spinal cord, t j watson, traumatic brain injury, ucla

Bedside Early-Warning System from IBM and Excel Medical Electronics Can Analyze Large Amounts of Data in Real Time to Predict Dangerous Changes in a Patient’s Condition

Armonk, N.Y. and Los Angeles, CA – 26 Mar 2013: IBM, and Excel Medical Electronics (EME) are collaborating with the UCLA Department of Neurosurgery in a study to test the effectiveness of a real-time alarm intended to predict rising brain pressure in patients with traumatic brain injuries. The experimental system uses big data analytics software developed by IBM Research and EME that analyzes in real-time streams of vital signs continuously collected from the bedside monitor to spot subtle changes in the patient’s pulse, blood and intracranial pressure, heart activity, and respiration, signaling that dangerous high-risk increases in brain pressure are on the way. (more…)

Prescription for double-dose algebra proves effective

By Guest PostMarch 26, 2013Sciencecps, double dose algebra, double period idea, education policy, elaine allensworth, everyday mathematics, failure rates, k 12 education, martin gartzman, math, melissa roderick, periods of algebra, Science, takako nomi, university of chicago

Martin Gartzman sat in his dentist’s waiting room last fall when he read a study in Education Next that nearly brought him to tears.

A decade ago, in his former position as chief math and science officer for Chicago Public Schools, Gartzman spearheaded an attempt to decrease ninth-grade algebra failure rates, an issue he calls “an incredibly vexing problem.” His idea was to provide extra time for struggling students by having them take two consecutive periods of algebra.

Gartzman had been under the impression that the double-dose algebra program he had instituted had only marginal results, but the study he read indicated otherwise. (more…)

Bio for nano

By Guest PostMarch 26, 2013Sciencebio inspired ideas, biomaterials, biomolecules, inorganic nanoparticles, nanomaterials, nanostructures in water, prototypes

Engineers work to create new biomaterials with energy technology applications

When automotive engineers want to create a new car, they don’t build thousands of prototypes. Instead, they create computer models and run simulations for performance, efficiency and desirability before a model is selected for fabrication. (more…)

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