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Social Media a Key Tool for People Entering Today’s Job Market

By Guest PostApril 3, 2012Economy, General, Technologycommunication, Google, linkedIn, lisa severy, online presence, social media

Many of today’s college students use social media as their main form of communication, but getting them to use it in a professional manner can sometimes be a challenge, according to Lisa Severy, director of the University of Colorado Boulder Office of Career Services.

With many employers using social media and conducting Google searches as part of their employee screening process, creating a positive and professional online presence can go a long way in helping students land a job out of school, according to Severy. (more…)

U of T Research Demonstrates How Children Learn About Prejudice

By Guest PostMarch 24, 2012Generalanjum nayyar, children, elementary school, external instruction, kang and inzlicht, kids, michael inzlicht, negative experience, prejudice, red group, sonia kang, toronto, university of toronto

How do children come to realize that they themselves might be targets of prejudice? It may depend on their age. New research conducted at the University of Toronto shows that a six-year-old may be influenced most by direct instruction about prejudice, but once that child gets closer to 10, she begins to rely more on her own experiences.

“Young children are information hungry – they are eagerly searching for general rules to help in mapping out their social worlds,” write researchers Sonia Kang, an assistant professor in the Department of Management at U of T Mississauga and the Rotman School of Management, and Professor Michael Inzlicht of the Department of Psychology in this month’s Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. (more…)

Walk of A Lifetime Promotes Organ Donation

By Guest PostMarch 21, 2012General, Health, Mediafirefighter, harry kiernan, kidney, liver, los angeles, new haven, new york, organ donation, sukru emre, united states, vietnam veteran, walk of 2012

Donating part of his liver and a kidney to two different recipients was not enough for Harry Kiernan. The Vietnam veteran and firefighter is now taking his efforts to raise awareness about organ donation many steps further by walking across the United States.

Kiernan’s 3,300-mile journey began on March 19 at Yale-New Haven Hospital, where a kick off ceremony for “Walk of 2012,” took place under the Donate Life flag near the hospital’s entrance. (more…)

Growing Market for Human Organs Exploits Poor

By Guest PostMarch 13, 2012General, Health, Mediaanthropologist, Bangladesh, bangladeshi newspaper, black market, body parts, corneas, dhaka, Europe, exploitation, health problems, human kidney, human organ trafficking, India, kidneys, livers, mehedi hasan, michigan state university, middle east, monir moniruzzaman, organ broker, organ trade, organ trafficking, poor people, rickshaw puller, transplant, united states, us congress, us senate committee, victims

EAST LANSING, Mich. — A Michigan State University anthropologist who spent more than a year infiltrating the black market for human kidneys has published the first in-depth study describing the often horrific experiences of poor people who were victims of organ trafficking.

Monir Moniruzzaman interviewed 33 kidney sellers in his native Bangladesh and found they typically didn’t get the money they were promised and were plagued with serious health problems that prevented them from working, shame and depression. (more…)

One Year Later: Japan Quake, Tsunami a Cautionary Tale for Pacific Northwest

By Guest PostMarch 8, 2012Environment, Generalalki, british columbia, cascadia subduction zone, earthquakes, hokkaido university, Japan, jody bourgeois, john vidale, long beach peninsula, magnitude 9, northern california, ocean shores, one year anniversary, oregon, pacific northwest, prediction, puget sound, sapporo, seattle fault, seismometer readings, sunday, tohoku earthquake, tsunami, tsunami evacuation, united states, university of washington, Washington

Sunday marks the one-year anniversary of the great Tohoku earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan, killing more than 16,000 people and causing billions of dollars in damage.

University of Washington scientists say the event has some important lessons for the Pacific Northwest – most notably, not that a similar event can happen here but that it WILL happen here, and that this region is still much less prepared than Japan was a year ago. (more…)

Rock, Pop, White Power: How Music Influences Support For Ethnic Groups

By Guest PostMarch 6, 2012Culture, Generalafrican americans, arab americans, bruce springsteen, ethnic, ethnicity, greg hoplamazian, heather lamarre, jeff grabmeier, latino americans, lyrics, music, music player, race, racial groups, rock music, silvia knobloch westerwick, the white stripes, white college students

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Just a few minutes of listening to mainstream rock music was enough to influence white college students to favor a student group catering mostly to whites over groups serving other ethnic and racial groups, a new study found.

However, white students who listened to more ethnically diverse Top 40 pop music showed equal support for groups focused on whites, African Americans, Arab Americans and Latino Americans. (more…)

One Year after Triple Disasters, Japan Continues to Struggle

By Guest PostMarch 3, 2012Environment, Generalbureaucratic red tape, catastrophe, coastal city, coastal communities, earthquake, ethan segal, evacuation zone, fukushima nuclear power plant, haiti, hurricane katrina, Japan, japanese government, japanese history, katsurao, michigan state university, nuclear meltdown, rikuzen takata, tepco, tokyo electric power, triple disasters, tsunami

EAST LANSING, Mich. — A year after Japan was struck by triple disasters – earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown – many citizens cannot find regular work and face the possibility of never returning to their homes and seeing their communities disappear, according to a Michigan State University scholar.

Ethan Segal, associate professor of Japanese history, made two trips to Japan following the March 11, 2011, catastrophe, spending close to two weeks in the northeastern part of the country that was most directly affected. (more…)

Protecting People From Deadly Floods, Quakes in The Philippines

By Guest PostFebruary 25, 2012Environment, Generaldisaster, earthquake, economic vulnerability, elizabeth renckens, flash flooding, flood zones, flooding, gavin shatkin, geological features, greater metropolitan manila, manila, marikina river, mudslides, natural, philippine, southeast asian, topography, typhoons, university of michigan, urban planning, william foreman

ANN ARBOR, Mich.— Typhoons thrash the Philippines every year, causing flash flooding and mudslides that often kill hundreds of people in the Southeast Asian nation. Many blame the death and destruction on the wrath of nature. But Gavin Shatkin has a different view.

“Disasters are not natural,” said Shatkin, an associate professor of urban planning at the University of Michigan. “They happen because of social structures.” (more…)

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