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Research at Colleges Newsletter for 2024-07-01 ( 4 items )  
Being Involved in Extracurricular Activities Really Does Matter When It Comes to 'Mattering': Dalhousie University Research (10)
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, June 24 (TNSres) -- Dalhousie University issued the following news release: How much do extracurricular activities matter when it comes to, well, feelings of mattering? A research project at Dalhousie University addressed that question with a study highlighting the link between student involvement in activities outside of their main academic pursuits and their sense of mattering -- a key part of mental health that is defined as the extent to which an individual feels they more PR

Income Differences in the Netherlands: It's Not as Equal Here as You Might Think (10)
LEIDEN, The Netherlands, June 25 (TNSres) -- Leiden University issued the following news: Egbert Jongen researches income inequality in the Netherlands. Where are the differences and what can we do about them? This Professor of Economics and Socioeconomic Policy will explain more in his inaugural lecture on 1 July. 'We can learn from countries with less difference between men and women and between people with and without a migration background.' What will you discuss in your inaugural lecture? more PR

Uncovering the Drivers of a Million-Year-Old Glacial Transition (10)
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, June 24 (TNSres) -- The University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences issued the following news: * * * Driving a climate model forward and backward in time, Mann Research Group scientists found strong path dependence in the evolution of Plio-Pleistocene glaciations. * * * The climate modeling community has been particularly vexed by the glacial/interglacial cycles of the past three million years, when the Northern Hemisphere oscillated between times with  more PR

Uni Mates Headed to Rome as Conaci Scholars (10)
BRISBANE, Australia, June 24 (TNSres) -- The Australian Catholic University issued the following news: Since their first day studying teaching at Australian Catholic University (ACU), Zane Ratcliff and Ryan St. John have become inseparable. From playing on the same team at Indigenous Nationals, to supporting each other at the Indigenous Higher Education Unit at ACU Banyo Campus, Zane and Ryan consider each other family. "We've developed a bond in the past couple of years which goes much deepe more PR