WILLIAMSBURG, Virginia, March 6 -- William and Mary issued the following news: * * * 'Building Bridges:' Graduate Research Symposium reaches across disciplines * Graduate students from William & Mary and other institutions around the United States recently had a chance to showcase their work as part of the university's annual Graduate Research Symposium, Feb. 26-27. Organized by a committee of student volunteers and hosted by William & Mary's Graduate Center, this event brought together ove more PR

GLENSIDE, Pennsylvania, March 7 -- Arcadia University issued the following news: * * * Dr. Velazco Publishes Two New Studies on Frugivorous (Fruit-Eating) Bats By Natalie Tursi '27 Assistant Professor of Biology Dr. Paul Velazco recently published two new studies, including one with a pair of alumni, on frugivorous, or fruit-eating, bats. The first appears in the Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. Titled "Phylogeny, biogeography, and classification of frugivorous bats in s more PR

BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 6 -- The Boston University School of Public Health issued the following news: * * * Low-cost Preventive Measures Could Mitigate Spread of Bacteria Causing Neonatal Mortality A new study found that a multifaceted infection prevention and control intervention could at least temporarily thwart outbreaks of infections from the Klebsiella pneumoniae bacterium, a leading cause of neonatal sepsis and mortality in Africa and South Asia.  Sepsis is a leading cause of neo more PR

MONTREAL, Quebec, March 6 -- The University of Montreal issued the following news: * * * 'To get to the truth' Holder of the Canada Research Chair in Precision Medicine Data Analysis, Marie-Pierre Dube has spent 2 decades researching people's response to drug treatment and why women react differently from men. By Jeff Heinrich Marie-Pierre Dube has award-winning expertise in genetic epidemiology, biostatistics, pharmacogenomics and cardiology - and that's not all. In an academic career sp more PR

WURZBURG, Germany, March 6 -- The University of Wurzburg issued the following news release: * * * Villages: underestimated habitats with potential * When it comes to research on habitats for pollinating insects, villages have so far received relatively little attention. The project "Summende Dorfer" (Buzzing Villages), based at the Chair of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology (Zoology III) at the Julius-Maximilians-Universitat Wurzburg (JMU), aims to change that. In the Wurzburg region and more PR

WILKES-BARRE, Pennsylvania, March 7 -- Wilkes University issued the following news release: * * * Dr. Daniel R. Green to Present Grace Kimball Memorial Lecture on March 18 Paleoecologist and biological anthropologist, Daniel R. Green, will present this year's Grace Kimball Memorial Lecture, "Chemical Paleontology: Paleoclimate and Evolution from the East African Rift System," at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, March 18, in Stark Learning Center 105. The lecture is free and open to the public. Global co more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, March 7 (TNSjou) -- Yale University issued the following news: * * * The weight of stress: Helping parents may protect children from obesity Yale researchers found that helping parents regulate stress, when combined with healthy nutrition, curbed obesity risk in their young children. By Karen Guzman In recent years, rates of childhood obesity have been rising, with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control estimating in 2024 that approximately one in five children and a more PR