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Bridging Research and Practice

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The Empowering Futures Gift was earmarked to fund scholarships, advance medical education and research, support faculty expertise, increase athletic competitiveness and make possible numerous student-centered initiatives. Across campus, there’s the school’s college for student success, which is named after the first Black alumna, Dr.

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Bringing Greater Impact

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

He joined the faculty of Connecticut College in 2003, and was an associate professor of history, director of the African American studies program as well as interim dean of institutional equity and inclusion, chair of the history department and director of the Center of the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity.

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A Model to Engage Learners in Discussions on Health Equity and Implicit Bias

The Scholarly Teacher

Kalpana Panigrahi, Interfaith Medical Center. Implicit bias plays a large role in the delivery of healthcare in the United States (Institute of Medicine, 2003). Brendle, MAHEC, Boone North Carolina. Yee Lam, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Jessica Waters Davis , University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Introduction.

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The uniqueness of learning: Rethinking the meaning of student-centred education

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

Image credit: unsplash, Ying Ge, CC0 In this extra post, Dr Adan Chew, Dr Jess Gurney, and Dr Magdalena Cerbin-Koczorowska, from Edinburgh Medical School, explore the concept of student-centred education through the lens of medical education and clinical practice. Embracing standardisation and contextualisation in medical education.

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The uniqueness of learning: Rethinking the meaning of student-centred education

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

Image credit: unsplash, Ying Ge, CC0 In this extra post, Dr Adan Chew, Dr Jess Gurney, and Dr Magdalena Cerbin-Koczorowska, from Edinburgh Medical School, explore the concept of student-centred education through the lens of medical education and clinical practice. Embracing standardisation and contextualisation in medical education.

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Mental Health and Learning Among Students with Marginalized Sociodemographic Identities

Supporting Student Success

Minority stress theory, coined by Ilan Meyer (2003), articulates empirically supported findings where marginalized sociodemographic groups experience increased risk for distress due to more frequent and deleterious experiences of discrimination, harassment, systemic oppression / barriers, stigmatization and social isolation. Dandeneau, S.,

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Two from MIT awarded 2024 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans

CAPD

Riyam Al Msari Riyam Al Msari, born in Baghdad, Iraq, faced a turbulent childhood shaped by the 2003 war. At Oxford, she performed substantial research on uncertainty quantification of machine learning models for medical imaging in the OxCSML group. She also played for Oxford’s Women’s Blues Football team.