Imperial Valley News Center
Research links tobacco smoke and roadway air pollution with childhood obesity
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- Written by Leslie Ridgeway
Los Angeles, California - New research from Keck Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC) bolsters evidence that exposure to tobacco smoke and near-roadway air pollution contribute to the development of obesity.
Baby Boomers Will Drive Explosion in Alzheimer’s-Related Costs in Coming Decades
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- Written by Robert Perkins
Los Angeles, California - As baby boomers reach their sunset years, shifting nationwide demographics with them, the financial burden of Alzheimer’s disease on the United States will skyrocket from $307 billion annually to $1.5 trillion, USC researchers announced Tuesday.
Stanford research suggests ways to close the gender gap in law schools
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- Written by Clifton B. Parker
Stanford, California - Reducing class sizes and reforming grading systems may help reduce the gender gap in professional school settings, according to a new Stanford study.
Water sector ripe for innovation and investment
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- Written by Rob Jordan
Stanford, California - Investors looking for promising growth markets would do well to consider their water bill.
Of rats and men: Tolman, behavior and academic freedom
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- Written by Barry Bergman
Berkeley, California - If you’ve ever been to Tolman Hall, you probably reached it not by rigid adherence to a series of mechanical steps - start at West Circle, go up Hilgard Way, first right to the end of Morgan Hall, then first left and voila - but by navigating via the map in your head. That is, you pictured its location, and figured out a suitable route.
Students’ ‘Feeding Forward’ fights hunger, food waste
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- Written by Cathy Cockrell
Berkeley, California - For fourth-year Berkeley student Chloe Tsang, it isn’t necessary to take an international flight to encounter the”global poverty” she has studied in class. Hunger, should we choose to see it, is “at our back door,” on the streets of Berkeley - a reality not to ignore or lament, she believes, but to address with head and heart.
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