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André Linhares is a University of Waterloo doctoral student who uses mathematical models to help children with facial deformities. Linhares, a PhD student in the Faculty of Math, is working with surgeons at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children to help ensure the best possible outcome for children who undergo skull surgery. Read more: https://uwaterloo.ca/stories/using-mathematical-models-make-best-cuts-skull-surgery […]

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As an African American man pursuing a PhD in the seciences, Geoff Lovely has sometimes had to overcome a feeling that he didn’t belong in the halls of top research universities where he saw few peers of color. The  Caltech student is intent on becoming a professor “where I think I can definitely make an […]

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Mathematicians were shown “ugly” and “beautiful” equations while in a brain scanner at University College London. The same emotional brain centres used to appreciate art were being activated by “beautiful” maths. The researchers suggest there may be a neurobiological basis to beauty. Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-26151062 […]

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The future of a WHO programme that ensures the quality of medicines for numerous global health NGOs and UN agencies is vulnerable unless more donors start funding it, health experts have warned. The Prequalification of Medicines Programme (PQP) relies on just two donors — the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and global health organisation UNITAID — for roughly 90 per cent […]

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A training programme is helping Ghana and Zimbabwe build capacity in health research to provide local evidence for policymakers, researchers say. Researchers implementing the programme — diploma in project design and management (DPDM) — say inadequate capacity for undertaking health research in Africa badly affects the ability of policymakers to have locally relevant evidence to guide their work. […]

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Five female chemists from the developing world will receive US$5,000 prizes this week (15 February) at a ceremony at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Chicago, United States. The winners of the second Elsevier Foundation Awards for Early Career Women Scientists in the Developing World come from Indonesia, […]

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