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University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston: School of Dentistry Research Launches to International Space Station Aboard SpaceX CRS-34 Mission
HOUSTON, Texas, May 22 -- The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston issued the following news:
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School of Dentistry research launches to International Space Station aboard SpaceX CRS-34 mission
By Kyle Rogers
Research from UTHealth Houston School of Dentistry is orbiting Earth aboard the International Space Station as part of an innovative project studying how to preserve bone health in space.
The project, known as VIBES -- Vibration-Induced Bone Exercise Stimulation -- will examine whether low-intensity vibration can help counteract the aging-like bone loss associated
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HOUSTON, Texas, May 22 -- The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston issued the following news:
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School of Dentistry research launches to International Space Station aboard SpaceX CRS-34 mission
By Kyle Rogers
Research from UTHealth Houston School of Dentistry is orbiting Earth aboard the International Space Station as part of an innovative project studying how to preserve bone health in space.
The project, known as VIBES -- Vibration-Induced Bone Exercise Stimulation -- will examine whether low-intensity vibration can help counteract the aging-like bone loss associatedwith microgravity.
The study uses 3D-printed tissue-engineered bone marrow analogs designed to model the effects of aging and bone loss in space. Researchers aim to better understand whether low-intensity mechanical vibration can serve as a countermeasure to preserve bone tissue during extended spaceflight.
Some samples aboard the International Space Station will receive low-intensity vibration twice daily during the 21-day mission, while others will serve as non-stimulated controls for comparison.
Launched May 15 aboard SpaceX's CRS-34 resupply mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, the experiment will operate aboard the International Space Station for 21 days using Space Tango's automated bioreactor system.
Led by Gunes Uzer, PhD, of Boise State University's College of Engineering, the $1.2 million National Science Foundation-funded project includes researchers, graduate students, and undergraduate students from multiple institutions, including Rice University and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Representing the School of Dentistry on the interdisciplinary research team are Mary C. "Cindy" Farach-Carson, PhD, professor and associate dean for research, and Danielle Wu, PhD, assistant professor, from the Department of Diagnostic and Biomedical Sciences.
"This project represents an exciting opportunity to study bone biology in a completely unique environment," Farach-Carson said. "The findings could have important implications not only for astronauts during long-duration missions, including missions to Mars or permanent stations on the moon, but also for aging populations and individuals experiencing bone loss here on Earth."
Microgravity conditions in space can accelerate bone deterioration, making astronauts more susceptible to fractures and other skeletal complications. Researchers hope the study will provide insights into strategies that may reduce those effects and contribute to future treatments for osteoporosis and age-related bone disease.
Wu said the collaboration reflects the project's interdisciplinary nature.
"Participating in a project aboard the International Space Station underscores how collaboration among engineers, biomedical scientists, and biologists drives transformative discovery, all while preparing the next generation of researchers to work seamlessly across disciplines to solve complex health challenges," Wu said.
The VIBES mission brings together expertise in tissue engineering, biomechanics, space biology, and regenerative medicine, with the goal of advancing human health in space and on Earth.
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Dragon spacecraft launched at 5:05 p.m. CT on May 15. After an approximately 36-hour flight, Dragon autonomously docked with the International Space Station on May 17.
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Original text here: https://www.uth.edu/news/story/school-of-dentistry-research-launches-to-international-space-station-aboard-spacex-crs-34-mission
University of Newcastle returns to positive core operating result in 2025
CALLAGHAN, Australia, May 22 -- The University of Newcastle posted the following news:
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University of Newcastle returns to positive core operating result in 2025
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The University of Newcastle's Vice-Chancellor has today shared the university's 2025 financial results with staff.
In sharing the results with staff, the Vice-Chancellor recognised the challenges faced by staff during 2025 and looked to the future.
"2025 was a challenging year for many across our University community. We recognise organisational change affected staff and teams last year as we navigated a Business Improvement
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CALLAGHAN, Australia, May 22 -- The University of Newcastle posted the following news:
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University of Newcastle returns to positive core operating result in 2025
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The University of Newcastle's Vice-Chancellor has today shared the university's 2025 financial results with staff.
In sharing the results with staff, the Vice-Chancellor recognised the challenges faced by staff during 2025 and looked to the future.
"2025 was a challenging year for many across our University community. We recognise organisational change affected staff and teams last year as we navigated a Business ImprovementProject to make our core operations financially sustainable," Professor Zelinsky said.
"These decisions were not taken lightly. We've now achieved our first core operating surplus since 2021, which is an important milestone that places us in a stronger position to now rebuild and invest in the things that matter most - our students, staff and communities."
In 2025, the University reported a Consolidated Operating Surplus of $112.5 million and a Core Operating Surplus of $15.4 million. As the University is a not-for-profit organisation, these funds are reinvested into student, staff and community services, initiatives and facilities.
The result was supported by strong growth in international student numbers, continued strong domestic student numbers and improved retention, and operational efficiencies delivered through the Business Improvement Program.
Vice-Chancellor Professor Alex Zelinsky said the return to a positive operating margin strengthened the University's capacity to invest in its future.
"Across the sector we're seeing how challenging things are at the moment and, while we've weathered significant challenges, our result now positions us well for the future.
"While our 2025 Annual Report outlines important progress towards long-term financial sustainability, the broader higher education sector continues to face ongoing uncertainty.
"We are operating in an inflationary environment and can expect operating expenses to continue increasing, alongside insufficient public funding for critically-important public research, increased regulation of student numbers through the Australian Tertiary Education Commission, increasing competition, and investment returns that could be softer.
"These factors mean the University is facing an environment that will require prudent management. I am confident that by working together with our teams and with our communities we can overcome these challenges."
"We want to be a strong university that provides opportunities for people in our region to study, work and be part of life-changing research," Professor Zelinsky said.
"When I look back on 2025, despite the challenges, I also want to recognise some of the achievements. We now teach more than 39,000 students, our student satisfaction continues to improve strongly year on year, and women now represent almost 40% of senior academic positions, up from 33.5% five years ago.
"We're also working to provide more desperately-needed accommodation for our students, with construction commencing on the City Campus student accommodation, which will provide an additional 445 student beds in the heart of the CBD."
The University's annual report will be available on the university's website after tabling in NSW Parliament this month.
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Original text here: https://www.newcastle.edu.au/news/2026/05/university-of-newcastle-returns-to-positive-core-operating-result-in-2025
NASA's Atmospheric Waves Experiment Completes On-Orbit Data Collection
LOGAN, Utah, May 22 -- Utah State University issued the following news:
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NASA's Atmospheric Waves Experiment Completes On-Orbit Data Collection
Utah State University's Space Dynamics Laboratory and USU's Department of Physics have announced NASA's Atmospheric Waves Experiment has completed the on-orbit data collection phase of its mission. The mission will continue with processing and analyzing images collected during the 30-month on-orbit phase.
At 17:04 Coordinated Universal Time on May 21, NASA and ground operators at SDL gave final approval to power down the AWE instrument, which the
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LOGAN, Utah, May 22 -- Utah State University issued the following news:
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NASA's Atmospheric Waves Experiment Completes On-Orbit Data Collection
Utah State University's Space Dynamics Laboratory and USU's Department of Physics have announced NASA's Atmospheric Waves Experiment has completed the on-orbit data collection phase of its mission. The mission will continue with processing and analyzing images collected during the 30-month on-orbit phase.
At 17:04 Coordinated Universal Time on May 21, NASA and ground operators at SDL gave final approval to power down the AWE instrument, which theoperators implemented and placed the instrument in a safe configuration, signaling the end of its on-orbit mission.
SDL built the AWE instrument and manages the mission for NASA, partnering with USU Physics Professor Ludger Scherliess, the mission's principal investigator, as well as co-investigators and a multidisciplinary engineering team.
AWE is an International Space Station-mounted Heliophysics Mission of Opportunity designed to study atmospheric gravity waves by imaging Earth's faint airglow and quantifying how energy and momentum propagate from terrestrial weather into the upper atmosphere, where impacts can couple into space weather conditions. The mission builds on the life's work of late USU Professor Michael Taylor, a pioneer in the study of atmospheric gravity waves that included a heritage of more than two decades of airborne observations.
Understanding space weather disturbances is important because conditions in the ionosphere, roughly 50 to 400 miles above Earth's surface, influence the performance of satellite-based systems. Variations in atmospheric density and ionospheric structure can disrupt radio signals traveling between satellites and the ground, degrading the accuracy and reliability of navigation, communications and timing services. These effects can impact applications ubiquitous to everyday life, including GPS navigation, aviation operations, telecommunications networks and timing signals used in financial systems.
"During its initial 24-month mission, we've seen atmospheric wave signatures associated with major terrestrial events, including observations tied to Hurricane Helene on September 26, 2024, which provided a clear example of how intense weather systems can generate measurable upper-atmospheric responses," Scherliess said. "Data from AWE will continue to be made public for both professional researchers and citizen scientists."
Based on initial data releases, more than 50 science presentations have been delivered worldwide, and many scientific papers are in the process of being published.
The AWE instrument launched Nov. 9, 2023, and installation on the ISS exterior was completed shortly afterward. Following installation and activation, AWE achieved first light on Nov. 22, 2023, its first successful acquisition of gravity-wave imagery from its operational vantage point, confirming instrument performance in the space environment and enabling routine data collection.
"The SDL-built AWE instrument has captured more than 80 million nighttime images, when airglow can be seen, from over 14,000 orbits that are providing new insights into how weather phenomena in Earth's atmosphere interact with the upper atmosphere and space weather," said AWE Project Manager Russ Kirkham. "SDL has been proud to work with NASA's Heliophysics Division, Professor Scherliess, and the science team from USU, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, University of Colorado Boulder, GATS Inc., the National Center for Atmospheric Research, and the Naval Research Laboratory to document atmospheric gravity waves from a global vantage point not previously available."
The AWE payload consists of a single instrument, the Advanced Mesospheric Temperature Mapper, attached to the ISS in a nadir-viewing configuration. The mapper consists of four infrared telescopes which measure emission lines of the hydroxyl (OH) band and the atmospheric background. The mapper has a wide field of view that enables data collection of atmospheric gravity waves in the mesopause. AWE measures the temperature disturbances in the OH layer, providing sufficient resolution and precision to measure the size and motion of the waves.
The ISS robotic arm, Canadarm2, will detach the AWE instrument from its location on the station and move it to a temporary location for transfer and disposal. AWE will be loaded into the unpressurized cargo module of a Space-X Dragon spacecraft with other retired station equipment. Once loaded, Dragon will undock from the ISS and perform a deorbit burn, separating the unpressurized portion to reenter Earth's atmosphere, where AWE will burn up during reentry.
AWE is a Mission of Opportunity under NASA's Heliophysics Explorers Program, which conducts innovative, streamlined scientific investigations by developing instrumentation to answer focused science questions that augment and complement the agency's larger missions. AWE was part of a fleet of heliophysics missions positioned at key places around the solar system, observing space weather from its start at the sun to its farthest reaches on the very edge of the sun's influence, the heliosphere -and key locations in between in space. This information not only teaches us more about our astrophysical neighborhood but helps protect astronauts and technology in space.
For more information about the AWE mission, visit www.awemission.org.
USU's Department of Physics is one of 13 academic departments in the College of Arts & Sciences. As part of a land-and space-grant university, the college is a hub where science, humanities and the arts intersect to provide students with durable skills, hands-on experiences and a broad academic foundation. The college fosters discovery, supports creativity and offers academic experiences that prepare students to face future challenges. For more information, visit www.physics.usu.edu.
Headquartered at Utah State University's Innovation Campus in North Logan, SDL is an independent nonprofit corporation owned by USU that solves technical challenges faced by the military, science community, and industry and supports NASA's vision to explore the secrets of the universe for the benefit of all. SDL has field offices in Albuquerque, New Mexico; Chantilly, Virginia; Huntsville, Alabama; Ogden, Utah; and Stafford, Virginia. For more information, visit https://www.sdl.usu.edu/.
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Original text here: https://www.usu.edu//today/story/nasas-atmospheric-waves-experiment-completes-on-orbit-data-collection
Henrik Plougmann Olsen appointed as new member of the University of Copenhagen Board
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, May 22 -- The University of Copenhagen posted the following news:
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Henrik Plougmann Olsen appointed as new member of the University of Copenhagen Board
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The University of Copenhagen has appointed Henrik Plougmann Olsen as a new member of the Board for a four-year term.
For the past four years, Henrik Plougmann Olsen has served as Chief Executive Officer of the utility company HOFOR. Prior to that, he was CEO of Metroselskabet and Hovedstadens Letbane, and a Director in the Finance Administration of the City of Copenhagen. He holds an MSc in Political Science from
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark, May 22 -- The University of Copenhagen posted the following news:
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Henrik Plougmann Olsen appointed as new member of the University of Copenhagen Board
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The University of Copenhagen has appointed Henrik Plougmann Olsen as a new member of the Board for a four-year term.
For the past four years, Henrik Plougmann Olsen has served as Chief Executive Officer of the utility company HOFOR. Prior to that, he was CEO of Metroselskabet and Hovedstadens Letbane, and a Director in the Finance Administration of the City of Copenhagen. He holds an MSc in Political Science fromthe University of Copenhagen.
"The University of Copenhagen is an exceptionally important and inspiring institution in our society, not only in educating future generations. The university also plays a central role in generating knowledge that is vital to public debate, societal development, and the creation of growth and jobs," he says.
The appointment was made by UCPH's appointment committee. Henrik Plougmann Olsen has previously been affiliated with the University in various roles, including as a member of the University of Copenhagen Assembly, a member of the Advisory Board of the Faculty of Social Sciences, and chair of the employer panel at the Department of Political Science.
"I look forward to working on topics ranging from student wellbeing to the university's ambitions for green transition. I am familiar with some of the challenges facing the university, including reduced admissions and the implementation of the Master's degree reform. I look forward to contributing to addressing these in a responsible way," says Henrik Plougmann Olsen.
Major strategic decisions ahead
In the coming years, the University of Copenhagen faces important strategic decisions regarding the development of campus areas and its building portfolio.
Chair of the Board, Merete Eldrup, who also chairs the appointment committee, emphasises the importance of strengthening the Board's overall competences:
"We had a very strong field of applicants, and in the selection process we focused on how the Board as a whole can best match the university's current strategic challenges. Henrik Plougmann Olsen brings solid leadership experience and strong competences in urban development and the management of complex property portfolios, which will be central for UCPH in the coming years. We very much look forward to welcoming him to the Board," says Merete Eldrup.
As the University's highest authority, the Board sets the overall framework for the organisation, long-term activities and development of the University.
Henrik Plougmann Olsen will replace Birgitte Vederso, who has served on the Board since 2018 and is therefore not eligible for reappointment.
The Board consists of six external and five internal members. As of 1 July 2026, the Board comprises: Merete Eldrup, Jan S. Hesthaven, Lars Rasmussen, Ulla Tofte, Ulrik Vestergaard Knudsen, Henrik Plougmann Olsen, Pia Quist, Jesper Grodal, Dorte Brix, Dogukan Jesper Gur, and Emma Due.
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Original text here: https://news.ku.dk/all_news/2026/05/henrik-plougmann-olsen-appointed-as-new-member-of-the-university-of-copenhagen-board/
Free University of Brussels-VUB: Strava Data Analysis Reveals Blind Spots in Brussels Cycling Policy
BRUSSELS, Belgium, May 22 (TNSjou) -- Free University of Brussels-VUB issued the following news release:
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Strava data analysis reveals blind spots in Brussels cycling policy
VUB study identifies the 30 busiest Brussels bottlenecks where bike lanes are missing
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Researchers from the Mobilise research group and the VUB's Data Analytics Laboratory have developed an innovative method to map the effectiveness of cycling infrastructure in the Brussels Capital Region. Researchers Sara and Floriano Tori bridged the gap between data science and mobility expertise to tackle this problem. By combining
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BRUSSELS, Belgium, May 22 (TNSjou) -- Free University of Brussels-VUB issued the following news release:
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Strava data analysis reveals blind spots in Brussels cycling policy
VUB study identifies the 30 busiest Brussels bottlenecks where bike lanes are missing
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Researchers from the Mobilise research group and the VUB's Data Analytics Laboratory have developed an innovative method to map the effectiveness of cycling infrastructure in the Brussels Capital Region. Researchers Sara and Floriano Tori bridged the gap between data science and mobility expertise to tackle this problem. By combiningstatic government data with anonymised data from the sports app Strava, they were able to identify the places without bike lanes where the need for safe, segregated infrastructure is highest. The results provide a concrete tool for policymakers to target limited budgets more effectively.
"Current planning of cycling infrastructure often relies on manual counts or a limited number of fixed counters," says Sara Tori. "In Brussels, there are currently only 18 such fixed counters, which, moreover, are only located in places where there are already separated cycle lanes. This creates a blind spot: people know how many people cycle on existing cycle lanes, but have no insight into traffic flows on roads where no safe infrastructure is yet in place."
"We wondered how to improve cycling infrastructure in a data-driven way, especially in a context of limited resources," Floriano Tori explains. "By establishing a link between the highly accurate fixed counters and Strava's widespread data, we were able to train a machine learning algorithm. This model can translate Strava activity on any Brussels street into realistic cycling volumes."
The research focused specifically on segments without separated bike lanes. Layering that data over the map of the Brussels Region, the team identified 30 critical locations where the passage of cyclists is similar to that on the city's busiest cycling routes.
The analysis revealed two types of priority zones:
1. Missing links: places where infrastructure is suddenly interrupted, such as along certain sections of the canal. Here, cyclists continue to use the route even when the cycle path stops.
2. New arteries: Streets like Dansaertstraat or Troonlaan, with large bicycle volumes but where safe segregated infrastructure is still missing on crucial segments.
Although Strava users are often a specific group (such as confident commuters travelling longer distances), the data offers a unique insight into the 'real' flow of cycling traffic.
With this research, mobility planners have an objective tool to maximise the 'Return on Investment' of new cycle lanes, where it is up to policymakers to identify what the return should be (increased safety, increased cycling volumes,...). Based on the results, the government can now invest further in those places where cyclists are already massively present today, but where their safety is not yet guaranteed.
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Reference:
Sara Tori, Floriano Tori, Vincent Ginis, Leveraging Strava Metro Data to enhance urban cycling infrastructure development in Brussels, Journal of Urban Mobility, Volume 9, 2026, 100211, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.urbmob.2026.100211
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Original text here: https://press.vub.ac.be/strava-data-analysis-reveals-blind-spots-in-brussels-cycling-policy
Bodies in fashion: Diversity is up, but the ideal stays the same
KONGENS LYNGBY, Denmark, May 22 -- The Technical University of Denmark posted the following news:
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Bodies in fashion: Diversity is up, but the ideal stays the same
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Fashion looks more diverse than ever, but the body ideal hasn't really changed in 25 years.
Tore Vind Jensen
Fashion and media have become visibly more diverse over the past quarter-century. Yet beneath that surface change, a new study suggests that the industry's central female body ideal has barely shifted.
A large-scale analysis of nearly 800,000 fashion images finds that while representation has broadened, the typical
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KONGENS LYNGBY, Denmark, May 22 -- The Technical University of Denmark posted the following news:
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Bodies in fashion: Diversity is up, but the ideal stays the same
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Fashion looks more diverse than ever, but the body ideal hasn't really changed in 25 years.
Tore Vind Jensen
Fashion and media have become visibly more diverse over the past quarter-century. Yet beneath that surface change, a new study suggests that the industry's central female body ideal has barely shifted.
A large-scale analysis of nearly 800,000 fashion images finds that while representation has broadened, the typicalfemale model body has remained remarkably stable, with non-white models 4.5 times more likely to also be plus size.
In the paper Cultural evolution of beauty standards, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), researchers analyzed 793,199 images from 2000 to 2024, drawn from fashion shows, advertisements, magazine covers, and editorial fashion coverage. Using computer vision, network analysis, and clinical population health data, they tracked how model body size has evolved over time, across regions, and within segments of the fashion industry. The primary focus of the research is on female models (see fact box).
Their main findings are unexpectedly simple. While a wider range of body types now appears in fashion imagery, the typical model's body has not changed. Diversity has increased through the inclusion of a small number of models at the extremes, rather than through a shift in that norm itself.
"On the mean, nothing happens. Everything is super stable," says Louis Boucherie, a researcher at DTU (the Technical University of Denmark), and lead author of the paper, co-authored with researchers in Denmark, the United States, and Austria (see fact box).
"When we then look at the change in variation, we find what you'd expect: body size diversity has grown. But when we look at how that variation is distributed, we can see that the middle stays stable. So, the change is happening at the outliers."
Plus size models and the population gap
To benchmark fashion against reality, the researchers compared US-based models with the US government's large-scale health survey (NHANES). The contrast is stark.
"When we compare the US models to the general US population, there is almost no overlap between the two. And if you look carefully, you see that even the plus size models are still below the average US body size. So, what the fashion industry calls plus size corresponds much more closely to the average American woman," Louis Boucherie.
In other words, even the models labeled as "plus size" are, on average, smaller than the typical adult woman in the general population. The overlap between fashion imagery and body sizes in the population remains extremely limited.
The researchers highlight that exposure to narrow body ideals has been repeatedly linked, in meta-analyses across genders and age groups, to body dissatisfaction, disordered eating, and psychological distress.
Intersectionality: the burden of representing diversity
The study also examines how different dimensions of diversity intersect. As it turns out, ethnic representation in fashion imagery has changed markedly in the same 25-year period. The share of models identified as non white rose from roughly 13 percent in 2011 to more than 40 percent in recent years, according to the analysis.
"We don't have very fine grained racial categories in the data. We essentially must work with a white versus non white distinction, which is obviously a coarse way of doing it. But it's the only way to do the analysis consistently across the full dataset and over time," says Louis Boucherie.
The study finds that these two dimensions of diversity, body size and ethnicity, intersect rather than expand independently. And thus, a plus size model is 4.5 times more likely to be non-white, suggesting that multiple markers of difference are often concentrated in the same individuals. This means the industry's gains in diversity are intersectionally concentrated on the same individuals rather than broadly distributed.
"What these patterns of representation end up meaning is that the burden of representing diversity often falls on a relatively small group of non white models," says Louis Boucherie.
Fashion institutions can therefore increase visible diversity without altering the central aesthetic standard. However, not all parts of the fashion industry shape norms to the same degree. To examine whether these patterns differ across the industry, the researchers built a data-driven hierarchy of brands and magazines from the collaboration network, measuring status by which brands book the same models as other high-status players.
A distinctive pattern emerges at the top. High-prestige brands feature both the thinnest models and a higher share of visibly plus-size models than their less prestigious peers. This shows that the industry's evolution is heterogeneous: aggregate measures of diversity mask significant variation across prestige tiers.
Regulation: what has already been tried
The paper also explores whether formal regulation has influenced model selection. It examines two contrasting European interventions: a hard, numerical minimum body mass index requirement enforced at Milan Fashion Week, and a softer, certification-based system implemented in France.
The researchers compare how these differing regulatory designs coincided with changes in the prevalence of extremely thin models over time, explains Louis Boucherie:
"What we see is that in Milan, where there was a hard numerical threshold, there is a clear reduction in the number of extremely thin models after the regulation was introduced. In France, however, where the regulation was much softer and based on doctor certification, we don't see the same kind of effect. We're very careful not to claim causality here, but descriptively the difference between a hard threshold and a flexible system is quite striking."
The researchers emphasize that the analysis identifies correlations rather than causal effects. Still, the contrast suggests that the design of regulatory interventions may matter for how body ideals are expressed in fashion imagery.
Progress with limits
Taken together, the findings point to a paradox at the heart of contemporary fashion culture. Representation has broadened, and diversity has increased in visible ways. Yet the core definition of what counts as a normative or aspirational body has proven far more resistant to change, which suggests that inclusion alone does not necessarily reshape standards.
Shifting cultural norms may require change not just at the margins, but at the center of the industry itself.
"I think people already knew there was a problem, which has been debated repeatedly. What we've done is to quantify it. And I think that's the new part. We're just here to say that there is this problem, and then it's the responsibility of the advertisers and the people organizing fashion shows and editing magazines to decide what to do with that information," says Louis Boucherie.
About the paper
What about male models?
The study also includes male models, and the analysis shows that patterns differ from those observed for women. While male fashion imagery likewise exhibits very narrow and idealized body standards, changes over time are less pronounced, both in terms of body size and diversity.
The researchers found no comparable expansion in variation among male models and noted that the fashion industry's male body ideal appears more stable and less contested over the period studied. Statistically, however, there is less signal to analyze.
As a result, the authors focus primarily on women's fashion imagery, where both the scale of change and its social implications are more clearly detectable in the data.
About the paper:
Read the paper: Cultural evolution of beauty standards | PNAS
For a visual representation of the data, see Who Gets to Be Beautiful?
Authors:
* Louis Boucherie: DTU Compute, the Technical University of Denmark, and Center for Social Data Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
* Sagar Kumar: Network Science Institute, Northeastern University, Boston, USA.
* Katharina Ledebur: Complexity Science Hub, Austria.
* August Lohse: DTU Compute, Denmark.
* Karolina Sliwa: WU Vienna, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria.
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Original text here: https://www.dtu.dk/english/news/all-news/bodies-in-fashion-diversity-is-up-but-the-ideal-stays-the-same?id=22b0ee6d-25b1-4513-a529-905b7c435e78
AI-Driven Surgical Reporting Reduces Documentation Time by 70%, Desai Sethi Urology Institute Reports at AUA 2026
MIAMI, Florida, May 22 -- The University of Miami Miller School of Medicine posted the following news:
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AI-Driven Surgical Reporting Reduces Documentation Time by 70%, Desai Sethi Urology Institute Reports at AUA 2026
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At the American Urological Association's 2026 meeting, Archan Khandekar, M.D., shared early clinical results showing how AI-powered operative reporting significantly streamlines surgical documentation and captures critical procedural details.
Archan Khandekar, M.D., assistant professor of urologic oncology at Desai Sethi Urology Institute (DSUI), part of the University
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MIAMI, Florida, May 22 -- The University of Miami Miller School of Medicine posted the following news:
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AI-Driven Surgical Reporting Reduces Documentation Time by 70%, Desai Sethi Urology Institute Reports at AUA 2026
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At the American Urological Association's 2026 meeting, Archan Khandekar, M.D., shared early clinical results showing how AI-powered operative reporting significantly streamlines surgical documentation and captures critical procedural details.
Archan Khandekar, M.D., assistant professor of urologic oncology at Desai Sethi Urology Institute (DSUI), part of the Universityof Miami Miller School of Medicine, shared DSUI's analysis of 20 surgical cases using a computer vision-based operative report generation system at the American Urological Association (AUA) 2026 meeting.
Dr. Khandekar presented "AI-Driven Automation for Enhanced Productivity in Surgical Clinical Research," which centers on DSUI's implementation of an AI-powered surgery-to-text platform. It is the first computer vision-based operative report generation system with native Epic electronic health record integration, according to Dr. Khandekar.
"The system uses video transformer networks and attention-based architectures to perform real-time surgical step segmentation, instrument tracking and anatomical landmark detection from robotic surgical video," Dr. Khandekar said. "These outputs feed a large language model pipeline that generates structured operative narratives directly within Epic."
AI Automation Cuts Operative Documentation Time by 70%
Phase one of the planned multispecialty rollout of the technology across UHealth -University of Miami Health System showed:
* AI-generated operative templates were successfully produced for all 20 cases.
* The mean time to final operative note decreased by 70%, compared with manual documentation.
* Templates required a median of six surgeon edits, primarily addressing vascular mislabeling (e.g., artery-vein distinction).
* The system consistently captured secondary procedures, instrument use and anatomic variations that are often missed in standard dictation.
* Surgeons reported rapid adoption with no workflow disruption.
From Innovation to Clinical Implementation
The research builds on Dr. Khandekar's earlier validation of computer vision for automated warm ischemia time measurement during robotic partial nephrectomy, published in BJUI Compass. The work also is evidence of DSUI's ongoing development of data pipelines that connect surgical video intelligence with structured electronic health record data to support quality improvement and outcomes research.
"Compared with prior years, our work has moved from evaluating new technologies to testing them in real clinical settings, and DSUI is leading the way," Dr. Khandekar said. "The emphasis now is on validation and understanding what works reliably and where these tools can make a meaningful difference in urologic care."
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Original text here: https://news.med.miami.edu/ai-surgical-reporting-reduces-documentation-time-aua-2026-khandekar/
