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University of Kansas Medical Center: Early Clinical Trial Results On A New Alzheimer's Drug May Point To New Treatments

KANSAS CITY, Kansas, Sept. 30 (TNSres) -- The University of Kansas Medical Center issued the following news:

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Jeffrey Burns, co-director of the KU Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, says early results of studies on lecanemab are promising.

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Alzheimer's researchers, including those at the University of Kansas Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, are cautiously optimistic about the early results of a drug announced earlier this week by drugmaker Biogen and its partner, Eisai.

Lecanemab has shown promising results in slowing Alzheimer's in its early stages, according to documents ... Show Full Article KANSAS CITY, Kansas, Sept. 30 (TNSres) -- The University of Kansas Medical Center issued the following news: * * * Jeffrey Burns, co-director of the KU Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, says early results of studies on lecanemab are promising. * * * Alzheimer's researchers, including those at the University of Kansas Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, are cautiously optimistic about the early results of a drug announced earlier this week by drugmaker Biogen and its partner, Eisai. Lecanemab has shown promising results in slowing Alzheimer's in its early stages, according to documentsreleased by the drug companies earlier this week. Jeffrey Burns, M.D., co-director of the KU Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (KU ADRC), is hopeful and excited, but cautious.

"This is a different drug than the one that was approved last year (aduhelm). It is in the same class and works the same way," Burns said, noting that both are monoclonal antibodies that target amyloid and both are delivered through infusion. Aduhelm was a point of controversy last year as it was relatively quickly approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), despite studies showing mixed results.

Burns points out that this latest drug, lecanemab, appears to slow disease progression in early stages of the disease. The drugmaker said early results showed that lecanemab reduced patient clinical decline by 27% when compared to a placebo after 18 months.

The results are not yet published in a peer-reviewed journal but were part of a company announcement of preliminary data.

"These are very promising early results," Burns said. "But it is not a cure. It does seem to have modest slowing of the disease in a way we haven't seen with other drugs."

A statement from the national Alzheimer's Association underlined the importance of the preliminary data. "These are the most encouraging results in clinical trials treating the underlying causes of Alzheimer's to date. These results indicate lecanemab may give people more time at or near their full abilities to participate in daily life, remain independent and make future health care decisions."

Researchers at the KU ADRC are testing lecanemab, and Burns notes that additional studies are likely to continue. The drug companies have said they plan to publish and present additional data, likely asking the FDA to approve the drug by March of 2023.

"I'm hopeful that this drug may be approved for use in patients with very early Alzheimer's and mild cognitive impairment by next year. At that time. we will have more answers around costs, potential dosage and eligibility." Burns said. "We need as many tools to slow the disease as possible."

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Original text here: https://www.kumc.edu/about/news/news-archive/alzheimers-drug-lecanemab.html

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University of Arkansas-Little Rock: Leiterman Hopes To Inspire Girls To Pursue Cybersecurity Careers Through Oct. 11 Event

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, Sept. 30 (TNSconf) -- The University of Arkansas issued the following news:

Sandra Leiterman, managing director of the UA Little Rock Cyber Arena, knows how important it is to inspire girls who are interested in studying careers in technology.

The professional industry has a limited number of women in the field, and many girls lose interest during the formative junior high and high school years. That's what Leiterman is hoping to change during an Empowering Women in Cybersecurity Summit.

"Women currently only represent 11% of the cybersecurity field, so we hope events ... Show Full Article LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, Sept. 30 (TNSconf) -- The University of Arkansas issued the following news: Sandra Leiterman, managing director of the UA Little Rock Cyber Arena, knows how important it is to inspire girls who are interested in studying careers in technology. The professional industry has a limited number of women in the field, and many girls lose interest during the formative junior high and high school years. That's what Leiterman is hoping to change during an Empowering Women in Cybersecurity Summit. "Women currently only represent 11% of the cybersecurity field, so we hope eventslike this will inspire girls who are interested in cybersecurity and technology careers to pursue their dreams," she said.

She is one of four women leaders who are planning the Oct. 11 event. The rest of the leadership team includes Tina Moore, director of STEM/Computer Science Continuum for the Arkansas Department of Education, Mary Beth Hatch, coordinator of school innovation for the North Little Rock School District, and Errin Stanger, director of the Innovation Hub.

The free event will be held in person at the Innovation Hub, 204 E. 4th St. in North Little Rock, and online via Zoom from 6-8 p.m. Oct. 11. The event celebrates both International Day of the Girl and Cybersecurity Awareness Month.

The cybersecurity workshop is open to girls in grades 6-12. The event is a perfect fit for girls interested in exploring cybersecurity and technology related careers. Those interested may register via this online form.

Girls attending the cybersecurity workshop will meet female cybersecurity experts, participate in hands-on cybersecurity related activities led by cybersecurity professionals, and learn about cybersecurity education and career options.

The event's keynote speaker is Hope Goins, majority staff director of the United States House of Representatives Committee on Homeland Security. She serves as Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson's top advisor on the oversight of the Department of Homeland Security and national security throughout the Executive Branch. With over a decade of Capitol Hill experience, Goins has supervised the negotiation of key homeland security legislation, including the authorization of the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office at DHS and the DHS Cybersecurity Strategies Act.

Other presenters for the event include the Little Rock Air Force Base Cybersecurity Squadron, Arkansas Department of Education Computer Science Team, Starbase Arkansas, Becky Passmore, a UA Little Rock adjunct computer science professor and cyber investigator at Kroll Industries, and Lauren Lantz, lead instructor for Full Stack Academy.

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Original text here: https://ualr.edu/news/2022/09/29/cybersecurity-careers/

Pomona College Welcomes New Faculty Members

CLAREMONT, California, Sept. 30 (TNSper) -- Pomona College issued the following news:

Pomona College welcomes eight new faculty to tenure-track and tenured positions this fall. Several have been teaching at the College as postdoctoral fellows, lecturers and visiting professors; one is returning to the College as an alumna; and three are new to Pomona.

Malachai Bandy, assistant professor of music, has a vibrant performing career on many historical instruments, including the viola da gamba, violone and Renaissance double reeds. His current scholarly projects concern musical expressions of occult ... Show Full Article CLAREMONT, California, Sept. 30 (TNSper) -- Pomona College issued the following news: Pomona College welcomes eight new faculty to tenure-track and tenured positions this fall. Several have been teaching at the College as postdoctoral fellows, lecturers and visiting professors; one is returning to the College as an alumna; and three are new to Pomona. Malachai Bandy, assistant professor of music, has a vibrant performing career on many historical instruments, including the viola da gamba, violone and Renaissance double reeds. His current scholarly projects concern musical expressions of occultphilosophy and number symbolism in the North-German Baroque, as well as viola da gamba technique, repertoire and iconography. As a lecturer at Pomona the last two years, he taught several courses, including Listening to Queer Voices: Radical Identities, Performance, and Transgression in Music, from Hildegard to House, which he is also teaching this semester in addition to Engaging Music.

Cristina T. Bejarano, assistant professor of anthropology, works in the areas of medical anthropology and science and technology studies. She conducts research on biomedical practices, technologies and infrastructures in Mexico. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Academies of Science Ford Foundation. As a Mellon Chau Postdoctoral Fellow and visiting professor at Pomona the last four years, she has taught Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology, Medical Anthropology, and Science, Medicine, and Technology.

Shannon Burns '15, assistant professor of psychological science and neuroscience, graduated from Pomona with a major in psychology and received a Ph.D. in social psychology from UCLA. Her research interests largely center on investigating the neural and behavioral dynamics of interpersonal collaboration and coordination--how people's affective and cognitive content align, how they exchange and distribute information in team contexts, and how these findings can be used to improve interpersonal communication.

Chanchal Dadlani, professor of art history, specializes in Islamic and South Asian art. This semester she is teaching Building Empires as well as South Asian Art & Architecture. Her first book, From Stone to Paper: Architecture as History in the Late Mughal Empire (Yale University Press, 2018), received the Society of Architectural Historians' Mellon Author Award and distinctions from the College Art Association and Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. She has taught at Wake Forest University and Columbia University.

Esther Hernandez-Medina, assistant professor of gender and women's studies and Latin American studies, is a feminist academic, public policy expert and activist from the Dominican Republic. She was a visiting lecturer and visiting assistant professor at Pomona since spring 2019, during which she taught classes including Sociology through Literature, Globalizing Participation, and Women and Power in Latin America. She is currently teaching Introduction to Gender and Women's Studies and The Right to Choose? Abortion Rights in Latin America and the US.

Jun Lang, assistant professor of Asian languages and literatures, received a Ph.D. in East Asian Linguistics from the University of Oregon, where she taught Languages and Societies of East Asia and Chinese language courses at all levels. Prior to joining Pomona, she taught at the University of Richmond, the United States Naval Academy Chinese summer program, the University of Wisconsin-Madison Chinese summer program, and the China Studies Institute at Peking University. Her research interests include language and gender, second language acquisition, sociolinguistics, and cognitive linguistics.

Preston McBride, assistant professor of history, will serve as the early U.S. specialist in the history department. He earned his Ph.D. in history at UCLA, where his dissertation focused on diseases and deaths in Native American boarding schools. As a postdoctoral fellow and lecturer at Dartmouth College and the University of Southern California, he taught classes on Native American history and researched the history of Native American education in the United States.

Bilal Nasir, assistant professor of Asian American studies, is a South Asian American and critical Muslim studies specialist. He researches race, policing and surveillance, social movements, and the anthropology of Muslims and Islam in the United States. As a Chau Mellon postdoctoral fellow at the College the last two years, he taught Islamophobia and its Discontents as well as South Asian American Studies.

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Original text here: https://www.pomona.edu/news/2022/09/29-pomona-college-welcomes-new-faculty-members

Making The Grade: MSU Scientists Apply High-Resolution Imaging Technology To Detect Poultry Quality Defects

STARKVILLE, Mississippi, Sept. 30 (TNSres) -- The Mississippi State University issued the following news:

Mississippi State scientists are applying powerful imaging technology that detects subsurface bruising in fruits as a potential way to identify and grade meat quality defects in poultry.

With the goal of developing an automated, reliable method with less human error than manual inspection, MSU scientists with the Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station are conducting research on the feasibility of sinusoidal-illumination imaging, or SII technology, as that novel tool. The ... Show Full Article STARKVILLE, Mississippi, Sept. 30 (TNSres) -- The Mississippi State University issued the following news: Mississippi State scientists are applying powerful imaging technology that detects subsurface bruising in fruits as a potential way to identify and grade meat quality defects in poultry. With the goal of developing an automated, reliable method with less human error than manual inspection, MSU scientists with the Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station are conducting research on the feasibility of sinusoidal-illumination imaging, or SII technology, as that novel tool. Theproject is funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture.

"If we are successful, this will save time, labor and money by establishing a more consistent way to ensure food quality. Food safety and quality issues can affect the profitability and sustainability of Mississippi's top industry and America's most consumed meat," said Anuraj Sukumaran, an MSU Department of Poultry Science assistant professor and the study's co-principal investigator. "In poultry, the quality issues and defects that affect broiler meat are woody-breast, white striping and spaghetti meat. We're developing and utilizing the SII imaging technique that aims to detect these defects in broiler meat on processing lines."

Mississippi's poultry industry, with an estimated economic impact of about $20 billion, currently uses manual inspection as the standard for finding defects, with employees inspecting carcasses and separating, one-by-one, the flawed meat from clean meat. A labor-intensive process subject to human evaluation error, manual inspection also has seen recent issues due to industry work shortages. Poultry is evaluated in accordance with national standards as U.S. Grade A, B or C.

Sukumaran said, "Our preliminary imaging results showed that the technology clearly differentiates the four different severity levels of white striping, so that is really promising. We are excited for what's to come; I expect this to be a great benefit to the industry."

With another year to go before concluding the results of this preliminary research, Yuzhen Lu, assistant professor in MSU's Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering and the project's principal investigator, along with Sukumaran, said they are anticipating the future.

"Our main goal is to ensure the feasibility of how reliable and consistent this technology and our techniques are when detecting all three defects and their varying grades and levels of severity," Lu said. "After that, our goal is to expand this to a long-term project in which we focus on practical applications and machine learning to further automate and improve the process."

To learn more about the MSU Department of Poultry Science, visit poultry.msstate.edu. Visit the MSU Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering at abe.msstate.edu. To learn more about the Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station, visit mafes.msstate.edu.

MSU is Mississippi's leading university, available online at http://www.msstate.edu.

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Original text here: https://www.msstate.edu/newsroom/article/2022/09/making-grade-msu-scientists-apply-high-resolution-imaging-technology

K-State Strategic Enrollment Efforts Making Progress

MANHATTAN, Kansas, Sept. 30 -- Kansas State University issued the following news release:

Kansas State University is seeing returns on strategic enrollment management efforts with more diversity among new students and increases in new freshman, transfer and graduate enrollment.

New freshman enrollment for fall 2022 increased by 2.1% across all campuses, including an increase of 2.9% on the Manhattan campus. The university also increased new transfer student enrollment by 1.3% and new graduate student enrollment by 1.5%, both across all campuses.

"The growth in our new student enrollment is significant," ... Show Full Article MANHATTAN, Kansas, Sept. 30 -- Kansas State University issued the following news release: Kansas State University is seeing returns on strategic enrollment management efforts with more diversity among new students and increases in new freshman, transfer and graduate enrollment. New freshman enrollment for fall 2022 increased by 2.1% across all campuses, including an increase of 2.9% on the Manhattan campus. The university also increased new transfer student enrollment by 1.3% and new graduate student enrollment by 1.5%, both across all campuses. "The growth in our new student enrollment is significant,"said Karen Goos, vice provost for enrollment management. "This is one of our highest priorities at the university and is a sign that our strategic enrollment management efforts have us headed in the right direction."

Increasing the diversity of incoming classes is a goal of the Action Plan for a More Inclusive K-State and one the university is achieving and earning attention nationally. African American/Black student enrollment increased by 14% and new Hispanic student enrollment is up 6%. K-State was recently recognized by Campus Pride as one of the most LGBTQ+ friendly colleges in the nation and has received the Higher Education Excellence in Diversity Award for the ninth year in a row for its diversity and inclusion efforts.

"This year's freshman class is also academically strong, with an average GPA of 3.66, an average ACT score of 25.5 and an average SAT score of 1230, marking a 42-point increase," said Chuck Taber, K-State provost. "The first-time freshman retention rate also was sustained at 86.1%."

Taber noted that K-State has graduated a record number of students over the past several years, which contributes to the overall student enrollment decline of 2.5%. Fall 2022 student enrollment is 19,722 across all campuses.

While the Manhattan campus enrollment has declined by 4.4%, the university is seeing overall growth at its other campuses. K-State Salina, K-State Olathe and Global Campus realized overall enrollment increases of 7.3%, 2.4% and 5.8%, respectively.

Educational affordability is a priority of the university for long-term sustainable enrollment. K-State awards more than $72 million in general and merit-based scholarships annually as a commitment to providing opportunity and access to higher education. The university recently announced updates to its general scholarship program for in-state and out-of-state students beginning with the summer 2023 semester. Scholarships and grants will be automatically awarded when a student applies by the priority deadline. In-state students planning to attend the Manhattan, Salina or Olathe campuses are eligible for GPA-based and/or test-optional scholarships. The new Wildcat Nonresident Award offers high-performing out-of-state students in-state or highly reduced out-of-state tuition. In addition, the Land Grant Promise grant provides eligible, in-state students with a tuition-free path toward undergraduate education at K-State.

Goos said students and families recognize the value of a K-State degree.

"We have worked hard at connecting prospective students to the university," Goos said. "The university provides a unique student-centered educational experience through active learning, meaningful research, civic engagement and leadership development that prepare graduates to contribute to society and improve their career prospects. We are pleased to see students from all over the world have chosen K-State to achieve their academic goals."

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Original text here: https://www.k-state.edu/media/newsreleases/2022-09/fall-enrollment92922.html

Indiana University Law School: Civil Practice Clinic Student Takes Part In Argument In Indiana Court Of Appeals

INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, Sept. 30 (TNSgov) -- The Indiana University McKinney School of Law issued the following news:

IU McKinney Civil Practice Clinic student Anna Cron took part in an oral argument before the Indiana Court of Appeals in the case, Deon Wilford v. State of Indiana. The argument took place September 12.

Cron was one of the students who helped draft an amicus brief in the case during the spring 2022 semester.

The clinic, as part of its work during the academic year, routinely checks for appeals that are filed relating to expungements. If there is an appeal that presents an issue ... Show Full Article

CUNY Graduate Center Receives Funding For National Language Resource Center

NEW YORK, Sept. 30 (TNSfund) -- The City University of New York's Graduate Center issued the following news:

The CUNY Graduate Center's Institute for Language Education in Transcultural Context (ILETC) was awarded a second round of funding from the U.S. Department of Education's Title VI Language Resource Centers program, totaling $630,000 over the next four years for its Center for Integrated Communities (CILC). The Department of Education's competitive grant program aims to establish, enhance, and operate centers to improve the nation's capacity for teaching languages other than English. CILC ... Show Full Article

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