Innovation and Research

6+ hour, 39+ min ago   (653+ words) Healthcare communicators have always had one primary objective: help people understand complex science well enough to make informed decisions. That mission isn’t changing. What is changing is where understanding begins. This collective body of information, the healthcare information ecosystem, is…...

10+ hour, 44+ min ago   (419+ words) The University of Alabama received more than $2.1 billion in charitable commitments during a 10-year fundraising campaign, the university announced Monday. The Rising Tide 2.0 campaign was the largest higher education fundraising campaign in Alabama history, according to UA. University officials said…...

3+ hour, 46+ min ago   (211+ words) Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix has received another $25.3 million from the National Institutes of Health to continue its work on ALS, pushing the federal government's total investment in the research consortium it co-leads to $76.5 million. The new funding extends the…...

3+ hour, 11+ min ago   (429+ words) The newly acquired instrument is hosted at the College of Pharmacy’s Analytical and Translational Pharmacology (ATP) Laboratory. Mackenzie Cottrell, Pharm.D., M.S., heads the lab and serves as the college’s Director of Drug Development. The ATP Laboratory aims to make…...

9+ hour, 3+ min ago   (423+ words) Discover what’s coming to Microsoft Ignite, Nov 17-20, 2026. Register now. Managing that complexity is what Microsoft Dynamics 365 is built for, and Microsoft has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide AI-Enabled Operational ERP 2026 Vendor Assessment.¹ The assessment evaluates vendors…...

4+ hour, 42+ min ago   (171+ words) NIH study involves members of well-known Colombian kindred at nearly certain genetic risk for early-onset Alzheimer’s disease The novel study is recruiting participants from the Colombian autosomal dominant Alzheimer’s disease (ADAD) kindred, the world’s largest group of individuals who have…...

5+ hour, 16+ min ago   (228+ words) by Talk Business & Politics staff 4 seconds ago 0 views Little Rock-based Windgate Foundation recently gave $1.5 million to the College of Education and Health Professions at the University of Arkansas to establish the Windgate Endowed Chair in STEAM Education. STEAM stands for…...

6+ hour, 43+ min ago   (343+ words) JONESBORO, Ark. — Arkansas State University has received a $2.1 million federal award from the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to expand artificial intelligence and advanced manufacturing capabilities at the Center for Advanced Materials and Steel…...

7+ hour, 16+ min ago   (435+ words) The Neighborhoods study, which involves 22 Alzheimer’s Disease Research Centers across the country, received $30.9 million in funding for research on environmental factors and their correlation to Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD). The researchers use the social exposome to describe environmental…...

2+ hour, 50+ min ago   (609+ words) A survey of 600 US pediatric prescribers finds that legal uncertainty, practice setting, and beliefs about medication, rather than clinician type, determine whether adolescents with opioid use disorder receive buprenorphine....