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Immigrant Families Placed In Detention Centers Face Health Care Challenges

The White House’s plan to indefinitely detain immigrant families together threatens the care of young children, experts worry, by placing them with an agency with little experience in handling such complex needs. Previously, the administration’s “zero-tolerance” immigration stance meant splitting children from parents, including 2,322 children 12 and under, and placing the children in facilities […]

Published on July 2, 2018

The gender bias of names: Surnames standing solo gives men advantage

In new research, Cornell University psychologists find that study participants, on average, were more than twice as likely to call male professionals — even fictional ones — by their last name only, compared to equivalent female professionals. This example of gender bias, say researchers, may be contributing to gender inequality. Read Full Article (External Site) […]

Published on July 2, 2018

Computer graphics research team to present new tool for sketching faces

Computer scientists have devised a sketch-based editing framework that enables a user to edit their photos by sketching a few strokes on top of them. Read Full Article (External Site) Dr. David LowemannDr. David Lowemann, M.Sc, Ph.D., is a co-founder of the Institute for the Future of Human Potential, where he leads the charge in […]

Published on July 2, 2018