WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 [Category: Sociological] -- The Council on American-Islamic Relations posted the following news release: * * * CAIR Calls on Feds to Consider Hate Crime Charges for Xenophobic, Anti-Asian Assault in Missouri The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today called on federal law enforcement authorities to consider hate crime charges for a Missouri man who allegedly attacked a shopper because he belie  more

COLUMBIA, Missouri, Feb. 24 [Category: Media] -- The Association of Health Care Journalists issued the following news: * * * How AI-based algorithms are changing health care: 3 story angles to consider Nearly five years ago, Emory University radiologist Judy Gichoya, M.D., spotted a call for research papers on health disparities. She and her colleagues set out to train a machine learning algorithm using a diverse set of medical images to show that using more inclusive data could lead to more   more

COLUMBIA, Missouri, Feb. 24 [Category: Media] -- The Association of Health Care Journalists issued the following news: * * * Let's correct misinformation about compounded drugs "Do you really know what you're injecting into your body?" So reads a scary Novo Nordisk ad that challenges the safety of compounded versions of its glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) drugs, Wegovy and Ozempic. Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly, which make the GLP-1 drugs Zepbound and Mounjaro, have been stoking fear about c  more

ROLLA, Missouri, Feb. 25 -- Missouri University of Science and Technology issued the following news: * * * Missouri S&T engineering management alumna elected to National Academy of Engineering Posted by Kaitlin Brothers Dr. Alice E. Smith, a 1991 Ph.D. graduate in engineering management from Missouri S&T, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). "It's not just a recognition," Smith says. "I'm really looking forward to being involved with the academy and bringing my p  more

MARYVILLE, Missouri, Feb. 25 -- Northwest Missouri State University issued the following news release: * * * Northwest awarded Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources grant Northwest Missouri State University recently received its first-ever Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) grant, which is helping local educators better understand how to teach with primary sources. Dr. Tina Ellsworth, an assistant professor of education, will manage Northwest's TPS project, "  more