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New Study: Carle Illinois Neuroscience Challenge Lab Prepares Medical Students for Innovation and Entrepreneurship

New Study: Carle Illinois Neuroscience Challenge Lab Prepares Medical Students for Innovation and Entrepreneurship

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A new faculty-student research collaboration suggests that the Carle Illinois College of Medicine’s strategic use of practical challenges in neuroscience effectively stimulates innovation and entrepreneurial skills in medical students. The findings are specific to Carle Illinois’ engineering-infused program, the first of its kind, but may provide evidence for other new engineering-based medical schools on how …

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Food for thought: How can agriculture-focused entrepreneurship improve mental health and social good? | WRAL Tech Wire

Food for thought: How can agriculture-focused entrepreneurship improve mental health and social good? | WRAL Tech Wire

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Editor’s Note: Brock Pierce is Marketing Communications Manager at Innovate Carolina. +++ CHAPEL HILL – Have you ever thought of farmers as the ultimate entrepreneurs? Or considered how the food we eat can taste good and create social good at the same time? At a recent panel discussion hosted by Innovate Carolina at 79° West …

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Meet the barbers starting a conversation about mental health

Meet the barbers starting a conversation about mental health

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The Confess Project advocates for the mental health of black men across the United States by training barbers to listen to and support clients in crisis. Overcoming stigma and structural barriers to mental health care in the black community, its founder Lorenzo Lewis is transforming barbershops into community hubs where mental health awareness can flourish, …

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What Marilyn Monroe's life teaches us about mental health and success against the odds

What Marilyn Monroe’s life teaches us about mental health and success against the odds

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(Original caption) With her playwright husband, Arthur Miller, seated behind her, actress Marilyn … [+] Monroe smiles happily and waves to her admirers as she rides home from Doctor’s Hospital in an ambulance. Nine days ago, she underwent surgery to terminate a tubal pregnancy. She insisted on walking from the elevator to the ambulance to …

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