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A video game can change the brain, may improve empathy in middle schoolers
Professor’s innovations changed how children learn math
Tom Carpenter, whose student-centered ideas about teaching math to children helped transform mathematics education, died Aug. 7.
Tong family makes million-dollar gift towards realization of Hoofer marina project
Is fire the new normal in the American West?
In a video, Professor Monica Turner and her research team and colleagues explore how the patterns of fire and recovery are changing, particularly as the climate warms and drought becomes more common.
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