Education
JAM | Jul 9, 2023
Reading Time: 5 minutes Dr. Glen Christian, chairman of the Jamaica STEM for Growth Foundation, has posited the question, “How can we expect our companies to compete internationally when the majority of our students…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Dr. Asburn Pinnock, principal of The Mico University College, says that the field of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) should be used to solve the everyday problems faced by…
Reading Time: 3 minutes SANTIAGO (Reuters) A duck-billed herbivorous dinosaur roamed the ancient and remote river plains of Patagonia in southern Chile some 72 million years ago, a new study revealed on Friday (June…
Reading Time: 2 minutes To reach more students across Jamaica, the Scientific Research Council (SRC) is aiming to recruit 40 ambassadors for its Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Ambassadorship Programme. Launched during the…
Reading Time: 3 minutes An interdisciplinary group of researchers who worked collaboratively to address cancer and health disparities in patient populations of African descent, has received the prestigious American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)…
Reading Time: 3 minutes In a first in nearly nearly a decade, preliminary forecasts for the 2023 Hurricane Season are tentatively favourable for the tropical Atlantic. The Colorado State University (CSU), publishing its 40th…
Reading Time: 3 minutes The University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI) has a “competitive edge” in its operations with the latest technology, according to Medical Chief of Staff and Consultant Neurosurgeon, Dr. Carl…
Reading Time: < 1 minute The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Sunday (February 5) expressed its strong dissatisfaction and protest over the use of force by the United States side to attack an unmanned Chinese civilian…
Reading Time: 4 minutes (Reuters) NASA’s Orion capsule barreled through Earth’s atmosphere and splashed down in the Pacific ocean today (December 11) after making an uncrewed voyage around the moon, winding up the inaugural…
Reading Time: 6 minutes The Andrew Holness-led Government is being urged to do more at the local level to help Jamaica’s coral reefs survive climate change. The call comes as the Arizona-based Allen Coral…
Reading Time: 3 minutes The University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI) has reopened its Nuclear Medicine Division, which has been retrofitted with state-of-the-art single-photon emission computed tomography – SPECT-computed tomography (CT). This will…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Durrant Pate/Contributor A new study is supporting Jamaica’s drive to convert waste to energy, which is part of a proposed plan to privatise solid waste management services in the country….