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Kevin Shenderov, a senior in the College of Arts and Science, has been awarded a Rhodes Scholarship for 2007. An immigrant from the Ukraine and a resident of Brooklyn since 1990, Shendeov is a biochemistry major who has conducted immunology research at Oxford, Memorial Sloan-Kettering, and the NYU Medical Center.
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by Ami Finkelthal
Are low-tar cigarettes less hazardous to health than regular cigarettes? Although some studies suggest low-tar cigarette smoke is slightly less toxic, the research has been limited to tobacco’s effects on laboratory animals.
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by Barbara Jester
“Diagnosis does not equal prognosis,” says Deborah Padgett, professor of social work and principal investigator of a four-year all-qualitative study funded by the National Institutes of Mental Health. The New York Services Study is examining services and recovery from the perspective of homeless adults with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders.
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Women’s math and spatial reasoning performance significantly improves when they are not worried about confirming negative gender stereotypes. By contrast, men’s math and spatial reasoning performance improves when they are reminded of the positive stereotypes associated with their gender. The research was conducted by NYU’s Joshua Aronson, a professor in the Department of Applied Psychology in the Steinhardt School, and Matthew McGlone, an assistant professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Texas. The findings appeared this fall in the
Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology.
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