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  • Reading, Writing, Required Silence: How Meditation is Changing Schools and Students

    June 12, 2015 |

    The Huffington Post |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Silence can be hard to come by for students at New York City schools, contributing to increased stress. Some schools in New York are incorporating meditation to give their students time to relax and calm their inner minds after studying all day.

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  • Once forced to study in secret, this Indian professor inspires a generation of female students

    June 08, 2015 |

    Public Radio International (PRI) |

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    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: India, Jaisalmer, Rajasthan

    Rama Arora defied tradition and secretly pursued her PhD as a young woman in India, succeeding at becoming the first female professor at a women's college. Now she is inspiring more Indian girls to further their educatione, so they can help bring about greater equality in society.

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  • Zanzibar's 'Solar Mamas' flip the switch on rural homes, gender roles

    June 05, 2015 |

    Public Radio International (PRI) |

    Multi-Media |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Tanzania, Matemwe, Zanzibar

    In Zanzibar, hundreds of households too poor and remote to have access to the electrical grid are getting low cost solar power for the first time, from a group of local female engineers trained by and Indian NGO. It's the first of several "solar mamas" projects planned for parts of rural Africa, and it's turning some traditional gender roles on their head.

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  • Climate Change-Ready Rice Keeps Farmers' Fields Fertile

    June 04, 2015 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: Bangladesh

    Soil in Bangladesh is becoming increasingly saline and infertile due to climate change. Bangladeshi farmers have begun using a saline-tolerant rice seed in order to produce an abundant crop despite salty soil.

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  • Wisconsin is learning how to die

    May 28, 2015 |

    Vox |

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    Response Location: United States, La Crosse, Wisconsin

    Encouraging conversations with doctors about end-of-life care helps to normalize the process for patients, and ultimately helps to reduce medical costs. The Respecting Choices program developed in La Crosse, Wisconsin, provides a model for doctors to follow in discussing end-of-life care with patients. Following the script helps patient’s engage in difficult conversations and allows doctors to make advanced planning a part of a patient’s medical record. Such planning also reduces end of life costs.

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  • An antidote to IS recruitment of women

    May 19, 2015 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: Morocco, Casablanca

    The Islamic State's recruitment of women draws big attention. But less noticed and more important are efforts in Islamic countries to raise the number of women in religious leadership, despite a long tradition against it, as a potential, effective antidote to the IS recruitment efforts – preventing young women (and men) from joining radical groups.

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  • Nepal's Renegade Strategy to Save Mothers

    May 15, 2015 |

    Foreign Policy |

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    Response Location: Nepal, Kathmandu, Central Region

    In Nepal, a controversial drug is proving to be effective in saving mother's lives. It's the only shelf-stable, easy-to-administer solution to curbing postpartum hemorrhage. In trials, misoprostol is shown to save the lives of women who live far from medical care facilities. Since Nepal allowed use of the drug, postpartum hemorrhage has fallen from the leading cause of maternal death to number two.

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  • How One Hospital Brought Its C-Section Rate Down In A Hurry

    May 10, 2015 |

    KQED |

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    Response Location: United States, Newport Beach, California

    Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian, under pressure from the insurance network to lower maternity costs, used a number of tools to lower the rate of cesarean sections done. The changes not only helped drastically reduce costs, but created a better, safer birth outcomes for patients.

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  • Showing doctors the way to lower cost, improved care

    May 06, 2015 |

    Southern California Public Radio (KPCC) |

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    Response Location: United States, Sacramento, California

    The United States health care system is expensive and enables doctors to prescribe costly brand name medication instead of generic versions. Sutter Health assembles its doctors a few times a week to review with electronic records the prescribing of brand name drugs and the necessity of procedures as an effort to reduce health care costs and to reduce unnecessary tests. In two years, the initiative has saved $30 million.

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  • How Students At Women's Colleges Are Working To Expand Our Understanding Of Gender

    May 06, 2015 |

    The Huffington Post |

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    Response Location: United States, Claremont, California

    Women's colleges are changing their definition of eligible students to include transgender and non-gender conforming students. Though policies differ from school to school, the impact is a nationwide reevaluation of the gender binary.

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