Wenner-Gren Foundation Supper Conference: The American Indian in Transition

Conference on american Indian science and health education.

The American Board of Family Medicine Foundation Inaugurates the G. Gayle Stephens Keystone Conference Series.

Dr. Gayle Stephens (August 6, 1928, to February 20, 2014), one of the founders of family medicine in the United States, provided consistent intellectual leadership that profoundly affected the specialty. He connected history, philosophy, religion, psychiatry, the family, the community, and the sciences to the practice of medicine, and he explained how family medicine was a “counterculture” with...

Do American Indian mascots = American Indian people? Examining implicit bias towards American Indian people and American Indian mascots.

Empirical examinations of American Indian (AI) mascots have only recently entered into the discourse of mainstream psychology. The present studies examined implicit attitudes of non-AI people towards AI mascots and the extent to which they are related to attitudes towards AI people. Significant concordance was observed between negative bias toward AI mascots and AI people. Negative AI mascot bi...

Parallel Simulation and Lotos: Research In Progress

This work was supported in part by Svenska institutet (The Swedish Institute), Stockholm, Sweden; Axel Wenner-Gren Stiftelse (The Axel Wenner-Gren Foundation for Scientific Research), Stockholm, Sweden; the Information Technology Research Centre (ITRC) of the Province of Ontario (Canada); and by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada. This report was prepared wh...

Indian Science in Transition

India is a country in transition, and so is its science. Scientific institutions, researchers, regulatory agencies, and government policies are in a state of flux as changes are instigated to overcome the bureaucracy and inertia that are characteristic of a populous developing nation.