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CSAR lecture: The transformative power of empathy for education: reflection and realisation for teaching and learning

Empathy is a facilitator of social, emotional, and cognitive wellbeing and achievement that can actualise teaching, learning and the self. I will present some of my research in empathy over the last three decades from the Institute of Psychiatry King’s College London to the Faculty of Education University of Cambridge, including early childhood empathy, pupil voice, teacher-pupil engagement, creativity in the classroom, and the most recent work using empathy interventions in schools that has shown an increase in empathic awareness, wellbeing and school engagement.

• Speaker: Dr Helen Demetriou, Associate Professor of Psychology and Education, University of Cambridge
• Monday 12 May 2025, 19:30-21:00
• Venue: Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.
• Series: Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR); organiser: John Cook.

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CSAR lecture: AI in Manufacturing

Opportunities and Challenges for AI in Manufacturing.

All welcome. More details, including a booking link, are here.

• Speaker: Professor Sebastian Pattinson, Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge
• Monday 10 March 2025, 19:30-21:00
• Venue: Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.
• Series: Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR); organiser: John Cook.

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Highly concentrated solutions of asymmetric semiconductor magic-sized clusters (MSCs) of cadmium sulfide, cadmium selenide, and cadmium telluride were directed through a controlled drying meniscus front, resulting in the formation of chiral MSC ...

Studying the functional consequences of structural variants (SVs) in mammalian genomes is challenging because (i) SVs arise much less commonly than single-nucleotide variants or small indels and (ii) methods to generate, map, and characterize SVs in ...

We lack tools to edit DNA sequences at scales necessary to study 99% of the human genome that is noncoding. To address this gap, we applied CRISPR prime editing to insert recombination handles into repetitive sequences, up to 1697 per cell line, which ...

Itch is a dominant symptom in dermatitis, and scratching promotes cutaneous inflammation, thereby worsening disease. However, the mechanisms through which scratching exacerbates inflammation and whether scratching provides benefit to the host are largely ...

Social animals live in groups and interact volitionally in complex ways. However, little is known about neural responses under such natural conditions. Here, we investigated hippocampal CA1 neurons in a mixed-sex group of five to 10 freely behaving wild ...

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In her Letter on behalf of the American Nuclear Society (ANS), Marshall suggests that the United States should not unilaterally determine security policy with regard to high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU). However, it is established by international treaty that nuclear security is the sovereign responsibility of individual states (1). It is also incumbent on the United States to help inform the development of international standards by carrying out early studies. This has historically been the case, as, for example, when the United States initially established standards to restrict the dissemination of HALEU to quantities less than the amount sufficient to make a nuclear weapon (2).

In their Policy Forum “The weapons potential of high-assay low-enriched uranium” (7 June 2024, p. 1071), R. S. Kemp et al. describe the potential misuse of high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU). The American Nuclear Society (ANS)—a professional nuclear science and technology society representing more than 10,000 members worldwide—acknowledges the importance of continually evaluating the proliferation risks associated with nuclear materials. However, we disagree with Kemp et al.’s implied recommendation that the United States decide international nuclear security policy by unilaterally redefining HALEU enriched above 10% as “weapons usable.” ANS’s position on HALEU aligns with the stance of the United Nations’ International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA): HALEU enriched up to 20% is not considered “direct-use” material (1).

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