91±¬ÁÏ

Skip to content

The latest news from the 91±¬ÁÏ

April 22, 2010

Maternal deaths fall worldwide from a half-million annually to fewer than 350,000

The number of women dying from pregnancy-related causes has dropped by more than 35 percent in the past 30 years — from more than a half-million deaths annually in 1980 to about 343,000 in 2008, according to a new study by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation <A href="http://www.

Etc.: Campus news & notes

COMPUTING CHAMPION: The Association for Computing Machinery has given Ed Lazowska, who holds the Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science & Engineering, its Distinguished Service award, recognizing his “wide-ranging service to the computing community and his longstanding advocacy for this community at the national level.