Women's heart health. Life with intellectual disabilities. Portolese: portraits of women. The Rodrigues drone.

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• Cardiovascular Business picks up continuing coverage of a new study co-authored by Simon Bacon, professor in the Department of Exercise Science, Nicola Paine, a visiting postdoctoral scholar in the same department, and others, revealing how anxiety disorder may mask certain signs of heart disease in women.
• The Times of India (Kolkata) joins the worldwide media reporting on research led by Ann-Louise Davidson, associate professor in the Department of Education, on how mobile technologies can be used to help people with an intellectual disability (ID) face life's daily challenges. The study, published in Social Inclusion, involved the creation by people with ID of testimonial videos. The clips were posted to YouTube.
• The Suburban announces  a new exhibition of the work of photography associate professor Marisa Portolese at the FOFA Gallery, on now through April 8, titled Belle de jour III: Dialogues with Notman’s Portraits of Women. 
• The research of Luis Rodrigues, associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and member of CIADI, was featured on the Discovery Channel's Daily Planet last night. Rodrigues has partnered with the Hong Kong-based toy company, Wowwee, to produce a drone that chases a toy car.

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