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From local happenings to national topics and global events, here is the news worth knowing from the week of July 10, 2023.
Local
The Association of Community Health Nursing Educators provided a grant for Wright State University professors of nursing, Ann Stalter, Ph.D., and Deborah Ulrich, Ph.D., to study teaching practices, according to a Wright State newsroom release.
“Research priorities include best practices for teaching future nurses, the impact of workplace and natural environmental exposures on human health and how best to approach policies aimed at improving population health outcomes,” the release reads.
National
On July 14, the House of Representatives passed a bill that would raise pay of servicepeople by 5.2%, ban critical race theory education in the military, end funding for diversity, equity and inclusion training and prevent a military Green New Deal, among other changes, according to a fact sheet from the House Armed Services Committee.
The bill passed with a vote of 219-210 and awaits Senatorial approval.
Global
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization summit meeting was in Vilnius, Lithuania, on July 11 and 12. At the summit, Allies agreed that Ukraine will become a member of NATO in a quick process, among other global defense and partnership plans.
“Allies agreed NATO’s most detailed and robust defense plans since the Cold War, strengthened their commitment to defense investment, agreed to bring Ukraine closer to NATO and deepened partnerships around the world,” a July 12 press release from NATO reads.
The next NATO summit will take place on July 9-11, 2024, in Washington, D.C.
