Norwalk-like viral gastroenteritis outbreak in U.S. Army trainees.

An outbreak of acute gastroenteritis hospitalized 99 (12%) of 835 U. S. Army trainees at Fort Bliss, El Paso, Texas, from August 27 to September 1, 1998. Reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction tests for Norwalk-like virus were positive for genogroup 2. Gastroenteritis was associated with one post dining facility and with soft drinks

“Working the System”—British American Tobacco's Influence on the European Union Treaty and Its Implications for Policy: An Analysis of Internal Tobacco Industry Documents

Katherine Smith and colleagues investigate the ways in which British American Tobacco influenced the European Union Treaty so that new EU policies advance the interests of major corporations, including those that produce products damaging to health

Beyond the discipline : mapping and developing WIL across transdisciplinary curricula

Rapid changes to the world of work means new university graduates will enter career paths that are unlikely to be linear, and students therefore require a diverse set of skills to maintain employability. One way to develop these skills is to move beyond a discipline and engage students in a transdisciplinary curriculum that introduces opportunities to ‘creatively…transform and apply knowledge and skills across multiple disciplinary contexts’ (Barrie, 2020). Work Integrated Learning (WIL) is ideally placed as the pedagogical tool to allow students to do this. While WIL is often framed in a disciplinary context, multidisciplinary activities can allow students to develop key future work skills (Piggott, 2020). To give all students the opportunity to learn skills outside their discipline we developed two transdisciplinary minors with a STEM theme, but utilising subjects from different disciplines. We then examined how WIL was developed across the individual subjects. Through analysis of subject learning materials and focused interviews with subject coordinators we mapped WIL activities occurring in each subject to a recently developed WIL activity rubric (Jones, 2019). We found that similar WIL activities occurred across the different subjects, even though they were framed in different contexts. Mapping across each minor allowed us to identify gaps where we could utilise industry partners to enhance and broaden WIL activities. By identifying WIL activities occurring in the minors and then making them explicit to students we have unlocked the potential of WIL to allow students to apply their knowledge in diverse disciplinary contexts