Day: April 29, 2024

GREEN BAY (WLUK) — A local non-profit organization is benefitting from a $10,000 grant from a philanthropy class at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. Students in the “Philanthropy: Civic Engagement Through Giving” course, alongside Associate Professor Lora Warner, presented a $10,000 check Thursday to this year’s recipient. A local non-profit organization is benefitting from a…

DURHAM, N.H. — People’s language and beliefs contribute to the societal use of pronouns of “he,” “she,” and “they,” according to a new university study. Research at the University of New Hampshire looked at the use of pronouns in two different languages — including one where all pronouns are identity neutral — and found that…

Summary: Researchers conducted a study examining the impact of language and ideological beliefs on pronoun usage. The study, which compared pronoun use in English, a language with gender-specific pronouns, and Turkish, which uses gender-neutral pronouns, found that pronoun preferences align closely with each language’s structure. Additionally, individuals with more essentialist views on identity were more…