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Students

Grants & Awards

Davidson College (N.C.) received a $4 million commitment from The Duke Endowment to renovate the James B. Duke Residence Hall and establish it as the permanent home of the college’s Dean Rusk International Studies Program. Jackson State University (Miss.) received a five-year, $5 million grant from former Netscape Corp. president and CEO James Barksdale to […]

September 21, 2005

Students

Grants & Awards

Duke University (N.C.) received more than $1.3 million from the estate of business leader Leo Brody to establish a scholarship fund for students from the Carolinas, with preference to those from eastern North Carolina. The gift will be matched by The Duke Endowment of Charlotte at a rate of $1 for every $2 given, bringing […]

September 7, 2005

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Arkansas Universities Offer to Take in Louisiana Students Displaced by Hurricane Katrina

Louisiana college students displaced by Hurricane Katrina because of major damage and destruction to their campuses can pick up Story:

September 1, 2005

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Robotic Baby Simulates Real-Life Medical

It coughs, grunts, cries, snores and responds to being touched. It wears a diaper and its mouth turns blue when it is experiencing trouble Story:

July 13, 2005

Health

Hampton University Center

Hampton University Center to Focus On Breast and Prostate Cancer ResearchHAMPTON, Va.  Hampton University is planning the construction of a 64,000-square-foot Biomedical Research Center on the university campus. Funded by HU and a federal government agency, the state-of-the-art facility will be an interdisciplinary center for biomedical researchers from both HU and the local region.HU’s Biomedical […]

February 23, 2005

Students

Playing Catch Up

Playing Catch UpWhenever I read about national shortages of qualified professionals in critical fields, such as health care and technology, I can’t help but think about the tragic legacy of segregation and discrimination in the United States. I believe that had African Americans enjoyed the full range of educational and career opportunities experienced by Whites […]

November 17, 2004

Health

NIH Funds Michigan Project to Improve Racial Disparities in Pregnancy Outcomes

NIH Funds Michigan Project to Improve Racial Disparities in Pregnancy OutcomesANN ARBOR, Mich.Black women are three times more likely than White women to die during pregnancy, and twice as many Black babies as White babies die in infancy. Yet researchers know little about why pregnancy and infant health differ by race, despite massive efforts to […]

November 3, 2004

Leadership & Policy

Fisk, Vanderbilt Collaborate on Nursing Program

Fisk, Vanderbilt Collaborate on Nursing ProgramNASHVILLE, Tenn.Fisk University will start an undergraduate nursing program as part of a new alliance with Vanderbilt University, which is looking to boost the ranks of minority graduate students.The alliance allows Fisk, a historically Black liberal arts college, to use the teaching facilities of Vanderbilt’s established nursing school. Vanderbilt School […]

July 16, 2004

Faculty & Staff

Scholars of Note: Chemical Engineering

Chemical EngineeringA Sense Of MasteryPaula Hammond CunninghamTitle: Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyEducation: Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology; M.S., Georgia Institute of Technology; S.B., Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyAge: 40Chemistry has been nearly a lifelong love for Dr. Paula Hammond Cunningham, but it wasn’t her first love. “I was into books and reading,” […]

January 14, 2004

HBCUs

Grants & Awards

Dillard University (La.) and the University of Colorado at Boulder received a $350,000 grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York to fund the second year of a unique partnership between the two universities that merges the institutions’ respective strengths in the humanities, mathematics, literature and information technology.  North Carolina Central University received a $658,000 grant from […]

August 13, 2003

Faculty & Staff

North Carolina Nursing Departments Launch Health Disparities Center

North Carolina Nursing Departments Launch Health Disparities Center DURHAM, N.C.The Departments of Nursing at North Carolina Central University and Winston-Salem State University and the School of Nursing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill recently launched the Center for Innovation in Health Disparities Research (CIHDR). The new center is one of eight university-partnered […]

March 26, 2003

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S.C. State Overhauls Troubled Nursing Program

S.C. State Overhauls Troubled Nursing Program ORANGEBURG, S.C.South Carolina State University has teamed up with two health schools to overhaul its troubled nursing program, which saw half of its graduates fail the state nursing exam last spring. The state Board of Nursing earlier this month approved the closing of the university’s old nursing program and […]

January 1, 2003