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N.C., Maryland Schools to Create Health Disparities Research Centers

N.C., Maryland Schools to Create Health Disparities Research Centers CHAPEL HILL, N.C.Researchers from three North Carolina universities have received grants totaling $1.5 million from the National Institute of Nursing Research to create a Center for Innovation in Health Disparities Research. The National Institutes of Health agency funded three related grants to support the new center, […]

November 20, 2002

Colleges Win Grants to Promote Nursing Education

Colleges Win Grants to Promote Nursing EducationBy Charles Dervarics Black colleges are among 34 winners of new federal funds from the Department of Health and Human Services to promote nursing education, particularly among students of color. The $8.4 million in grants cover two categories — basic nursing education grants and grants to promote diversity in […]

November 6, 2002

Faculty & Staff

Speaking The Patient’s Language

Speaking The Patient’s LanguageIn efforts to more effectively serve the increasingly Hispanic clientele, University of Texas requires Spanish courses for health care students, but critics question responsibility of language barrier.By Lydia LumAs this country becomes increasingly Hispanic, a growing number of universities now offer — and sometimes require — Spanish courses geared to health care […]

September 25, 2002

Professional Appointments

Professional AppointmentsChristolyne Buie has been appointed director of the new Granville T. Woods Scholars Program at Baltimore City Community College. Buie comes to BCCC after 33 years in the Baltimore City Public School System where she was a principal, assistant superintendent, area executive officer and chief of staff. Buie earned a bachelor’s and a master’s […]

January 16, 2002

A Healing Touch

A Healing TouchDr. Joan Coker remembers the exact moment she decided to go into the health care field. Her grandfather, a minister, died suddenly of a heart attack while preaching on a Sunday morning when she was 16.“I remember feeling such a sense of helplessness,” says Coker, outpatient clinical director of otolaryngology at Charles Drew […]

January 2, 2002

Professional Appointments

Professional AppointmentsDr. Andrea Barnwell has been named director of the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art. Barnwell is a well-known author, art historian and curator. Her forthcoming book Charles White is the first book in a series of monographs on African American artists edited by David C. Driskell. Barnwell earned a bachelor’s in English and […]

September 26, 2001

Grants & Awards

Grants & AwardsCalifornia Lutheran University professors Dr. Ali Akbari, Dr. Myungsook Klassen and Dr. Russell Stockard received a $200,000 grant from the National Science Foundation. The grant will be used to research why minorities and women are severely underrepresented in information technology careers. The Department of Educational Opportunity Programs at Creighton University (Neb.) has received […]

September 12, 2001

Recruiting Talent

Recruiting TalentIndiana University-Purdue University’s Minority Research Scholars Program produces first graduates By ERIK LORDSWhen an Indiana program aimed at producing minority scientists and engineers graduated its first four students this month, Dr. Marchusa Huff’s mind overflowed with pleasant memories. Huff is the director of the Minority Research Scholars Program at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. And […]

June 6, 2001

Leadership & Policy

Year 2000: A Retrospective

Year 2000: A RetrospectiveT he year 2000 brought with it plenty of news and many “firsts,” such as Dr. Ruth Simmons being named the first African American to lead Brown University, an Ivy League institution, and Dr. James Walker who became the first African American president of Southern Illinois University. Lawsuits against universities for using […]

December 20, 2000

University of Pittsburgh Names Nursing Award for First Black Student

University of Pittsburgh Names Nursing Award for First Black StudentPITTSBURGH The University of Pittsburgh is naming a nursing scholarship for its first Black nursing student. Adena Johnson Davis started at the University of Pittsburgh in 1943, a year after she had been rejected because of her race. “The stereotype was we didn’t fit in,” says […]

October 11, 2000

U. of Wisconsin to Help Build Telescope in Africa

U. of Wisconsin to Help Build Telescope in AfricaMADISON, Wis.University of Wisconsin-Madison astronomers will help build a telescope in South Africa powerful enough to peer deep into distant galaxies. The $35 million Southern African Large Telescope, to be built on a mountaintop at the edge of the Kalahari Desert, will be the largest telescope in […]

August 30, 2000

Grants & Awards

Grants & AwardsJackson State University has received a $9 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control to research and develop intervention programs for Blacks infected with HIV. The programs will help community-based organizations to use the most recent, scientific research and cultural data to tailor HIV interventions to specific populations at risk.The president of […]

June 7, 2000

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