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Students

Harvard Scholars: Travel Ban Deprives U.S. of Best, Brightest

BOSTON — Harvard Medical School professor Thomas Michel was so excited about recruiting Iranian researcher Soheil Saravi, he put Saravi’s name on the door of his Boston lab when his new hire got his visa. Then President Donald Trump’s travel ban took effect, blocking Saravi from entering the U.S. “It’s interesting. This is a door. […]

February 1, 2017

Students

Travel Ban Throws Research, Academic Exchange into Turmoil

BOSTON — Universities across the nation say President Donald Trump’s ban on travelers from seven Muslim countries is disrupting vital research projects and academic exchanges in such fields as medicine, public health and engineering, with untold numbers of scholars blocked from entering the U.S. For years, schools in the U.S. have worked to widen exchanges […]

January 31, 2017

Students

NLRB Orders Union Elections for Yale Graduate Students

NEW HAVEN, Conn.  — The National Labor Relations Board has granted petitions for graduate students in nine departments at Yale University to vote on whether they want union representation. The order Wednesday from the NLRB regional director in Boston calls for nine separate elections. Local 33-UNITE HERE sought elections first in departments where union support […]

January 26, 2017

Students

Ala Qattawi Constantly Fine-tuning Approach to Teaching

Dr. Ala Qattawi, selected by Diverse as a member of the 2017 Class of Emerging Scholars, is a University of California, Merced assistant professor and the United States’ first female doctoral grad in automotive engineering.

January 25, 2017

Students

Gates Foundation gives $279M to University of Washington

SEATTLE — The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is awarding $279 million to the University of Washington to expand its work in improving global population health, the largest private donation to the university, officials said Wednesday. The grant funds another decade of research at the university’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, which provides critical […]

January 25, 2017

Students

Researcher Who Lost Arm in Blast Sues University of Hawaii

HONOLULU — A postdoctoral fellow who lost her right arm in a University of Hawaii laboratory explosion has sued the school and the researchers she worked for. Thea Ekins-Coward and her wife, who are both from the United Kingdom, filed the lawsuit in state court in Honolulu this month. The complaint alleges the university and […]

January 22, 2017

Faculty & Staff

Diverse Docket: Court Rules Kankakee CC Did Not Violate Religious Rights

An Illinois community college did not violate the religious rights of a student excluded from its paramedic program for refusing to be vaccinated, an appeals panel has ruled.

January 17, 2017

Faculty & Staff

Diversity Scholar Shaun Harper Leaving Penn for Southern Cal

Dr. Shaun R. Harper, an expert on campus climate and racial equity, is leaving the University of Pennsylvania to join the Rossier School of Education at the University of Southern California.

January 8, 2017

Faculty & Staff

Retiring University of Kansas Professor Invented Widely Used Drugs for HIV

LAWRENCE, Kan. — There’s a high chance you know someone whose life has been saved, extended or improved by a drug invented by University of Kansas professor Valentino “Val” Stella. Stella himself does: A KU colleague and the father of another both used the drug Velcade to treat blood cancer, to name just two. “About […]

December 29, 2016

Asian American Pacific Islander

Report: Asian-American Wealth Inequality Gap Widening

Wealth among Asian Americans is so highly concentrated among those at the top of the socioeconomic ladder that wealth inequality among people of Asian descent is even greater than wealth inequality among Whites.

December 29, 2016

Students

University of Nebraska Starts Institute to Create Businesses

OMAHA, Neb. — The University of Nebraska’s Omaha campuses are opening a new institute to create businesses out of academic ideas. UNeTech is a partnership between the University of Nebraska at Omaha and the University of Nebraska Medical Center, the Omaha World-Herald reported. The partnership’s executive director Dr. Rod Markin said UNeTech will be part […]

December 22, 2016

Health

Researchers: Nearly 400 Drug Addicts Helped in Police Effort

BOSTON — A novel drug addiction program developed in a small Massachusetts fishing town and since replicated in dozens of cities nationwide was able to place almost 400 addicts into treatment nearly each time they sought it during the first year of operation, researchers say in a report being published Thursday in the New England […]

December 22, 2016