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African-American

Texas Schools Join Forces in Bid to Help Minority Males

The consortium is dedicated to finding solutions to lagging graduation rates among Latino and African-American males.

August 20, 2013

Faculty & Staff

Regents Set New Policies for Georgia Colleges

The University System of Georgia took several steps Wednesday to establish a more comprehensive approach to guiding the state’s 31 public colleges and universities.

August 14, 2013

Faculty & Staff

Conference Reviews Best Practices for Adults with Low Literacy in a Second Language

The LESLLA conference united researchers and teachers from around the world to review interdisciplinary research on adult immigrants with limited literacy in their native and second languages.

August 12, 2013

Students

UMASS Recognizes Growing Interdisciplinary Study of Black Germans in Academia

In the past 10 years, there has been an increase in Black German Studies programs at institutions across the country.

August 12, 2013

Students

American Indian Higher Education Consortium Celebrates 40 Years; Prepares for Future

The American Indian Higher Education Consortium addresses student retention, international partnerships and language preservation at annual conference in Santa Fe.

August 11, 2013

Faculty & Staff

University of North Carolina System Schools Facing Layoffs

The University of North Carolina at Greensboro and North Carolina A&T are facing layoffs due to budget cuts.

August 11, 2013

Students

In $25M Gift, Casino Mogul Bets on Blindness Cure

Las Vegas casino mogul Steve Wynn will donate $25 million to the University of Iowa to accelerate the search for cures to rare eye diseases including the one that hampers his own vision, the school announced Thursday.

August 8, 2013

Health

Feds, Family Reach Deal on Use of DNA Information

Some 60 years ago, a doctor in Baltimore removed cancer cells from a poor black patient named Henrietta Lacks without her knowledge or consent.

August 7, 2013

Faculty & Staff

New Look at Old Community Recasting History of Free Blacks in America

The Hill on Maryland’s Eastern Shore is a historic community of free Blacks that predates Treme’, a neighborhood in New Orleans, which had been recognized as the oldest neighborhood of free Blacks.

August 7, 2013

Community Colleges

Chinese Researcher Sentenced in Research Drug Case

A Chinese researcher was sentenced Tuesday to time served plus two years of probation on charges stemming from the theft of a research drug from a Wisconsin medical school.

August 6, 2013

Home

Miami Dade College Program Develops Students Into Researchers

The computing research lab funds six students each year, many of whom are Hispanic, to spend 10 to 15 hours per week researching and developing projects of their own or advancing projects that other students had begun.

August 6, 2013

Faculty & Staff

Alabama State University Program Creates International Collaboration

This summer, two scientists from Ege University in Izmir, Turkey, traveled to ASU to learn new nanotechnology techniques.

August 5, 2013