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Students

Montana State U., Tribal College Students to Seek Answers Together

Montana State University researchers have received a $282,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to create a new approach to solving issues on Montana’s Indian Reservations.

May 22, 2017

Students

Rodriguez: Arizona Court to Decide What We Can Learn

The long-anticipated trial to determine whether there were racial motivations in terminating Tucson Unified School District’s highly effective Raza Studies Department begins next month.

May 22, 2017

STEM

West Virginia U. Researchers Patent Method to Strengthen Buildings

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — West Virginia University researchers have patented technology for reinforcing the T-shaped joints of concrete beams in buildings to better withstand shocks like earthquakes without breaking. Doctoral engineering student Praveen Majjigapu and his adviser, Professor Hota GangaRao, are co-inventors and share the two patents. At a demonstration Thursday for potential partners in an […]

May 18, 2017

Faculty & Staff

Hine Retiring from Northwestern U. Endowed Professorship

Dr. Darlene Clark Hine — known in the academy as the dean of African-American women’s history — is retiring from her endowed professorship at Northwestern University.

May 12, 2017

African-American

University of Georgia Builds On Lessons Learned from Slave Cemetery

As the University of Georgia prepares to delve into its past, activists hope that it will remain sensitive to the impact that history still has on the present.

May 3, 2017

Students

Low-income, Minority Students Lag in High School Grad Rates

WASHINGTON — Despite rising national graduation rates, low-income and minority students continue to lag behind their peers in finishing high school, according to a study released Wednesday. While the national graduation rate for the year 2015 was 83.2 percent, it was only 77.8 percent for Hispanic students and 74.6 for Black students, said the […]

May 3, 2017

Students

UCLA Report: Rising Higher Ed Costs Stifling Freshman Students

The escalating costs of higher education are strongly influencing where first-generation college students attend school and even whether they move out of their parents’ home.

May 1, 2017

Home

Scholars Find AERA Meeting Perfect for Seeking Answers

One attendee called the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), a family reunion where she doles out hugs and kisses to her colleagues that she only gets to see about once a year.

April 30, 2017

African-American

Black Intellectuals Challenged to Do Work Useful to Activism

“The Future of Black Intellectuals” panel at the National Action Network Convention addressed what role Black intellectuals should play in this era of President Donald Trump.

April 27, 2017

Students

Yale Grad Students Pledge Hunger Strike to Press Union Bid

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — As a union push stalls at Yale University, organizers are stepping up pressure to bring the administration to the negotiating table, including a vow by some graduate students to go on a hunger strike until talks begin. Graduate assistants in eight departments at the Ivy League school voted in February to […]

April 26, 2017

Health

Huntsman Slams University Officials Over Researcher’s Firing

SALT LAKE CITY — Wealthy philanthropist Jon Huntsman Sr. escalated his public protests Friday over the firing of the chief executive officer at the cancer institute at the University of Utah that bears his name, taking out full-page newspaper ads that call university officials “inept and uncaring.” Huntsman’s ads in the Deseret News and Salt […]

April 23, 2017

News Roundup

Harvard Researchers Find Copy of Declaration of Independence

BOSTON — Harvard University researchers say they’ve discovered a second parchment copy of the Declaration of Independence. The Boston Globe reported Friday researchers Emily Sneff and Danielle Allen found the copy in a records office in southern England. The only other parchment copy is maintained by the National Archives in Washington. The two dated the […]

April 23, 2017