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CDC suspends Texas A&M bioweapons research

AUSTIN The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has suspended Texas A&M University’s federal research on some infectious diseases after two cases in which the school failed to report researchers’ exposure to bioweapons agents.

July 1, 2007

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Georgetown University Researchers Discover Key to Manipulating Fat

WASHINGTON, D.C. In what they call a “stunning research advance,” researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center say they know how to treat diseases associated with human obesity.

July 1, 2007

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Federal agencies investigate bioweapons exposure at Texas A&M

AUSTIN Federal authorities are investigating the cases of four Texas A&M University researchers who tested positive for exposure to bioweapons agents last year and the school’s delay in reporting the incidents.

June 26, 2007

Sports

Grace and elan: 1996 Arthur Ashe nominations – awards for athletic and academic excellence – Cover Story

For the third year in a row, Black Issues In Higher Education honors college students of color who excel in both their academic and their athletic pursuits. They have all proved their commitment to the pursuit of excellence by working hard and — literally — playing by the rules.

June 16, 2007

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Grants & Awards

California State University-Northridge’s National Center on Deafness has received a five-year, $5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to improve the academic achievement of deaf and hard of hearing high school and college students. The program, PEPNet-West, provides services to almost 860 schools in 16 states. The university has also received a $340,764 […]

December 27, 2006

Health

Africa: The Epicenter of the AIDS Pandemic

A continent away, in AIDS-ravaged Africa, an effort similar to that in the United States is underway to mobilize…

September 20, 2006

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AIDS Activist Mobilizes Black Community to Combat the Disease

TORONTO Phill Wilson, founder and executive director of the Los Angeles-based Black AIDS Institute, is enlisting a group of heavy-hitting Black entertainers, civil rights, media, religious, civic, political, community leaders and organizations to help release the deadly grip HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, has on more than half of Blacks in America.

August 28, 2006

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From Academia to the Marketplace

Firm grip, palm-to-palm and three shakes. Those are the elements of a positive first impression-giving handshake…

June 14, 2006

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Research Roundup: Blacks and Cancer, HIV and Business

Younger Black women who get breast cancer are far more likely than their White peers to have a particularly aggressive and lethal form of the disease; HIV infection is significantly more common among non-Hispanic Blacks than among any other young adult racial or ethnic group in the US; African-Americans are twice as likely as White Americans to try to start a business.

June 7, 2006

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Penn State Researchers Say Body Image

According to a recent study by researchers at Pennsylvania State University…

April 5, 2006

International

Penn State Joins International Research

Researchers at Pennsylvania State University are teaming up with institutions in Thailand to study, and hopefully combat…

March 8, 2006

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Study: Teenagers Exposed to Alcohol Ads Drink More

A new University of Connecticut study has found that teenagers who live in media markets with high alcohol advertising…

February 22, 2006