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Leadership & Policy

Dartmouth’s New President First Asian To Lead Ivy League Institution

A Korean-born doctor and humanitarian known as a leader the global fight against HIV/AIDS and other diseases will become the next president of Dartmouth College.

March 2, 2009

Health

Film Scholar at the Forefront of a Women’s Sexual Health Issue

Giovanna Chesler, a film professor, couldn’t have scripted a screenplay more provocative than the drama that recently unfolded in her own life.

May 20, 2008

HBCUs

CNN Hosting HBCU Contest on Being Black in America

CNN is asking HBCU students what it means to be “Black in America” through its Campus iReporter Contest.

April 6, 2008

Home

Bringing the Arab World to U.S. Classrooms

Amidst few resources and emerging demand, one student’s creative learning technology is now being marketed as a helpful teaching tool for Arabic professors nationwide.

March 4, 2008

STEM

Racial Disparities in Health Care Headlines UVA Symposium

Charlottesville, Va. A nine-member panel discussion on HIV/AIDS by community activists and health care providers last week ended the three-day Symposium on Race and Society hosted by the University of Virginia Health System designed to call attention to the issue of health disparities in the United States.

October 6, 2007

Health

The Tuskegee Experiment’s Long Shadow

Scholars examine the impact of conspiracy theories on African Americans

July 14, 2007

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Supreme Court Ruling Denounced by Democratic Presidential Candidates

WASHINGTON A historically diverse field of Democratic presidential candidates a woman, a black, an Hispanic and five whites denounced an hours-old Supreme Court affirmative action ruling Thursday night and said the nation’s slow march to racial unity is far from over.

June 29, 2007

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UC-Berkeley, Tulane Produce Damning Report on Uganda War Crimes

BERKELEY, Calif. A report released by the University of California, Berkeley, and Tulane University has found that as many as 38,000 children and 37,000 adults have been abducted by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) since 1986. The rebel group has been accused of kidnapping tens of thousands of women and children to serve as soldiers, servants or sex slaves in northern Uganda.

June 24, 2007

Health

Black medical community boosts AIDS research – special report: health sciences

In 1991, when Dr. Abdul Alim Muhammad, and Dr. Barbara Justice, learned that an immunologist in Kenya was achieving near-miraculous results treating HIV/AIDs patients with a substance called “kemron,” the two African-American physicians had to see for themselves.

June 23, 2007

Sports

Days of Grace. – book reviews

Days of Grace, Arthur Ashe and Arnold Rampersad, One world-Ballantine Books, 1996, $7.99 (softcover).

June 16, 2007

Health

Morehouse Study: Untreated Prison Illnesses Can Expose Black Communities to Contagious Diseases

Untreated illnesses in a prison population can expose whole communities to the risk of infection from a contagious disease, according to one study. Another study has found that the rates of psychiatric disorder among U.S.-born Latinos have increased substantially over the past decade.

January 18, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Research Round-Up: Impact of Discrimination on Health, Innovative Teaching Methods of Minority Faculty and Racial Disparities in Care For HIV Patients

Racial discrimination may be an important reason why Blacks suffer from higher rates of cardiovascular disorders, diabetes and obesity; faculty of color use more interesting ways of teaching at undergraduate institutions than their White peers; HIV-infected people who have little to no consistent outpatient medical care are overwhelmingly minorities, the poor and substance abusers.

October 31, 2006