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Sports

North Carolina A&T Fires Official Over Sickle Cell Death

North Carolina A&T State University fired an athletics official and suspended a second after learning coaches were urged against testing potential athletes for the sickle cell trait two days before one died during a tryout.

January 19, 2011

African-American

NSF Grant Supports STEM Partnership Between Jackson State and a Mississippi Community College

An innovative collaboration between Jackson State University and a rural community college campus in Mississippi has resulted in a five-year, $1.75 million grant from the National Science Foundation.

December 23, 2010

African-American

Civil Rights Commission Report Finds That HBCUs Do a Better Job of Graduating Black STEM Majors

Race-conscious admissions at elite institutions lead to academic “mismatch” for Black students, report says.

December 12, 2010

Latinx

Officials: Harvard Student Will Not Be Deported

An undocumented Harvard University student is no longer facing deportation to Mexico after being detained nearly two weeks ago by immigration authorities at a Texas airport.

June 20, 2010

African-American

UND’s First Black Valedictorian Encourages Doubtful Minority Students to Seek Support

On Sunday, Katie Washington, a biological science major from Gary, Ind., graduated from the University of Notre Dame as the first African-American valedictorian in the institution’s 168-year history.

May 16, 2010

Sports

Gymnast Balances Stellar Academics With Dazzling Athletics

For her academic and athletic accomplishments, Marcia Newby is named the 2010 Arthur Ashe Jr. Female Sports Scholar of the Year by Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, the print magazine affiliate of DiverseEducation.com. Tomorrow, DiverseEducation.com profiles the 2010 Arthur Ashe Jr. Male Sports Scholar of the Year.

May 10, 2010

Native Americans

Climate Change-Themed STEM Curriculum Developed for Tribal Colleges

An AIHEC partnership helps tribal colleges build capacity to sustain science and technology education and research programs.

March 28, 2010

Home

Black History Month Book Review: A One-Woman Miracle

The basic facts Rebecca Skloot writes about are these: Henrietta Lacks grew up poor, orphaned and hard-working, even as a child, on her grandfather’s tobacco farm in rural Halifax County, Va. She died a painful death in 1951 at age 31 as the result of cancerous tumor on her cervix. She is buried in an unmarked grave in her hometown of Clover, Va.

February 23, 2010

Leadership & Policy

Alabama Professor in Slayings Shot Victims Methodically, Survivor Says

A professor who survived a deadly university shooting rampage said the colleague charged in the attack methodically shot her victims in the head until the gun apparently jammed and she was pushed out of the room.

February 16, 2010

Faculty & Staff

Citing Scholar’s Suspicious Past, Relatives of Slain Professors Question Suspect’s Hiring

Grieving relatives of three professors gunned down at a university faculty meeting questioned why their accused colleague was hired despite a dispute with a former boss who received a pipe bomb and the shooting death of her brother.

February 15, 2010

Students

UAH Professor’s Family, Friends: No Suspicion of Potential Violence

An Alabama professor accused of shooting six colleagues was vocal in her resentment over being denied tenure, though relatives and students said she had never suggested she might become violent. Plus, Diverse profiles the slain.

February 14, 2010

Home

Bishops Discuss Authority over Catholic Colleges

Fallout continues from the summer controversy over the University of Notre Dame awarding an honorary degree to President Barack Obama, who supports abortion rights.

November 19, 2009