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Doctored photos prompt journal to retract research study

COLUMBIA Mo. The journal Science retracted a paper Friday that included doctored photos from a former researcher at the University of Missouri-Columbia.

July 26, 2007

Students

1998 Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholars Awards – 1998 nominees and recipients

Six years ago, Black Issues In Higher Education established the Sports Scholars Award to honor undergraduate students of color who exemplify the standards set by tennis great Arthur Ashe Jr.

July 12, 2007

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FAMU Professor, Husband Die Following Domestic Dispute

TALLAHASSEE Fla. The husband of an assistant business professor at Florida A&M University died Saturday morning, just days after police found his wife dead in her home.

July 8, 2007

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North Dakota State professor studying mummies preserved in bogs

FARGO N.D. A North Dakota State University professor is studying mummies that were preserved in peat bogs.

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

Faculty & Staff

Biology professor named interim provost at USM

HATTIESBURG Miss. Longtime biology professor Bobby L. Middlebrooks will become interim provost of the University of Southern Mississippi on Aug. 1, USM President Martha D. Saunders announced Wednesday.

June 26, 2007

Sports

Trainers warn of risks to athletes with sickle cell trait

COLUMBIA Mo. The growing number of exercise-induced deaths among athletes with sickle cell trait can be curtailed with proper treatment and greater awareness among team doctors and athletic trainers, a national medical group said in a report released Wednesday.

June 26, 2007

Students

Just the Stats: How Effective Are STEM Pipeline Programs?

Bridging the racial gap in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, the so-called STEM fields, has become a priority for two organizations: the Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation and the Model Institutions for Excellence.

June 20, 2007

Health

Gene bashing – dilemma of black geneticists working on the National Institute of Health’s Human Genome Project

Black Scientists on Prestigious Genome Project Voice Concerns.

June 15, 2007

Native Americans

Antioch’s Seattle Campus Chooses First American Indian Woman College Head

Dr. Cassandra Manuelito-Kerkvliet of the Navajo, or Dine, tribe appears to be the first American Indian woman to be appointed president of a mainstream university outside of the tribal college system. She was named this month to lead Antioch University Seattle from a pool of more than 40 candidates. She formally begins her presidency July 15.

April 29, 2007

Students

Accelerating Hispanic Progress in Higher Education

As the Hispanic community continues to grow in this country, efforts to accelerate and expand student success in higher education will be critical to the nation’s future competitiveness, says Excelencia in Education President Sarita Brown at a Capitol Hill policy briefing on Tuesday.

March 19, 2007

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Regaining a Lost Heritage

Can a simple procedure unlock African-Americans’ genetic history? Or is DNA tracing just an expensive waste of time?

February 14, 2007