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Faculty & Staff

Fort Valley State Students Back Ousted Swanier in Bid to Save Job

A group of current and former Fort Valley State students are rallying behind a popular tenured associate professor who was notified earlier this year that her position is being eliminated due to efforts to cut costs at the financially strapped public Black university.

October 28, 2015

Students

DAYSHA JACKSON-SANCHEZ

DAYSHA JACKSON-SANCHEZ has been named dean of student success at Manchester University. She was assistant vice chancellor for student affairs at Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana-Northeast. Jackson-Sanchez earned a bachelor’s and an MBA from Indiana University-Purdue University-Fort Wayne.

October 8, 2015

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Foundation, Universities Announce $100M for Brain Research

The Kavli Foundation and three universities are committing $100 million for neuroscience research and plan to launch three institutes to bring together researchers from different disciplines to investigate the workings of the brain.

October 1, 2015

Faculty & Staff

ELIZABETH G. LOBOA

ELIZABETH G. LOBOA has been appointed dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Missouri, effective October 15. She is a professor of material science and engineering and a director of the Cell Mechanics Laboratory at North Carolina State University. Loboa also is associate chair and a professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering in the joint program operated by North Carolina State and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She earned a bachelor’s from the University of California, Davis, and a master’s and a doctorate from Stanford University.

September 24, 2015

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MITZI MONTOYA

MITZI MONTOYA has been appointed dean of the College of Business at Oregon State University. She was vice president and dean of entrepreneurship and innovation at Arizona State University. Montoya earned a bachelor’s and a doctorate from Michigan State University.

September 24, 2015

HBCUs

RODNEY O. PARKS

RODNEY O. PARKS has been named senior director of major and planned gifts for the University of Arkansas – Fort Smith. He was the director of development of Philander Smith College. Parks earned a bachelor’s from Arkansas Tech University.

September 24, 2015

African-American

Researchers at Brown Awarded $4.7M for Mindfulness Study

Researchers at Brown University have been awarded a $4.7 million grant to study whether mindfulness can help patients stick with lifestyle changes.

September 20, 2015

Students

State Program Helps Students Reach Higher Education

Today’s economy and job market are making a college degree or trade school education almost mandatory, and one group is helping students reach their goal of a higher education.

September 20, 2015

Students

Couple Donates $20M to Notre Dame to Aid Low-income Students

A New Jersey couple has donated $20 million to the University of Notre Dame to help low-income students pay tuition and other expenses.

September 8, 2015

Faculty & Staff

Some Purdue Students Oppose Name Change for Tech College

Purdue University senior Austin Haberly doesn’t want Purdue Polytechnic Institute on his degree.

September 7, 2015

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Students Not Prepared for Careers in Computer Science

Despite the growing number of jobs that rely on computer science, significant portions of U.S. students never get to take a computer science class at the K-12 level because their schools don’t offer them.

August 24, 2015

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Northeastern University Agrees to Pay $2.7M in Settlement

Northeastern University will pay $2.7 million to the federal government after failing to account for research funds it received from 2001 to 2010.

August 19, 2015