Tag: Health Disparities: Page 4

Health

Grambling Wins $1.7 Million STEM Grant

Grambling State University has been awarded a $1.7 million, five-year grant by the National Institutes of Health to provide graduate degree opportunities to under-represented honors students.

June 24, 2013

Students

June 6th Issue

Colin Powell at vanguard of effort to boost lagging achievement among struggling minority students

June 7, 2013

Faculty & Staff

AAUP Criticizes Southern’s Treatment of Faculty

A national organization of university professors is criticizing the way Southern University faculty members were treated immediately after the school declared a financial emergency nearly two years ago.

April 4, 2013

Latinx

Pricey Colleges, the High Cost of Nutella and Timberlake’s Vegan Shake

Is it just New York’s Columbia University or is the insatiable demand for this thing called Nutella spreading throughout the land?

March 17, 2013

Students

Redford Creates Ecology Program with Calif. College

A California college is teaming up with Robert Redford to create a program where students can combine environmental studies with media and liberal arts.

November 20, 2012

African-American

Black-owned Newspapers Join HBCUs, Black Churches in HIV/AIDS Fight

A group of African-American newspaper publishers have enlisted the support of Black colleges and churches as they prepare to wage a war against HIV/AIDS.

November 20, 2011

African-American

Celebrated AIDS Researcher Reflects on Move to UC-Davis, Meharry Tenure

Dr. James Hildreth discusses his move to the University of California-Davis, his time at Meharry Medical College and what remains to be done in the fight against AIDS.

November 16, 2011

Leadership & Policy

Rx for Success: Xavier Ranks Among the Top Producers of Black Students Accepted by Medical School

With growing minority health needs across the state and in the Delta, compounded by Katrina, Xavier University president Norman Francis announced that the school in 2012 will begin offering undergraduate degrees in public health.

October 18, 2011

Health

AIDS Remains Public Health Challenge 30 Years After its Discovery

Three decades after AIDS was officially recognized by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, experts reflect on efforts to eradicate the disease and to create awareness about how it is transmitted.

September 29, 2011

Health

AIDS Research Pioneer James Hildreth Moving On From Meharry

Dr. James E.K. Hildreth leaves Meharry Medical College to lead College of Biological Sciences at UC Davis.

July 17, 2011

African-American

Connecticut Hospital Teams With Tuskegee University on Cancer Study

Saint Francis Hospital and Tuskegee University have announced a partnership to study why prostate cancer has a disproportionately high death rate among African-American men.

April 25, 2011

Health

Making Health Care Disparities Worse

Existing disparities in health care based on social status, income, and race can only become worse with budget cuts to social programs.

April 17, 2011