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Students

Grants and Gifts

California State Polytechnic University has received a two-year, $600,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to aid the university in producing more graduates specializing in cyber security. Educators will be able to enhance their curricula with this grant and encourage students to get into the new field. California State University, Northridge has received a $23,500 […]

December 26, 2007

Health

Grants and Gifts

Meharry Medical College-Center for Women’s Health Research (Tenn.) has received a $1 million gift from the Wal-Mart Foundation. The funds will help advance work in diseases that disproportionately affect women of color. Michigan State University has been awarded a $2.3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to help seasonal and migrant worker youth […]

December 12, 2007

Health

Grants & Gifts

The COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF BALTIMORE COUNTY has received a three-year grant totaling more than $745,000 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to make the college’s nursing program available online. CCBC will begin offering this online nursing program in the fall of 2008. EASTERN MENNONITE UNIVERSITY (Va.) has received $399,649 from Higher Education […]

November 28, 2007

Health

Pitt Gets Grant to Research, Improve Black Health

PITTSBURGH The University of Pittsburgh is getting a $4.8 million grant to create a research center to improve the health of the city’s black population.

November 8, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Grants and Gifts

Armstrong Atlantic State University (Ga.) has been awarded $483,760 by the National Science Foundation for scholarships to support students in computer science, information technology, mathematics, biology, chemistry and physics fields. The Association of American Indian Physicians and its partners in the Healthier Indian Country Initiative have received a $1.2 million grant from the U.S. Department […]

October 31, 2007

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

Head of University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute resigning

PITTSBURGH The head of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute says he’s resigning that post to focus his time on research.

September 22, 2007

Health

Harvard Study Examines Hidden Biases Among ER Physicians

A new Harvard University study reports that physicians’ subconscious racial biases play a significant role in the care and treatment they provide to patients and is a contributing factor to the health disparity that exists between Black and White patients.

August 2, 2007

Health

Black Enrollment in Dental Schools Continues to Drop

WASHINGTON African American enrollment in dental schools declined for the third consecutive year, according to data recently released by the American Association of Dental Schools (AADS) and the American Dental Association.

July 14, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Satcher to play key role in minority health issues – US Surgeon General David Satcher

David Satcher’s confirmation as U.S. Surgeon General will give the former Meharry Medical College president a leading role in a new Clinton administration effort to improve health care for people of color.

July 11, 2007

Health

HBCUs, Black Voters Figure Prominently In 2008 Presidential Race

There’s consensus among political experts that the location, moderator and audience at last week’s Democratic presidential debate, held at Howard University, forced candidates to discuss solutions to issues concerning Blacks and other minority voters. A second forum for candidates seeking the Republican presidential nomination will be broadcast by PBS in September from another historically Black campus, Morgan State University in Baltimore.

July 1, 2007

Health

Tuskegee grad finds comedy overcomes adversity

MONTGOMERY Ala. Darryl Moore’s fellow humorists call him the “Meanest Comic in the World.”

June 24, 2007