cmaadmin (EDU)Hi this is my profile and bio information.News RoundupArizona School Gets Big Grant to Study Mine Safety TrainingThe University of Arizona’s public health college and its mineral resources institute will use a $1.6-million grant to help improve mine safety training. The federal grant, announced Monday, will be used to develop new training methods for mine workers that include computer games. The games will be designed to simulate a real-life mining environment, allowing […]February 6, 2018News RoundupCampus Police Investigating Illegible GraffitiURBANA, Il. — Police are investigating at the University of Illinois after illegible graffiti was spray-painted on several campus buildings. Police are seeking help finding those responsible. Public information officer Pat Wade said the Illini Union, Student Services Arcade Building, Undergraduate Library and Grainger Library were tagged over the weekend. Wade said police can’t identify […]February 6, 2018News RoundupOprah Picks Iowa Grad’s New Tome for Book ClubIOWA CITY – Tayari Jones, a University of Iowa graduate, received a literary blessing Tuesday: her latest book, “An American Marriage,” was chosen by Oprah Winfrey as her latest book club selection. Winfrey announced her selection of Jones’ latest book for the Oprah Book Club in a video posted on her Facebook and Twitter pages […]February 6, 2018Latest NewsEmerging Scholar Profile: Suarez Makes Geological HistoryBack when she was a first-grader — and long before she found herself in a Utah gully staring at the discovery of a lifetime — Dr. Marina Suarez used to find herself drawn to a large chunk of fossil located in the schoolyard at Boone Elementary School in San Antonio.February 6, 2018Native AmericansEmerging Scholar Profile: Spoonhunter Finds Knowledge is Power in American Indian StudiesBuilding mutually beneficial knowledge alliances and driving positive impact for Native American communities are at the core of Dr. Tarissa Spoonhunter’s work in academia.February 6, 2018African-AmericanCenter for Advancing Opportunity Releases Findings That Reflect ‘Fragile Communities’The Thurgood Marshall College Fund in January 2017 announced a bold new partnership with the Charles Koch Foundation to use data-driven analytics to study the problems of “fragile communities” in the United States.February 5, 2018Latest NewsEmerging Scholar Profile: Rogers Employs Psychology to Identify Educational InequitiesUtilizing a developmental psychology approach, Dr. Leoandra “Onnie” Rogers explores how cultural stereotypes and expectations shape the identity development of children and adolescents in urban environments.February 5, 2018News RoundupSelfie with Severed Heads: Prof, Dental Students ChidedGraduate dental school students and a top University of Connecticut orthodontics professor took a selfie with two severed heads used for medical research at a training workshop at Yale University last year – an episode Yale officials called “disturbing” and “inexcusable”. The selfie was taken in June at the Yale School of Medicine during the […]February 5, 2018News RoundupStabbed Student Stable, Roommate in CustodyFAIRFIELD, Al. — A Miles College student has been stabbed in Alabama and his roommate is in custody, police said. Fairfield Police Chief Nick Dyer told AL.com that the student is in stable condition at a hospital in Birmingham. He was stabbed several times in the body and the head Sunday morning inside his dorm […]February 5, 2018News RoundupGeorgia Student, 19, Found Dead in DormTIFTON, Ga. – A freshman at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College in Georgia has been found dead. The Tifton Gazette cites a college release that went out to students Saturday morning that says 19-year-old Jeremy Bailey was found dead in a dormitory Friday night. The Morrow native’s death is under investigation by the Georgia Bureau of […]February 5, 2018Previous PagePage 395 of 3225Next Page
