Black Issues

Innovative Robotics Research Keeps Spotlight On MIT Grad Student

Innovative Robotics Research Keeps Spotlight On MIT Grad StudentJames McLurkin recipient of annual Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for inventivenessBy Ronald Roach It’s not common that graduate school research brings national attention and prestigious awards to doctoral candidates. For James McLurkin, however, his work in robotics has won widespread recognition, most recently a prestigious student inventor’s prize […]

March 26, 2003

Microsoft Aids Black Public College Technology Program

Microsoft Aids Black Public College Technology ProgramBy Ronald Roach WASHINGTON, D.C.Microsoft has announced a $15 million software grant to the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund (TMSF) technology initiative, which is a multi-year effort to raise more than $100 million to upgrade technology at public historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). The software grant will be distributed […]

March 26, 2003

High-Profile Alumni of Indian Institutions:

High-Profile Alumni of Indian Institutions: Gururaj “Desh” Deshpande: President and CEO, Sycamore NetworksEducation: Bachelor’s, IIT-Madras, master’s, electrical engineering from the University of New Brunswick, Canada, Ph.D., Data Communications, Queens University, Canada Vinod Dham: Former senior vice-president, Intel; also known as the “Father of the Pentium” chip microprocessorEducation: Bachelor’s, Delhi College of Engineering, University of Delhi, […]

March 26, 2003

Following the Indian Model of Higher Education

Following the Indian Model of Higher Education Higher education in India has evolved in divergent and distinct streams with each stream monitored by an apex body, indirectly controlled by the Ministry of Human Resources. The universities are funded by the state governments. However, there are 12 central universities that are maintained by the federal government […]

March 26, 2003

Riding the High Tide

Riding the High Tide India has surpassed China as the leading sender of foreign students to the United States, so why are its students increasingly drawn to U.S. universities?By Shilpa Banerji When 24-year-old Anil Mukherji joined Louisiana State University as a postdoctoral research assistant in chemistry in 1957, he was one of four Indians in […]

March 26, 2003

Paris Noir

Paris NoirStudy abroad program explores historical, cultural, intellectualconnections between African Americans and the “City of Lights”By Robert J. Vickers Over the course of American history, Paris has stood out as an intriguing place for African Americans. Josephine Baker renounced American racism along with her citizenship in favor of the more accepting French capital and — […]

March 26, 2003

Faculty & Staff

Driven By Service

Driven By ServiceOprah Winfrey Scholars Program aims to give African women a ‘greater voice in their own lives’ and skills to strengthen their native countriesBy Clarence A. Haynes NEW YORKStella Chidinma Iwuagwa, of Nigeria, had long admired Oprah Winfrey’s energy and power, but never would have imagined she would be a recipient of the media […]

March 26, 2003

Pitt Engineering School Implements New Program to Recruit, Retain Underrepresented Students

Pitt Engineering School Implements New Program to Recruit, Retain Underrepresented Students PITTSBURGHThe University of Pittsburgh’s School of Engineering (SOE) is implementing a program that will help minority and disadvantaged students attain a stronger educational background and provide them with positive role models. Building on Pitt’s 30-year history of diversity efforts, Dr. Sylvanus Nwosu, SOE’s assistant […]

March 26, 2003

Three Schools to Test Alternative Medicine Curriculum

Three Schools to Test Alternative Medicine Curriculum RESTON, Va.The American Medical Student Association (AMSA) recently selected three medical schools to test a new curriculum designed to integrate complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) approaches into mainstream medical school curricula. The University of Connecticut School of Medicine, University of Massachusetts School of Medicine and the University of […]

March 26, 2003

Florida Schools to Partner in Film Scholarship Program

Florida Schools to Partner in Film Scholarship ProgramORLANDO, Fla.Gov. Jeb Bush and the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) have joined forces to create a film scholarship program for Florida’s Black college students. As part of the program, Bethune-Cookman College will partner with the University of Central Florida (UCF) for a new five-year film degree program, […]

March 26, 2003

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