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Gene Variant Predicts Racial Disparity in Hepatitis Treatment Success
Scientists say they’ve found a big reason why treatment for chronic hepatitis C infection works better for White patients than for African-Americans. It’s a tiny variation in a gene.
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Tribal Members, Researchers Band Together to Bring Back Condor
The tribes of the lower Klamath River have since ancient times decorated themselves with condor feathers when they performed the dances designed to heal a world gone wrong.
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Black Male Enrollment at Mississippi Institutions Lags
A task force commissioned by the Mississippi College Board to recommend ways to improve Black male college enrollment has not made much progress despite having more than a year on the job.
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Black male university enrollment still lags
More than a year after the Mississippi College Board launched a fact-finding mission to bolster the number of black males attending and graduating college, no specific recommendations are in hand.  According to clarionledger.com, a statewide task force has met a few times since its creation in June 2008, but officials say it could be at […]
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CONFRONTING CLIMATE CHANGE
For more than two decades, Dr. Warren M. Washington, one of the nation’s leading meteorologists, has been among the U.S. scientists that have studied and predicted the long-term impact greenhouse gas emissions.
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SPECTRUM : SMASHING THE STEROTYPES ON THE BIG SCREEN
While attending graduate school at Stanford University, Dr. Chon Noriega watched four films that impacted his life: “Stand and Deliver,” “La Bamba,” “Milagro Beanfield War” and “Born in East L.A.”
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WASHINGTON UPDATE – Power Players for HSIs and Tribal Colleges
In Washington, D.C., many individuals aspire to become power players. But the true test is the ability to influence policy and legislation.
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Mexican students to be recognized Friday
The California-Mexico Project (CMP), headed by CSULB Chicano/Latino Studies professor Armando Vazquez-Ramos, and Mexico’s National Association of Universities and Higher Education Institutions (ANUIES) arranged the study abroad program. Dr. Ana Uribe of Mexico’s University of Colima directed the program and its research component.  According to the Daily 49er.com, among them are seven undergraduates from three […]
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Tribal Colleges Seeking Stability in Federal Funding Cycles
For Leonard Dauphinais, one of the most challenging things about running a tribal college is not a lack of federal funding but trying to figure out when that funding will arrive at his school.
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Smashing the Stereotypes On the Big Screen
While attending graduate school at Stanford University, Dr. Chon Noriega watched four fi lms that impacted his life: “Stand and Deliver,” “La Bamba,” “Milagro Beanfi eld War” and “Born in East L.A.”
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Quote of Note:
“Judge Sotomayor’s hearing begins, and she graciously introduces her extended family, including her twin nephews Corey and Conner Sotomayor, who are adopted from Korea. It’s one example of how complex the modern American family is, and how outdated traditional ideas of race and culture are. When the Sotomayor twins apply to college, which box will […]
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