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Columbia Launches David N. Dinkins Archives, Oral History Project
Columbia Launches David N. Dinkins Archives, Oral History ProjectNEW YORKColumbia University has launched the David N. Dinkins Archives and Oral History Project, which will include an archive of Dinkins’ official and personal papers and correspondence, an oral history of Dinkins’ life, political philosophy and policy agenda, and a program initiative documenting the influences of Black […]
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Translating the African Past: The Islamic Heritage of Sub-Saharan Africa
Translating the African Past: The Islamic Heritage of Sub-Saharan AfricaOn a recent trip to the West African nation of Mali, Dr. John O. Hunwick encountered in Timbuktu signs of its legacy being resurrected in the form of new libraries. To this scholar of African history and frequent visitor to the dusty, desert city near the […]
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Adding International Flavor to your Résumé
Adding International Flavor to your RésuméBack in the 1980s, Anthony Pinder was trading futures for a living in Chicago. When the Chernobyl nuclear accident devastated the stock market, he decided the timing was right to do something he had thought about for years. He joined the Peace Corps. Pinder’s 2 ½ years in Ecuador changed […]
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MIT Professor Celebrates 60th Birthday With Scholarship Fund
MIT Professor Celebrates 60th Birthday With Scholarship Fund CAMBRIDGE, Mass.MIT professor Dr. Wesley L. Harris is a private person who prefers to celebrate birthdays quietly with his family, little fanfare, no fuss.When his 60th loomed last fall, his wife, Sandra, wanted to surprise him by doing something special. Her dilemma: What do you do for […]
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Carnegie Mellon Research Center
Carnegie Mellon Research CenterTo Address Wireless Technology PITTSBURGH, Pa.A new research center at Carnegie Mellon University is expected to push innovation in wireless telecommunications and computer networking. Carnegie Mellon University’s Center for Wireless and Broadband Networking will tap into collaborative research and university innovations under way to help accelerate growth in the $116-billion telecommunications and […]
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Ball State Creates Supercomputer
Ball State Creates Supercomputer From Old Desktop ComputersMUNCIE, Ind.Discarded personal computers have been used to create a supercomputer at Ball State University. The effort, known as the Cluster Computer Research Project, involved collecting unwanted personal computers from a former lab in the school’s College of Business and deploying them to build a computing machine designed […]
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The Current Toast of the Poetry World
The Current Toast of the Poetry WorldCarl Phillips honored with Kingsley Tufts Award Charlottesville, Va.Carl Phillips has become only the second African American poet to win the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, a highly coveted prize that carries with it a career’s worth of prestige — and a $100,000 check.Phillips says the reality of following in […]
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Supercomputing Conference Seeks Faculty Participation
Supercomputing Conference Seeks Faculty ParticipationBALTIMOREAn upcoming supercomputing conference in Baltimore is seeking the participation of teams of undergraduate faculty and K-12 teachers to spend four days in hands-on workshops learning about high-performance computing and communications tools and resources appropriate for their classroom. Entitled this year as SC2002, the annual conference features high-performance computing and communications […]
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Bluefield State President Resigns
Bluefield State President Resigns, Plans to Teach at CollegeBLUEFIELD, W.Va.Bluefield State College president Dr. Robert Moore announced his resignation last month, citing a desire to pursue new personal and professional goals. Moore, who became BSC president in June 1993, following 19 years as a member of the college’s faculty and administrative staff, is stepping down […]
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Making the Most of Multimedia
Making the Most of MultimediaWith a click of the computer mouse, the Web site for the “Black in the Arts” survey course began playing a segment from the all-Black cast film “Stormy Weather.” The film clip, being projected onto a large screen in a high technology classroom at Howard University in Washington, featured a depiction […]
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‘Race in the College Classroom’
‘Race in the College Classroom’Minority faculty often face student resistance when teaching about raceDealing with conflict in the multiethnic classroom — well, it can pose dilemmas that stump even the so-called experts.An exchange during “Comparative and Collaborative Approaches to Teaching Multiethnic Literatures,” a panel at the recent Modern Languages Association conference, neatly illustrates the point. […]
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Eliminating the ‘Chalk and Talk’ Approach to Teaching
Eliminating the ‘Chalk and Talk’ Approach to TeachingNASA program exposes pre-service teachers to innovative teaching methods, aims to demystify science, mathBy Hilary Hurd Alexandria, Va.“I’m math illiterate,” along with “I’m science phobic” are familiar statements to NASA’s Dr. Sandra Proctor — in fact, they are among the statements she hears most often from students. Proctor, […]
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