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Miss. Getting $5.62M Grant to Improve Health, Education Responses in Pandemic

Mississippi is getting a great big grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development. The $5.26 million grant, funded through the CARES Act, is expected to improve health and education responses to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Read More

Oxford University COVID Lab Suffers Cyber Attack

LONDON: Oxford University has confirmed that one of its laboratories involved in Covid-19 research suffered cyberattack after an investigation by Forbes suggested that hackers were showing off access to a number of systems. The university on Thursday, however, said that there has been “no impact” on any clinical research. The hack is understood to have taken place in the […]

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College of Health Adds the Institute of Indigenous Studies With Plans of Involvement Locally and Internationally

The College of Health recently opened its Institute of Indigenous Studies, which is led by professors Christine Daley and Sean Daley. The Institute of Indigenous Studies plans to bring more opportunities for students at Lehigh to learn about and engage with Indigenous communities. Both Christine Daley and Sean Daley ran centers that focused on the […]

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Safe Space CNY Provides Accessible Mental Health Support Services

Tracy Mergler was diagnosed with an eating disorder when she was 14 years old. Shortly after her diagnosis, she found that there was very little help available in central New York. The Syracuse native always had to leave the area to seek treatment for her mental health. Since then, Mergler has dreamed of bringing a […]

College Tuition Sparked A Mental Health Crisis. Then The Hefty Hospital Bill Arrived

Despite a lifelong struggle with panic attacks, Divya Singh made a brave move across the world last fall from her home in Mumbai, India. She enrolled at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y., to study physics and explore an interest in stand-up comedy in Manhattan. Arriving in the midst of the pandemic and isolated in her […]

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California Colleges Slowly Begin Vaccinating Faculty, Students — But Likely Won’t Require Immunization

In mid-January, science education professor Al Schademan received one of around 2,000 emails sent to faculty, student employees and essential staff at California State University, Chico. The email contained a surprise for Schademan: He would be among the first higher education employees in California to gain coveted access to the coronavirus vaccine. Within a couple […]

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UK Speeds Up Vaccinations: All Adults Get 1st Jab by July 31

The British government declared Sunday that every adult in the country should get a first coronavirus vaccine shot by July 31, at least a month earlier than its previous target, as it prepared to set out a “cautious” plan to ease the U.K.’s lockdown. Read More

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Cassidy Announces Nearly $5 Million for LSU Health Shreveport, LSU and A&M College Baton Rouge

U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) today announced the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is awarding $4,617,645 to Louisiana State University (LSU) Health Shreveport and LSU and Agricultural and Mechanical (LSU and A&M) College Baton Rouge under the pharmacology, physiology, and biological chemistry research program. Read More

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Meet College of Health Sciences and Technology Dean Yong ‘Tai’ Wang

RIT’s College of Health Sciences and Technology began the year under new leadership with Dean Yong “Tai” Wang. Wang joined RIT in January from the University of Texas at Tyler, where he was dean and endowed chair professor of the Drs. Lee Roy and Lucy Mathis College of Nursing and Health Sciences. His research focuses on rehabilitative […]

UMN Collaboration Seeks to Strengthen Healthcare Workforce in Afghanistan

The University of Minnesota recently entered a partnership designed to further advance health sciences higher education and strengthen the healthcare workforce in Afghanistan over a five-year period. The program, Advancing Higher Education for Afghanistan’s Development (AHEAD), will work to combat the limited access to higher education caused by ongoing conflict in Afghanistan. Supported by a […]

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Cuomo Urges NY Colleges & Universities to Ramp Up Campus Testing to Avoid Full Remote Learning

New York’s colleges and universities that are testing at least a quarter of their on-campus student and faculty population can be exempt from going to full remote learning if COVID-19 positivity rates increase, Governor Andrew Cuomo said Friday. He set the testing minimum at 25% of total on-campus students, faculty and staff tested weekly for a college or university […]

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Helping College Students Cope with Mental Health Issues

The pandemic has highlighted how important mental health is and how impactful mental wellness can be. Knowing what resources are available can be crucial, especially for college students. Doug Wermedal, South Dakota State University’s associate vice president of student affairs, says the school has a counseling center on campus which has seen a 15% increase […]

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