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Black Enrollment in Dental Schools Continues to Drop

WASHINGTON African American enrollment in dental schools declined for the third consecutive year, according to data recently released by the American Association of Dental Schools (AADS) and the American Dental Association.

Grants & Awards

Clark Atlanta University has been awarded a $100,000 grant from the David and Lucille Packard Foundation to support the establishment of a Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Institute.

The Tuskegee Experiment’s Long Shadow

Scholars examine the impact of conspiracy theories on African Americans

Telemedicine in the ‘hood – treating patients from a remote location with aid of high-technology communications

Technology enables an historically Black medical college to serve poor Los Angelenos at greatly reduced costs

A shopper’s market; economy brightens job picture for professional school graduates

Economy brightens job picture for professional school graduates

Sisters in science – few African American women in science programs

More African American women participate in higher education than African American men, and the gap is widening. In 1995, there were 556,000 African American men enrolled as students in all institutions of higher education at all levels of matriculation, compared to 918,000 African American women. The growth in the number of African American women also exceeded the growth rate among African American men.

Bringing Graduate Education to the Workplace

Paying for books and little else, company employees benefit from Webster University’s Corporate Cohort program.

Leadership & Policy

Satcher to play key role in minority health issues – US Surgeon General David Satcher

David Satcher’s confirmation as U.S. Surgeon General will give the former Meharry Medical College president a leading role in a new Clinton administration effort to improve health care for people of color.

Less sugar and more of the sweet life: the Diabetes Prevention Program

Washington The Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) is a researh study being conducted at twenty-five medical centers around the country. Sponsored by the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), the program hopes to prove that type 2 diabetes can be prevented by altering one’s lifestyle and/or medication.

African-American

A prescription for participation: diabetes study helping African Americans overcome fears of ethnic medical research

They don’t want to take pills. They’re unwilling to participate in randomized trials. They are reluctant to take a chance,” says Robert Ratner, M.D., head of the Medlantic Clinical Research Center in Washington, D.C., discussing why some people don’t want to participate in medical research. “There remains reluctance to participate in any medical study. Some of it is, `I want someone else to do it so I “know it’s safe, then I’ll do it’ — the guinea-pig phenomenon.”

Faculty & Staff

Grants & Gifts

The American Dental Education Association has received a $672,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to expand an interactive Web site for students considering health careers. Explorehealthcareers.org offers information about various health professions. Bronx Community College (N.Y.) has received a $175,000 grant from the Bronx Gateway Fasttrack Unit Associates for PROJECT H.I.R.E., a pre-apprenticeship […]

Despite criticism, Congress commits to educational tax cuts

The White House and Republican congressional leaders settled negotiations on an education tax break in late May even though some Democrats — including Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) members — are skeptical of the overall budget agreement, of which it is a part.

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