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Grants & Awards
Southern University’s (La.) Center for Social Research has been awarded a $350,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to help fund the Universities Rebuilding America Partnership. The two-year program assists low- to moderate-income residents of the Baton Rouge and New Orleans corridor. The center will provide technical training, assist small and […]
Health
Funding cuts may hurt program that helped Indian med students
Summer programs that encourage American Indians to enter health professions are in full swing now, but they may come to an end after Sept. 1. That’s when funding ends for the Center for American Indian and Minority Health, one of three centers in U.S. medical schools that promotes health professions for American Indians.
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Health
Research Roundup: You’re Fired, Call An Ambulance; Black Smokers; the Insulin-Resistant Race
Involuntary job loss near retirement more than doubles the risk of heart attack and stroke; new research may explain why Black smokers are less successful than Whites at quitting the habit; Black women — even if their weight is normal — may be at increased risk for insulin resistance, a condition associated with diabetes, high blood pressure and heart vessel disease.
Students
Grants & Awards
Elizabeth City State University (N.C.) has received a four-year, $875,448 grant from the National Institutes of Health to support student international research internships. The Minority Health Institute Research Training Program will send 10 students each year to the University of Botswana and the University of Zululand in South Africa. Harvard University (Mass.) has received a […]
Health
Perspectives: Personalized and Racialized Medicine Are Not The Same
On May 31, 2006, Diverse Online published a story titled “Racial Pill Maker’s Sales Drop in Wider-than-expected Loss” about lackluster sales of the drug BiDil. The article claimed that BiDil, the heart-failure drug approved only for Black patients, is expected to usher in the era of personalized medicine.
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HBCUs
HBCUs to Participate in North Carolina Research Campus
North Carolina officials believe the February groundbreaking of the North Carolina Research Campus…
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Leadership & Policy
Report: UT Memphis Chancellor’s Spending Questioned
The chancellor of the University of Tennessee’s Health Science Center in Memphis is being questioned about the cost of work done on his residence, according to a newspaper report.
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Faculty & Staff
Auditor: University of Missouri-Kansas City Faculty Diversity Is ‘Worst’ He’s Seen
The University of Missouri-Kansas City has a serious problem with its racial climate and a serious lack of diversity in its faculty…
Health
Indian Doctors Strike Against Affirmative Action
A doctors’ strike that began in the capital to protest an affirmative action program at medical colleges spread Sunday, threatening to cripple services at major government health care facilities. Protests by medical students on Saturday were met with violence by police at government hospitals in the capital, New Delhi, and Bombay.
Health
Manning the Ship
Statistically and historically speaking, most women’s studies departments are headed by women…
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Study: Latina Mothers Have Inaccurate Perceptions of Children’s Body Weight
Latina mothers of preschool-aged children frequently have inaccurate perceptions of their children’s body mass index and believe they are healthy when they are overweight, according to a new study from the University of California, San Francisco.
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Manning the Ship
Statistically and historically speaking, most women’s studies departments are headed by women…
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