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Hampton Professor Conducts Study Linking Cigarette Smoke to Breast Cancer

Hampton Professor Conducts Study Linking Cigarette Smoke to Breast CancerHAMPTON, Va.A new study links cadmium, a metal found in cigarette smoke and shellfish, to breast cancer. Findings from the study, conducted by Hampton University biology professor Dr. Nicholas Kenney and several researchers at the Lombardi Cancer Center at Georgetown University, were published in the July […]

Medical, Dental Schools Are Seeing Fewer Minority Students in Their Ranks

Medical, Dental Schools Are Seeing Fewer Minority Students in Their Ranks DURHAM, N.C.As the academic year gets under way, the nation’s medical, dental and nursing schools are seeing fewer minorities in the classroom. The numbers are so low that a commission, led by former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Dr. Louis W. Sullivan, […]

Events

OCTOBEROct. 15-18Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students“Preparing a Diverse Scientific Work Force: Eliminating Health Disparities”Town and Country Resort and Convention Center, San Diego Web: www.abrcms.orgOct. 18-21Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU)17th Annual Conference“Hispanic Higher Education Success: America’s Path to the Future” Hyatt Regency Orange CountyAnaheim, Calif.Web: www.hacu.netOct. 23-25American Council on EducationOffice of Minorities […]

Grants & Awards

Dillard University (La.) and the University of Colorado at Boulder received a $350,000 grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York to fund the second year of a unique partnership between the two universities that merges the institutions’ respective strengths in the humanities, mathematics, literature and information technology. North Carolina Central University received a $658,000 grant from […]

Pfizer Gift Creates Scholarship in Minority Medical Journalism

Pfizer Gift Creates Scholarship in Minority Medical Journalism CHAPEL HILL, N.C. The University of North Carolina School of Journalism and Mass Communication has received a $100,000 gift to create a new graduate scholarship designed to improve media coverage of minority health issues. The gift, from the Pfizer Medical Humanities Initiative, will establish the Pfizer Minority […]

Faculty & Staff

UC Regents Turn the Tables on Ward Connerly

UC Regents Turn the Tables on Ward Connerly Regents oppose initiative to outlaw collection of racial data even as Connerly predicts victory at the ballot boxBy Pamela Burdman SAN FRANCISCO The University of California Board of Regents went on the offensive recently against fellow regent Ward Connerly, formally opposing his campaign to outlaw the collection […]

Commission Convened to Diversify U.S. Healthcare Work Force

Commission Convened to Diversify U.S. Healthcare Work Force DURHAM, N.C.Former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, Dr. Louis W. Sullivan, has convened a commission that will address the nation’s health gap by focusing attention on the number of underrepresented minorities among the nation’s health professions. The Sullivan Commission on Diversity in the Healthcare Workforce, […]

Faculty & Staff

History’s Burden

History’s BurdenAfter decades of neglect, an academic research agenda is being built around health disparitiesBy Ronald Roach R&D Expenditures at Universities and Colleges by Geographic Division R&D Expenditures at Doctoral-Granting InstitutionsandTop Patenting U.S. Universities Special Report Research Adobe Acrobat Reader is required to view the above listed chart(s). If you do not have Acrobat Reader […]

Faculty & Staff

History’s Burden

History’s BurdenAfter decades of neglect, an academic research agenda is being built around health disparitiesBy Ronald Roach R&D Expenditures at Universities and Colleges by Geographic Division R&D Expenditures at Doctoral-Granting InstitutionsandTop Patenting U.S. Universities Special Report Research Adobe Acrobat Reader is required to view the above listed chart(s). If you do not have Acrobat Reader […]

Study Documents Domestic Violence by Race, Income

Study Documents Domestic Violence by Race, Income PROVIDENCE, R.I.Black and Hispanic women, especially Black women in more affluent neighborhoods, are overrepresented in police-reported domestic violence information compiled by the Rhode Island Department of Health, according to a new analysis published in the journal Public Health Reports. Four Brown University researchers found that although Black and […]

Faculty & Staff

When the Name of the Game Is Research

When the Name of the Game Is ResearchAs they say in the academy, “publish or perish.” That’s music to some scholars’ ears. Nothing is more interesting and causes such intellectual stimulation, yet at the same time causes such extreme frustration and stress than their own research — and finding funding. Others would rather spend their […]

The Health of the Nation: Why Affirmative Action Is Needed In Medical School Admissions

The Health of the Nation: Why Affirmative Action Is Needed In Medical School AdmissionsBy Dr. Charles Terrell As we begin to consider possible U.S. Supreme Court rulings in the University of Michigan cases, we seem to miss the point on how truly devastating a ruling that makes race-conscious decisions unlawful would be for our society. […]

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