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Grants & Gifts

Benedictine University (Ill.) and the College of DuPage (Ill.) will use a three-year, $199,952 grant from the National Science Foundation to help introduce biocalculus to more two- and four-year students at the two institutions. The U.S. Department of Labor has awarded a $500,000 grant to the North Alabama/Southern Tennessee region for the Second Generation of […]

February 21, 2007

Faculty & Staff

The Journey for Jackson State

In recent years, construction cranes have loomed over the bustling campus of Jackson State University. The historically Black school of more than 8,000 students is undergoing a building boom…

February 7, 2007

Faculty & Staff

The Journey for Jackson State

In recent years, construction cranes have loomed over the bustling campus of Jackson State University…

February 7, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Resuscitating MLK/Drew

To this day, the widespread racial disparities that prompted the August 1965 riots in the Watts community of South Los Angeles…

February 7, 2007

Study: Black, Hispanic Children Suffer Bleak Living Conditions

Living conditions experienced by children in the 100 largest U.S. metropolitan areas continues to show a depressing picture for Black and Hispanic children, according to a new report from the Harvard School of Public Health. Another study shows Whites less trusting of foreign-born doctors than Blacks.

January 29, 2007

Project Town Gown

The neighborhood surrounding Rhodes College suffers from high infant mortality rates, among other ills; but the college refuses to stand by and watch its community deteriorate.

January 24, 2007

Morehouse Study: Untreated Prison Illnesses Can Expose Black Communities to Contagious Diseases

Untreated illnesses in a prison population can expose whole communities to the risk of infection from a contagious disease, according to one study. Another study has found that the rates of psychiatric disorder among U.S.-born Latinos have increased substantially over the past decade.

January 18, 2007

Emerging Scholars: Class of 2007

Each year it becomes increasingly difficult to select just 10 Emerging Scholars, because there are so many outstanding scholars of color in the academy who are breaking new ground in research, applying scholarship to public policy and grooming the next generation of leaders and professionals. Diverse’s 2007 Emerging Scholars are doing all of that, while setting records and earning the distinction of being the “first” or the “youngest” to win tenure or some impressive accolade.

January 10, 2007

Emerging Scholars: The Class of 2007

Just 10. Each year it becomes increasingly difficult to select just 10 Emerging Scholars…

January 10, 2007

Emerging Scholars: The Class of 2007

Just 10. Each year it becomes increasingly difficult to select just 10 Emerging Scholars…

January 10, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Investigating Health Disparities

Although many scientists have a passion for research because they enjoy working in a laboratory

January 10, 2007

Troubles continue at UMDNJ As former exec files lawsuit

Troubles at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey persist as the institution, a top producer of minority health professionals, was hit last month with a lawsuit from a former executive who claims he was forced out because he helped uncover allegedly illegal financial practices.

January 7, 2007

Research Round-up

Recent studies show mental illness in Blacks go undetected, residents of Black neighborhoods are more likely to report poor health and minority medical students are usually under more stress.

November 14, 2006

UVa Conference on Hurricane Katrina and Race Looks For Answers

In a biting, angry attack on the Bush administration, NAACP chairman Julian Bond equated the president’s handling of Katrina with a “lynching” of Black people, calling it a “deliberate effort to dispossess Black landowners.”

November 6, 2006

As Michigan Affirmative Action Vote Nears, Campaigns Pick Up

In the final run-up to Tuesday’s mid-term elections, several groups from the college basketball coaches to the police are bombarding voters in Michigan with messages about the impact of the Proposal 2 referendum, which would ban affirmative action in, among other things, college admissions.

November 4, 2006

Serving the Underserved

Efforts to expand diversity in the health professions has received a boost from a prominent member of Congress…

November 1, 2006

Faculty & Staff

Research Round-Up: Impact of Discrimination on Health, Innovative Teaching Methods of Minority Faculty and Racial Disparities in Care For HIV Patients

Racial discrimination may be an important reason why Blacks suffer from higher rates of cardiovascular disorders, diabetes and obesity; faculty of color use more interesting ways of teaching at undergraduate institutions than their White peers; HIV-infected people who have little to no consistent outpatient medical care are overwhelmingly minorities, the poor and substance abusers.

October 31, 2006

College, Student Settle Mental Health Lawsuit

WASHINGTON A former student who was barred from the campus of George Washington University and threatened with expulsion after checking into a hospital with depression has settled a lawsuit with the college, both sides announced Tuesday.

October 31, 2006