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African-American
Temple University’s Medical School Leads a Crime-fighting Team
The center’s interdisciplinary team consists of faculty from throughout the university, including the schools of education and business, the law school and the college of criminal justice.
October 31, 2011
Asian American Pacific Islander
Disaggregation Key to Fighting ‘Model Minority’ Myth for Asian-Americans, Pacific Islanders and Native Hawaiians
New report focuses on topics that range from the toxic hazards faced by large numbers of Vietnamese immigrant women working in America’s myriad nail salons, to the “bamboo ceiling” said to exist for Asian-Americans working in federal government.
October 30, 2011
African-American
Dillard University Gets $25M from National Institutes of Health
The National Institutes of Health is giving Dillard the money to invest, with endowment earnings used to improve labs, hire faculty members and recruit and support students for the research.
October 25, 2011
Leadership & Policy
Rx for Success: Xavier Ranks Among the Top Producers of Black Students Accepted by Medical School
With growing minority health needs across the state and in the Delta, compounded by Katrina, Xavier University president Norman Francis announced that the school in 2012 will begin offering undergraduate degrees in public health.
October 18, 2011
Tenure
Appreciation: The Moral Integrity of Derrick Bell
The heroic life of Derrick Bell demonstrates that even in the most difficult of circumstances, it is possible to protect one’s moral autonomy, an Eckerd College political scientist writes.
October 17, 2011
Faculty & Staff
National Science Foundation Reports Low Minority Representation on STEM Faculties
Minority doctoral holders are still poorly represented as faculty members within the ranks of American academe, a new study says.
October 17, 2011
Health
Lipscomb University Trying To Draw More Into Nursing Field
Lipscomb University is now offering an undergraduate nursing program on its campus and plans a new $8.5 million nursing building to draw more people into a field that continues to have shortages.
October 10, 2011
Community Colleges
Michigan’s Community Colleges See Fewer Students
Enrollment at Michigan’s 28 community colleges is down 4 percent compared with last fall, according to school data collected by the Michigan Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers.
October 2, 2011
Health
AIDS Remains Public Health Challenge 30 Years After its Discovery
Three decades after AIDS was officially recognized by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, experts reflect on efforts to eradicate the disease and to create awareness about how it is transmitted.
September 29, 2011
Students
AIDS Education Tour Hits Howard U. during Nation’s Football Classic Weekend
Tour organizers say they want to leverage attendance at HBCU homecomings and football classics to help promote health and wellness, while marketing a condom company that they describe as socially responsible.
September 11, 2011
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Leadership & Policy
Black Scientists Lag Whites in Government Funding
Just 1.5 percent of NIH applicants were Black; the study shows when applications were rejected, Black researchers were less likely than Whites to revise their work and try again, suggesting a lack of mentoring.
August 21, 2011
Raynard Kington
Health
Minnesota Program for Immigrant Doctors Loses Funding
State lawmakers eliminated funding for the $150,000 program during the last-minute negotiations.
August 9, 2011
Liban Farah and Jibril Elabe
Health
AIDS Research Pioneer James Hildreth Moving On From Meharry
Dr. James E.K. Hildreth leaves Meharry Medical College to lead College of Biological Sciences at UC Davis.
July 17, 2011
James Hildreth
Community Colleges
The Middle College School Comes to Maryland
The Academy of Health Sciences — located on the campus of Prince George’s Community College — is part of a network of schools established under the auspices of the Middle College National Consortium and is the first such academy to be established in Maryland.
July 11, 2011
Academy students
African-American
Sickle Cell Treatment Clinic at University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Answers Community Need
The disease affects about 1,000 people in Arkansas and new treatments have allowed those with the disease to live into their 50s, 60s or beyond, and the goal is to improve their quality of life.
June 1, 2011
Sickle cell testing
Health
East Carolina University, Churches Address Obesity
The Prosper Project, a three-county initiative conducted by East Carolina’s Brody School of Medicine, aims to wage a spiritual as well as a physical battle against diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
May 12, 2011
Haywood Parker
African-American
Connecticut Hospital Teams With Tuskegee University on Cancer Study
Saint Francis Hospital and Tuskegee University have announced a partnership to study why prostate cancer has a disproportionately high death rate among African-American men.
April 25, 2011
Roberta Troy
Health
Summit promotes minority health
After more than 2,000 people attending the fifth annual Minority Health Summit on Saturday were urged to find a family physician, fitness and motivational expert Donna Richardson Joyner got them all up on moving around.
April 17, 2011
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