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Section: Health

Georgia HBCU Researches How to Tenderize Goat Meat

Changing “chewy” texture of the meat could position it as the nation’s next health fad, researchers say.

December 26, 2007

Grants and Gifts

California State Polytechnic University has received a two-year, $600,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to aid the university in producing more graduates specializing in cyber security. Educators will be able to enhance their curricula with this grant and encourage students to get into the new field. California State University, Northridge has received a $23,500 […]

December 26, 2007

Grants and Gifts

Meharry Medical College-Center for Women’s Health Research (Tenn.) has received a $1 million gift from the Wal-Mart Foundation. The funds will help advance work in diseases that disproportionately affect women of color. Michigan State University has been awarded a $2.3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to help seasonal and migrant worker youth […]

December 12, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Golden News Nuggets

With nearly 500 degree-granting institutions in the state of California, Diverse couldn’t cover them all, but instead offers a few school snapshots.

December 12, 2007

Number of Mental Health Patients Banned From Buying Guns Doubles Since Virginia Tech Shootings

WASHINGTON The number of people barred from buying guns because of mental health problems has more than doubled since a deranged student shot to death 32 students on a university campus last April, the Justice Department said Thursday.

November 29, 2007

Grants & Gifts

The COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF BALTIMORE COUNTY has received a three-year grant totaling more than $745,000 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to make the college’s nursing program available online. CCBC will begin offering this online nursing program in the fall of 2008. EASTERN MENNONITE UNIVERSITY (Va.) has received $399,649 from Higher Education […]

November 28, 2007

Addressing the Mental Health Ailments Facing Black College Students

BALTIMORE If the walls of Cicely Evans’ office could talk, they would tell of the mental health ailments facing Black college students, including domestic violence, depression, anxiety, stress, unresolved issues of homosexuality and thoughts of suicide.

November 28, 2007

Delaware State Shooting Shows Gaps in Campus Violence Prevention Programs

Immediately after the shooting that later claimed the life of Shalita Middleton, 17, Delaware State University officials utilized many of the lessons learned from the Virginia Tech massacre, and responded by quickly locking down the campus and notifying students and staff. But what do campuses do to prevent the violence in the first place?

November 17, 2007

At Germanna CC, Students Nurse Human-patient Simulators

LOCUST GROVE Va. Increasingly, students in the medical field can learn to tend to patients before setting foot in a hospital.

November 15, 2007

From the Classroom to the Boardroom

When Thurgood Marshall College Fund officials discovered that corporations were not recruiting students at Black colleges as aggressively as students enrolled in traditionally White institutions, they sought a solution.

November 14, 2007

Charting the Course

Rutgers’ Office for Diversity and Academic Success in the Sciences provides step-by-step guidance to help aspiring minority physicians fulfill their dream.

November 14, 2007

No Place Like Home

Passed over for the chancellorship at the University of Massachusetts Boston in 2005, Dr. J. Keith Motley is a classic example of “good things come to those who wait.”

November 14, 2007

Community Colleges

Community Colleges Are Portals to New Career Paths

In today’s ever-changing business climate, college-educated professionals are increasingly transitioning to new careers with community college degrees and certificates.

November 14, 2007

Community Colleges

Community Colleges Are Portals to New Career Paths

In today’s ever-changing business climate, college-educated professionals are increasingly transitioning to new careers with community college degrees and certificates.

November 12, 2007

Report: US Slips in Gender Equality Survey; Muslim Countries at Bottom

NEW YORK The United States slipped in this year’s scorecard measuring equality between women and men while Nordic countries remained at the top of the list and Muslim countries at the bottom.

November 8, 2007

Pitt Gets Grant to Research, Improve Black Health

PITTSBURGH The University of Pittsburgh is getting a $4.8 million grant to create a research center to improve the health of the city’s black population.

November 8, 2007

Bill Introduced to Lower Campus Birth Control Prices

A new bill introduced in the U.S. Congress this week would reduce the cost of birth control for college students and low-income women nationwide.

November 7, 2007

Iowa College Students Protest Cost of Birth Control Pill

DES MOINES, Iowa More than 400 Iowa college students have signed a petition protesting federal legislation that has made getting birth control more expensive.

November 5, 2007