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Section: Health

They’d Liketo Thank the Academy…

They’d Liketo Thank the Academy…For 10 years, Dr. Regina M. Benjamin volunteered her services at a rural health clinic she founded in southern Alabama, moonlighting in emergency rooms to support herself and the clinic.Her efforts went largely unheralded until Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Rick Bragg featured her in a 1995 New York Times story, “Angel in […]

November 8, 2000

University of California To Require Students To Get Health Insurance

University of California To Require Students To Get Health InsuranceSAN FRANCISCO University of California regents voted last month to make insurance a mandatory requirement for students, believed to be the first such requirement by a major U.S. university system. The insurance issue stemmed from concerns about the estimated 40 percent of undergraduates who have inadequate […]

October 11, 2000

Leadership & Policy

EPA Cracks Down On Campuses to Clean Up

EPA Cracks Down On Campuses to Clean UpLINCOLN UNIVERSITY, Pa.A new kind of SWAT team is surfacing on campuses that can ruin even the toughest college president’s day. The special weapon? Environmental law. The special tactics? Big fines. If the hunt uncovers pollution violations, the price tag can rival the impact of a drug bust, […]

September 13, 2000

Faculty & Staff

Grants & Awards

Grants & AwardsFlorida Memorial College recently received a $500,000 grant from the Florida Department of State’s Division of Cultural Affairs. The grant was awarded to enhance the future Florida Memorial College Performing Arts Center, specifically Phase I of the project, which includes construction of an orchestra pit and increased seating capacity.Morgan State University has received […]

September 13, 2000

Faculty & Staff

Public Health Imperative: Prescription For Change

Public Health Imperative: Prescription For ChangeNew public-health schools at Black colleges offer chance to graduate more Black studentsJACKSON, Miss. — Growing up in the Mississippi Delta, Rodrick Jordan saw firsthand how poverty and inadequate health care debilitated and diminished the lives of Black people he knew. That early exposure to deprivation and disease inspired Jordan […]

July 5, 2000

BI What’s New

Nearly 450,000 students play college sports each year. But there are fewer than 3,500 allied health-care providers on hand daily to provide for their safety. That’s one allied health-care provider for every 138 collegiate athletes.Now there are new guidelines, established by the National Athletic Trainers’ Association, that will help colleges and universities in estimating the […]

June 7, 2000

Grants & Awards

Grants & AwardsJackson State University has received a $9 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control to research and develop intervention programs for Blacks infected with HIV. The programs will help community-based organizations to use the most recent, scientific research and cultural data to tailor HIV interventions to specific populations at risk.The president of […]

June 7, 2000

Warning: PCs Can Be Hazardous to Your Health

Warning: PCs Can Be Hazardous to Your HealthUnless one happens to drop on your head, personal computers can’t kill you. But they can hurt you pretty badly. In fact, computers can be a pain in the neck, the back, the wrists and the eyes.Every year, nearly 2 million people suffer work-related musculoskeletal disorders, including repetitive […]

April 26, 2000

Leadership & Policy

BI What’s New

Morgan State University in Baltimore has begun a doctorate/master’s degree program in public health that is designed to produce advanced public-health practitioners with primary prevention competencies that can deal with the health problems faced by urban communities. According to a university prospectus: “A primary objective of the … program in public health is to provide […]

April 26, 2000

African-American

Washington Briefs

Congress Hears Support For Completion GrantsWASHINGTON — Leaders of the TRIO community made their case for new college completion grants before a congressional committee late last month.The plan, part of President Clinton’s budget, would provide $35 million for such completion grants, which would help students enter and stay in college. Colleges that participate in the […]

April 26, 2000

Team-Based Learning for Health Professions Education

Faculty & Staff

Southern Faculty Upset Over Administrative Salary Hikes

Southern Faculty Upset Over Administrative Salary Hikes BATON ROUGE, La. — The Southern University board’s recent decision to give eight top administrators huge pay hikes has prompted the faculty senate to deliver a “no-confidence” vote and a professor to launch a nine-day hunger strike in protest. Sudhir Trivedi, an associate professor of computer science, pitched […]

April 12, 2000

Tales of Major Significance

Tales of Major Significance Process doesn’t always make perfect and the final choice is not always the last option.For Jesse Willard Thompkins III, a Dean’s List freshman at Columbia University in New York, the process of choosing a major is just beginning. And so far, it has been a tumultuous one.“It already is very stressful,” […]

April 12, 2000

High Hopes for Health Bill

High Hopes for Health BillWASHINGTON — Support is growing in Congress and the Clinton administration for legislation that would increase the status of the federal office on minority health — and, in the process, create new funding opportunities for Black college medical schools.Among other goals, the Health Care Fairness Act provides new support to academic […]

February 2, 2000

Professional Appointments

Professional AppointmentsDr. Lisa M. Porche-Burke has been selected to become the new president of Phillips Graduate Institute in Encino, Calif. She comes to Phillips after having served as chancellor of the California School of Professional Psychology in Los Angeles. Porche-Burke earned a bachelor’s in psychology from the University of Southern California and a master’s and […]

January 19, 2000

BI What’s New

The University of Missouri-Columbia has instituted a new Minority Biomedical Researchers Training Initiative designed to recruit and train underrepresented minority graduate students as researchers. The initiative is being funded by a four-year, $1.27 million grant from the National Institutes of Health.The program will provide fellowships for 20 non-degree graduate students, 20 graduate research assistants and […]

November 10, 1999

Preparing Graduate Students to Teach

Medical Research Grants Shortchange HBCUs, but Science Bill Looks Promising

Medical Research Grants Shortchange HBCUs, but Science Bill Looks PromisingWASHINGTON — Historically Black colleges are getting just a small piece of the medical research pie, says Rep. Danny Davis, D-Ill., who is trying to see that Congress takes some action on the issue this fall.HBCUs in 1997 received less than 1 percent of all higher […]

November 10, 1999

BI What’s New

Marymount College in Tarrytown, N.Y., has introduced a new health psychology concentration — an area of study that considers the ways physical, social, emotional and behavioral functions all play a role in a person’s health.Students will be prepared for careers as biofeedback technicians, stress reduction trainers, research assistants and health maintenance organization counselors. They will […]

September 29, 1999

The Digital Divide Isn’t The Only Gap

The Digital Divide Isn’t The Only GapPerhaps because we are racing toward a new millennium burdened by the problems of the last century or so, analysts are dissecting the new divides without coming to grips with the old ones.There is much discussion, for example, of the digital divide — the difference in access that African […]

September 1, 1999