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Texas A&M University Board of Regents approve formation of nutrition institute led by AgriLife Research

A new institute in the Texas A&M University System aims to connect agriculture and health in an effort to reduce chronic illness attributed to diet. The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents approved the formation of the Institute for Precision Nutrition, Responsive Agriculture and Health last week. The institute will be led by Texas […]

January 21, 2019

$10.4M grant to UH researchers links environmental microbiomes to human health

The buzz over a recent $10.4-million grant to five junior researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa is about much more than mosquitoes. The funds from the National Institutes of Health Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) support the first center focusing on the interface between environmental microbiomes and human health. Read More

January 21, 2019

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Medical Students Push For More LGBT Health Training To Address Disparities

When Sarah Spiegel was in her first year at New York Medical College in 2016, she sat in a lecture hall watching a BuzzFeed video about what it’s like to be an intersex or a transgender person. “It was a good video, but it felt inadequate for the education of a class of medical students, […]

January 21, 2019

OSU Receives $2.5M Gift From JPMorgan Chase to Support Students of Color

JPMorgan Chase has announced that it will continue it’s over five decade’s long relationship with Ohio State University (OSU) with a $2.5 million investment in two of its programs that support academic success for students of color.

January 21, 2019

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Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Donates $31K to Bennett College

Bennett College has received a $31,000 donation from Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., the country’s oldest African-American fraternity, to support its journey of raising at least $5 million by Feb. 1. In addition to the donation, “Alpha men around the world are going to make contributions” to the college, said Dr. Everett B. Ward, the president […]

January 21, 2019

JCPS, Simmons College Partner to Increase Teacher Diversity

Staying true to the mission of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCU), Simmons College of Kentucky will partner with Jefferson County Public Schools (JCPS) to increase and retain the number of minority teachers in the district.

January 19, 2019

Dr. Frank Smith Jr.

Defying Stereotypes

January 18, 2019

A High Note in Neuroscience

January 18, 2019

A Focused Future

January 18, 2019

Making Biostatistics Relevant

January 18, 2019

Encouraging Economic Empowerment

January 18, 2019

A Math Wiz

January 18, 2019

Teaching Social Justice

January 18, 2019

Building Infrastructure

January 18, 2019

Floriza-Bornasal

A Drum Major in Art History

January 18, 2019

Andrew Gillum to Become Harvard University Resident Fellow

Former Tallahassee mayor Andrew Gillum will join Harvard University as a resident fellow at its Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics. Gillum, who previously lost to newly elected Gov. Ron DeSantis in the 2018 Florida gubernatorial race, will be joined by nine resident and visiting spring semester fellows. The other visiting fellows include former Republican U.S. […]

January 18, 2019

Recruitment & Retention

University of Southern Maine Unveils new Possible Recruitment Strategy, Changing its Name

Administrators at the University of Southern Maine (USM) are contemplating changing the school’s name in an effort to attract more out-of-state students. University president Dr. Glenn Cummings proposed the idea at a recent news conference referring to the decline in in-state student enrollment and that it has no choice but to focus their recruitment efforts on students outside […]

January 18, 2019

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Georgia Southern University Names New President

The University System of Georgia Board of Regents has appointed Dr. Kyle Marrero president of Georgia Southern University, effective April 1. Marrero will succeed Shelley Nickel. Currently, Marrero is the president of the University of West Georgia (UWG) and chairman of the steering committee for Georgia Southern’s Comprehensive Administrative Review which serves to evaluate administrative […]

January 18, 2019