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Georgia Student, 19, Found Dead in Dorm

TIFTON, Ga. – A freshman at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College in Georgia has been found dead. The Tifton Gazette cites a college release that went out to students Saturday morning that says 19-year-old Jeremy Bailey was found dead in a dormitory Friday night. The Morrow native’s death is under investigation by the Georgia Bureau of […]

February 5, 2018

Drug Prices

President Trump announced during his State of the Union address that one of his greatest priorities is to reduce the price of prescription drugs. This is a topic that I have written about many times before, but in a limited fashion. Considering President Trump’s specific call to this issue, I thought a more thorough explanation […]

February 5, 2018

Sleepy? Might be Early Sign of Alzheimers’

Dozing off at work could be an early warning sign of Alzheimer’s disease, new research warns. People who dozed off or napped at inappropriate times, even if they got enough sleep, were more likely to have traces of the disease during their brain scans, according to the new study. Read More

February 5, 2018

California Senate Passes Bill to Have College Centers Dispense Abortion Pills

February 5, 2018

P.R. Med Center, Patients Say U.S. Underfunds Programs

MIAMI (CN) – A medical center in Puerto Rico and two of its patients claim in court that the Trump administration is underfunding the health care programs in the U.S. territory, placing nearly 1 million people at risk of losing their health care coverage. In a federal complaint filed Monday in Miami, the plaintiffs claim […]

February 5, 2018

Study: Omega 3 No Help for Heart Disease

Supplements containing omega-3 fatty acids, the oils abundant in fatty fish, are ineffective for the prevention of heart disease, a large review of randomized trials has found. The analysis, in JAMA Cardiology, pooled data from 10 randomized trials in people who had had cardiovascular disease or were at high risk for it. There were 77,917 […]

February 5, 2018

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#BellLetsTalk: Mental Health and Black People

The hashtag movement #BellLetsTalk emerged in 2010 as a segue to open up the conversation surrounding mental illness and to cease the stigma around individuals suffering from depression, anxiety, and other mental ailments. This is great except; the discussion is still a taboo in the Black community. The National Alliance on Mental Health reports that […]

February 5, 2018

Planned Parenthood Slams Rule on Moral Objections

Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider, is encouraging their supporters to tell the Department of Health Human Services (HHS) that a proposed rule to strengthen conscience protections for healthcare providers is “dangerous” and “encourages discrimination.” The rule requires health care providers to notify their employees of protections against religious discrimination on job applications and […]

February 5, 2018

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Half of Post-9/11 Vets Lack Mental Care

About half of U.S. veterans who served during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq don’t get the mental health care they need, according to a new report that recommends changes to improve the care delivered by the Veterans Affairs health system. While many veterans receive good mental health care through the VA , it’s inconsistent […]

February 5, 2018

Tell Them We Are Rising

Director Stanley Nelson’s new PBS documentary tackles the history of HBCUs.

February 5, 2018

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Tom Brokaw Collection Opens to Public at University of Iowa

IOWA CITY, Ia. — Longtime NBC journalist Tom Brokaw has given the University of Iowa thousands of documents spanning his career, and they’re now available to the public. The collection includes a notebook with interview questions for Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev and press badges from Saudi Arabia and the 1992 Republican National Convention. A […]

February 4, 2018

Athlete’s Civil Rights Suit Against Mississippi University in Jeopardy

HATTIESBURG, Ms. — The University of Southern Mississippi wants to dismiss a civil rights lawsuit filed by a former football player. Deven Hammond of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, sued in federal court there in November, saying he was barred from the football team after coaches learned he had only one kidney. He also says USM violated […]

February 4, 2018

Jesuit College: We’re Keeping Controversial Name

WORCESTER, Ma. — After months of discussion, the Board of Trustees at the College of Holy Cross in Worcester, Ma., said Saturday that they have decided to continue to be known as the Crusaders. “While we acknowledge that the Crusades were among the darkest periods in Church history, we choose to associate ourselves with the […]

February 4, 2018

Race, Power, Privilege in the Marketplace Are Focus of Interdisciplinary Network’s Research

A group of scholars has set out to change how marketing researchers understand how race, power and privilege affect marketplace policies and practices.

February 4, 2018

Emerging Scholar Profile: Ramirez Finds That Relationships Remain Key in Psychological and Brain Sciences

In the heady, complex and intense world of neuroscience, Dr. Steve Ramirez thrives on having a research team that finds genuine enjoyment in working together.

February 4, 2018

Does President Trump Care About Higher Ed?

The State of the Union address last week seems so distant now, doesn’t it? Since then, the country’s been put on the path toward a constitutional crisis as debate rages on about the memo released a few days later by the House of Representatives. The government is going paycheck to paycheck with another need for a continuing budget resolution in days. And hanging in the balance is the fate of 1.8 million undocumented people in our country, including nearly 800,000 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) program recipients, also known as “dreamers.”

February 4, 2018

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Getting In

It’s admissions season, and across the country, thousands of admissions officers sit in front of screens, reading files full of transcripts, test scores, extracurricular profiles, letters of recommendation, and, of course, essays. I was once one of these officers, spending emotionally exhausting 12-hour days reviewing thousands of applications from Ivy League hopefuls over a span […]

February 2, 2018

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Dartmouth Business Program Helps Vets

HANOVER, N.H. (AP) — Paul Movizzo spent 30 years in the Navy as an aviator piloting an E-2C Hawkeye early warning radar detection plane, as well as commanding a team involved in electromagnetic warfare. But despite the high-pressure and leadership assignments — which included serving on the U.S. Embassy staff in Baghdad — Movizzo felt […]

February 2, 2018