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GRANTS & GIFTS
The American Council on Education has given ALBRIGHT COLLEGE $200,000 for winning one of its 2009 Alfred P. Sloan Awards for Faculty Career Flexibility. The award will allow Albright to expand and enhance flexible career paths for faculty. The AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND received $40,000 from the Kalliopeia Foundation for scholarships. The award will provide […]
January 6, 2010
Faculty & Staff
NEUROBIOLOGY : Free To Express And Contribute
For Dr. Gonzalo E. Torres, scientific research — and academia in general — is about the freedom to break away from the herd.
January 6, 2010
Students
MATH : Life In Absolute Values
As a high school student in East Los Angeles, Dr. Erika Tatiana Camacho didn’t know what ganas looked like. She aspired to only one thing: becoming a store cashier.
January 6, 2010
Students
LAW : Challenging Tradition
As a young Indian-American growing up in mostly White southern New Jersey, Madhavi Sunder’s most vital links to her cultural heritage included her uncles, aunts and cousins who emigrated from India to the United States.
January 6, 2010
Faculty & Staff
LAW : Native American Law and Order
University of Idaho law professor Angelique EagleWoman first became interested in the law after her African-American uncle was assaulted by a group of deputies and subsequently awarded $75,000 in punitive damages.
January 6, 2010
Students
ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES : The Internationalist
Count Dr. Michael K. Dorsey as a scholar whose experience as an advocate on behalf of poor and marginalized peoples is as formidable as the expertise he demonstrates while teaching and conducting research in his capacity as an assistant professor of environmental studies at Dartmouth College.
January 6, 2010
Students
ENGLISH : Matters Of Culture And Community
Title: Associate professor of English, University of Minnesota Education: Ph.D. and M.A., anthropology, University of Michigan; B. A. Princeton University Age: 39 Career mentor: Toni Morrison Have you always wanted to be a writer? “If I wasn’t allowed to be me, I would be the musician Prince.” “Be unafraid! Strike out in new directions for […]
January 6, 2010
Students
EDUCATION: Representative Research
Dr. Luis Urrieta Jr. Draws distinct lines to separate his professional life from his personal life, but his work is, in fact, personal to him.
January 6, 2010
Faculty & Staff
COMPUTER SCIENCE: Computing For Cures
When Dr. Yaohang Li’s parents steered him as a teenager toward a computing career, it didn’t douse any of his passion for laboratory sciences.
January 6, 2010
LGBTQ+
AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES & EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY: Untangling The Web
You may face rejection and naysayers, but that voice that says “no” should not be inside of you.
January 6, 2010
Faculty & Staff
Athletes Play for Pride, Coaches Get Bonuses
The players at Texas and Alabama will compete tonight for the chance to be called national champions and for a beautiful crystal trophy to be placed outside their locker room while their coaches stand to make hundreds of thousands of dollars.
January 6, 2010
STEM
Obama Announces STEM Teacher Training Initiative
President Barack Obama announced a $250 million initiative Wednesday to train math and science teachers and help meet the goal of pushing America’s students from the middle to the top of the pack in those subjects in the next decade.
January 6, 2010
Native Americans
Tribal College Educator Raises America’s Multiethnic Profile
Muckleshoot Tribal College education resource coordinator Louie Gong leads nonprofit organization MAVIN, which builds pathways to healthier communities by celebrating the mixed-heritage experience.
January 6, 2010
Opinion
Completion By Design or By Chance?
Completing college should not be synonymous with a “roll of the dice,” but too often it is. How many of us were asked during college orientation to look to the left and right of us, because only one of the three of you was going to make it to graduation? Given our national goal to […]
January 5, 2010
Faculty & Staff
Faculty Union Files Grievance with University of Hawaii
HONOLULU – The union that represents University of Hawaii faculty on Monday filed a class grievance directly with university president Dr. M.R.C. Greenwood, demanding she retract her letter of last week to faculty about her plans to unilaterally impose pay cuts.
January 5, 2010
Sports
University of Kentucky Set to Name Phillips as Head Football Coach
The University of Kentucky is set to elevate Joker Phillips, a veteran of the Wildcat football coaching staff and a former player, to lead the school’s football team.
January 5, 2010
African-American
Michelle Obama Images Part of U. Of Michigan Race Exhibition
Two contrasting images of Michelle Obama – wearing pearls and smiling, and as a rifle-toting revolutionary – are on display at the University of Michigan as part of an exhibit that considers race and visual representations.
January 4, 2010
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Politics As Usual For The Professoriate
Career scholars routinely tapped for high-level policymaking jobs in government.
January 4, 2010
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