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University of Rochester to Give Frederick Douglass Honorary Degree Posthumously

Frederick Douglass — the former Maryland slave who later emerged as a prominent abolitionist leader — will receive an honorary doctorate posthumously next week from the University of Rochester.

May 9, 2018

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Tuskegee Names Lily D. McNair as President

The selection of Dr. Lily D. McNair as Tuskegee University’s eighth president is being hailed by university community members as precisely who the institution needs to ensure its future legacy in higher education.

May 9, 2018

University of California Nurses, Cooks Strike for Third Day

SAN FRANCISCO — Thousands of University of California nurses, pharmacists and other medical staff joined walkouts by service workers again Wednesday, forcing medical centers to close and reschedule thousands of appointments and surgeries. The three-day strike was called last week by American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3299 when the union and […]

May 9, 2018

Amid #MeToo, More Colleges Host Women As Graduation Speakers

This graduation season, the podium is all hers. For the first time in at least two decades, the majority of the nation’s top colleges are featuring women as their spring commencement speakers, a shift that industry experts credit to the wave of female empowerment that has fueled the #MeToo movement. Yale is bringing Hillary Clinton. […]

May 9, 2018

David Hogg Is Postponing College to Push Gun Control

PARKLAND, Fla. — Marjory Stoneman Douglas student David Hogg says he wants voters to know which lawmakers are backed by the National Rifle Association before the mid-term elections. The #NeverAgain leader and high school senior says he’s postponing college for a year to engage in gun-reform activism, focusing mostly on getting students and others registered […]

May 9, 2018

Mothering Behind Bars

As we grow older, Mother’s Day evokes grief over the loss of grandmothers and other mother figures who have made their transition. Yet for 2 million children in the United States, this Mother’s Day reveals the human costs of our addiction to incarceration.

May 9, 2018

Where Health Aide Shortage Hits Hardest

The shortage of home health aides in the industry is no secret, but the exact pace of demand will far exceed the supply of health care workers over the next few years, according to a new report from Mercer. The number of new job openings for home health aides by 2025 is expected to reach […]

May 9, 2018

Toward Inclusion

In 2011, the National Institutes of Health urged all university clinical research centers to increase minority recruitment for medical trials. In response, the Yale Center for Clinical Investigation developed the Cultural Ambassadors program, an initiative that “had potential to bend the curve,” or, in other words, to change the way in which minorities engage with […]

May 9, 2018

Toward Inclusion

LGBTQ Patients Reveal Their Struggles with Medical Care

Erin Armstrong was just 20 years old when — during an ordinary bike ride — she felt a shooting pain in her chest. It was 2005 and Armstrong, a transgender woman, had recently begun taking hormones as part of a male-to-female transition. But it wasn’t going exactly as planned. She had been to a doctor […]

May 9, 2018

Roll Back Transgender Protections

How Coffee Shop Racism Harms Black Patients

A couple of weeks ago, two black men entered the Philadelphia Starbucks store to meet a friend, and have a conversation, just like many of us usually do. Unlike many of us, however, they were arrested for trespassing – after minutes of taking their seats. A phone call – that lasted only 30 seconds – […]

May 9, 2018

Harming Black Patients

Contraceptive for Men? Stops Sperm from Swimming

A compound called EP055 binds to sperm proteins and significantly slows the overall motility of the sperm without affecting hormones. The finding, which appear in PLOS ONE, suggest EP055 could be a candidate for contraceptive pill for men that’s free of side effects. “Simply put, the compound turns-off the sperm’s ability to swim, significantly limiting fertilization […]

May 9, 2018

Male Contraceptive

Panel: Racial Health Disparities Deeply Embedded

Panelists from the Mankato medical community Monday said much work remains in eliminating racial health disparities. The discussion was part of the Greater Mankato Diversity Council’s latest Write on Race gathering at the Verizon Center. The journaling project focused on race and health in its most recent quarter. Minnesota consistently ranks well among states in […]

May 9, 2018

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House Panel OKs Plan to Expand VA Private Care

A House committee approved a wide-ranging plan Tuesday to give veterans more freedom to see doctors outside the Veterans Affairs health system and fix a budget crisis in its troubled Choice private-sector program, a major step toward fulfilling President Donald Trump’s promise to expand private care options. The $51 billion plan includes $5.2 billion to […]

May 9, 2018

Expand VA Private Care

Shedding Light on Asian American and Asian Students’ Mental Needs

The “Let’s Talk!” conference at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) recently convened Pan-Asian college students, supporters and other educational leaders for a day-long forum addressing the success and well-being of Asian and Asian American college students across the country. Now in its third year, the conference — created as a passion project by […]

May 9, 2018

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African King to Give Commencement Speech at Ohio University

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — An African monarch with a special connection to a small Ohio university will visit to give the school’s commencement speech. The Springfield News-Sun reports Lesotho’s King Letsie III will travel to Springfield to speak at Wittenberg University Saturday. Wittenberg history professor Scott Rosenberg has taken hundreds of students on service trips to […]

May 8, 2018

Mexican Authorities Dispute U.S. College Student Was Murdered

BOSTON – The family of an American college student who died on spring break in Mexico says he was murdered, but Mexican authorities say that’s untrue. The Mexican government told The Boston Globe Monday that Amherst College senior Andrew Dorogi was found dead on train tracks in Mexico City on March 15. The government says […]

May 8, 2018

Charles Steger, Former Virginia Tech President, Dies at 70

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Former Virginia Tech President Charles Steger Jr., who led the institution through a period of great change and faced both criticism and praise for his leadership during a 2007 mass shooting, has died, the university announced Monday. He was 70. Steger, a Virginia Tech graduate who spent most of his professional […]

May 8, 2018

Community College Classes Resume After Shooting Threat

HOUSTON – Houston Community College Central Campus will reopen for business as usual Wednesday after it was closed Monday and Tuesday while authorities investigated a shooting threat made on social media over the weekend. Finals will resume as scheduled with the exception of the Monday, May 7, exams, which are postponed to Friday, and the […]

May 8, 2018