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DEREK DOUGHTY

DEREK DOUGHTY has been named assistant ombuds at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He previously served as case manager and liaison to athletics at the university. Doughty earned a bachelor’s degree from Amherst College and a master’s degree from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and will complete his Ph.D. in 2018.

December 13, 2017

JESSICA MANN

JESSICA MANN has been named director of the Center for Community-Engaged Teaching and Research at Duquesne University, effective December 1. She previously served as associate dean for student engagement and deputy Title IX coordinator at Seton Hill University. Mann holds a doctorate degree from the University of Pittsburgh, a master’s degree from Duquesne and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Pittsburgh.

December 13, 2017

MILTON OVERTON

MILTON OVERTON has been named director of athletics at Kennesaw State University. He previously served as director of athletics at Florida A&M University. Overton earned a bachelor’s degree and two master’s degrees from the University of Oklahoma.

December 13, 2017

Ignore Race

Sickle cell anemia was first described in 1910 and was quickly labeled a “black” disease. At a time when many people were preoccupied with an imagined racial hierarchy, with whites on top, the disease was cited as evidence that people of African descent were inferior. But what of white people who presented with sickle cell […]

December 13, 2017

Compound Stops Progressive Kidney Disease

Progressive kidney diseases, whether caused by obesity, hypertension, diabetes, or rare genetic mutations, often have the same outcome: The cells responsible for filtering the blood are destroyed. Reporting in Science, a team led by researchers from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Harvard Medical School describes a new approach […]

December 13, 2017

PTSD Veterans Struggle to Get Service Dogs

For 10 years, Adam LeGrand was a medic in the Air Force. Then he was injured in rollover accidents and by a pallet of cinderblocks falling on him in Qatar. He developed post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury (TBI) and became suicidal. “The VA [Veterans Administration] put me on a dangerous cocktail of drugs,” […]

December 13, 2017

GOP Steps Up Push for More Funds for Obamacare Marketplaces

Senate Republicans are increasingly resolved to infuse more funding into the Obamacare marketplaces, even as they work on a parallel measure to undermine the health-care law by erasing its mandate to buy coverage. In an email sent to senators Tuesday night, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) promised imminent action on a pair of measures […]

December 13, 2017

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Why Are Pregnant Black Women Dying?

On a melancholy Saturday this past February, Shalon Irving’s “village” — the friends and family she had assembled to support her as a single mother — gathered at a funeral home in a prosperous black neighborhood in southwest Atlanta to say goodbye and send her home. The afternoon light was gray but bright, flooding through […]

December 13, 2017

Suits Target Diet Soda Industry’s Ads

Advertising campaigns behind diet drinks from Coca-Cola, Pepsi and Dr. Pepper have long promoted the idea that consumers are taking the healthier, more weight-conscious option when it comes to choosing their favorite sodas. Diet Coke emphasized its drink has “no sugar, no calories.” Diet Pepsi tried launching its slender “skinny” can only a handful of […]

December 13, 2017

States Press Medical Marijuana Users to Give Up Guns

Twenty-nine states and Washington D.C. now allow patients to have access to medical marijuana, but some of these patients are bumping up against a federal law that prohibits the sale of guns to people who use marijuana. Authorities in Pennsylvania and Hawaii have spoken out last week, declaring that people who have medical marijuana licenses […]

December 13, 2017

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Obamacare Options Dwindle for Neediest

WASHINGTON — Josh Brookhart has four health insurers to choose from in Seattle’s King County for 2018, more than many Americans like him who buy coverage on the Obamacare individual market. Yet none of the plans cover all the complex medical care needed for his seven-year-old son, Gabriel. Read More

December 13, 2017

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A Letter to Today’s Undergrads

Ph.D. student pens a letter to undergraduate students.

December 12, 2017

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Herman J. Felton, Jr., Appointed President of Wiley College

A day after Dr. Herman J. Felton Jr., announced that he would step down as president of Wilberforce University–opening the way for his current provost to take the top position– the board of trustees at Wiley College announced that they’ve tapped Felton to lead their college headquartered in Marshall, Texas.

December 12, 2017

Saint Anselm College Eliminates Application Fee for First-Generation Students

A New Hampshire college seeks to increase diversity by immediately eliminating the enrollment application fee for first-generation students.

December 12, 2017

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Educational Leaders from Around the Globe Converge on Hong Kong to Strategize About Solutions

The Yidan Prize recognizes individuals whose work makes profound contributions to education research and development, with the ultimate aim of creating a better world through education.

December 12, 2017

Brown University Replaces Loans with Scholarships

Starting in the 2018-2019 school year, Brown University will replace all loans with scholarships for incoming freshmen and continuing undergraduates.

December 12, 2017

Killing the Future

We are witnessing the death of the information age. There is a continued assault on education from this administration and its cronies. Efforts to privatize and silo education, tax graduate students for their education benefits, and the looming threat of net neutrality reversal, all seem to take aim at learners, benefiting the pockets of some […]

December 12, 2017

Veteran Joblessness Rose in November

After two months of record lows, veteran unemployment ticked upward last month, according to the latest U.S. labor statistics released Friday. Four percent of veterans were unemployed in November, marking the second highest unemployment rate of 2017 since January’s 4.5 percent. Bureau of Labor Statistics data also show unemployment among post-9/11 veterans rose by 1 […]

December 12, 2017

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