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Spelman College, a historically Black women’s college in Atlanta, has received a $2.5 million grant from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to establish the Spelman Strategic and Security Studies Center. As an affiliate of the...
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John Thabiti Willis has been named the inaugural Kesho Scott Endowed Chair in African Diaspora Studies at Grinnell College in Iowa. He comes to his new role from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, where he is an associate professor of history...
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Simmons College of Kentucky, one of two HBCUs in Kentucky, is the latest institution to join the University Press of Kentucky consortium. The consortium is a nonprofit scholarly publisher that focuses on the humanities and social sciences, as well as...
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Danielle Speller, assistant professor in the William H. Miller III Department of Physics and Astronomy in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, has received the Joseph A. Johnson Award for Excellence from t...
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Albany State University, a historically Black educational institution in Georgia, has launched a new master’s degree program in integrated biotechnology. The program will be available beginning in the Spring 2025 semester. The innovative STEM d...
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Norris “EJ” Edney III has been appointed associate dean of students for belonging and communities at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. He comes to his new role from Talladega College in Alabama, where he served as vice presid...
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Nathan Howard Cook, longtime professor and administrator at historically Black Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Missouri, passed away on November 1. He was 85 years old. Dr. Cook began his career in education with teaching appointments at Oklaho...
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The Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University has named Ellen Johnson Sirleaf as the tenth recipient of the O’Connor Justice Prize. Established in honor of the late United States Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day OR...
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In partnership with the National Science Foundation, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Minority University Research and Education Project (MUREP) has recently awarded a total of $7.2 million in grant funding to six minority-se...
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The Southern Education Foundation has recently released a new report, Miles To Go: The State of Education for Black Students in America, which outlines the key challenges and opportunities facing Black students in early childhood, K-12, and postsecon...
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Robert Jones, the first African American chancellor of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, has announced he will step down at the end of the current academic year. Since assuming his role nine years ago, Dr. Jones has overseen a 26 percent i...
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A study led by the University of California, Riverside and Georgetown University has found a link between financial instability in midlife and lower cognitive function among older Black Americans. The study leveraged over two decades of data on over...
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Debra L. Haggins has been named the inaugural dean of the School of Religion at Hampton University, a historically Black institution in Virginia. Dr. Haggins was appointed as university chaplain and pastor of the Memorial Church at Hampton University...
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A new study published in the Journal of Consumer Research has examined how consumers respond to advertisements featuring interracial couples compared to same-race couples. The authors asked a sample of 4,956 participants to review several ads on Face...
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The Barry Prize for Distinguished Intellectual Achievement is the premier recognition of excellence in scholarship by the American Academy of Sciences and Letters. This prestigious annual prize, open to scholars across diverse fields and disciplines,...
