By Amir Vera, The MacArthur Foundation announced its class of 2021 Tuesday that includes an anti-racist author, a civil rights activist and a computational virologist. Colloquially known as the “genius grant,” MacArthur fellows are awarded a $625,000, no-strings-attached grant paid out over five years. Since 1981, 1,061 people have been named MacArthur Fellows, according to the
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By Leah Asmelash and Homero De La Fuente, For months, NBA stars and executives have pushed for every player to get vaccinated. Though 90% of the league is vaccinated, according to a CNN source, there are still a few holdouts — and it could cost them. Unvaccinated NBA players who do not comply with local vaccination mandates
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By Winston-Salem State University newsroom, Back in the fall of 2019, LaMonica Sloan Wilhelmi and senior staff members at Winston-Salem State University were brainstorming, searching for ideas to help provide more career development options for students. The innovative ideas from that session laid the groundwork for what turned into a $1.2 million Job Corps Scholars
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Written by Xavier University of Louisiana newsroom, Xavier University of Louisiana announced that Myriad Genetics (MYGN:NASDAQ), a leader in genetic testing and precision medicine, will support its new Genetic Counseling Program with a donation focusing on the advancement of healthcare equity, data and informatics. Myriad Genetics’ support is among the university’s first collaborations designed to
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By Jeremy Diamond, President Joe Biden on Thursday named 10 nominees to the federal bench, continuing his efforts to diversify the judicial branch with picks who would notch demographic firsts on their respective courts. The eighth slate of federal judicial nominations brings Biden’s total to 53 nominees, nearly three-quarters of whom are women, a White House official told CNN. Fifteen
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By Scottie Andrew, The National Inventors Hall of Fame lineup is full of familiar faces: Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, the Wright brothers and Eli Whitney, along with many other mostly White men. Joining them in the next class of inductees are two Black women inventors who changed the way we work and see. Marian Croak and the late Dr. Patricia Bath will
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By Emmanuel Freeman Tennessee State University recently showed its appreciation for frontline workers in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic by gifting more than 2,500 potted African Violet plants to healthcare workers at several hospitals, clinics and other facilities in the Nashville metro area. Representing TSU President Glenda Glover, the Dean of the College of
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Written by Felecia M. Nave, Fred A. Bonner and Chance Lewis Numerous reports assert that the United States must increase its production of highly educated workers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields in order to maintain its competitive edge in the global marketplace (Committee on Equal Opportunities in Science and Engineering 2004; National
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By Clare Foran, Government funding expires at midnight and Congress has not yet passed a stopgap funding bill to avert a shutdown, though Democratic leaders are on track to do so later Thursday. Lawmakers are racing the clock with the Senate and House both expected to vote to approve a short-term funding patch to keep the
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