By Claretta Bellamy The historic Fruit Belt neighborhood on Buffalo’s East Side, with its Grape, Peach and Lemon streets, was once thriving. Yet now, in place of the orchards that once gave the area its name, there are abandoned homes with broken steps and “no trespassing” signs, overgrown empty plots of land and a troubling
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By Kyle Kidd Jackson State University (JSU) College of Science, Engineering, and Technology hosted the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) for the inaugural Pre-Medicine Day. The event presents undergraduate and graduate students with an opportunity to explore the variety of programs and curriculums at UMMC. Wilbur Walters, Jr. Ph.D., dean of the College of
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Courtesy of Delaware State University Delaware State University has received a five-year, $18.36 million research grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that will support the establishment of the Interdisciplinary Health Equity Research (IHER) Center on campus. This NIH funding is the largest research grant ever awarded to Delaware State University in its 131-year history,
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By Jackie Torok Understanding the need for a student development model that contributes to the diversification of the nation’s STEM workforce, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University is using a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to implement the Preparing Future Minority Ph.D. Researcher (PFMPR) Bridge to the Doctorate (BD) program. N.C. A&T received the two-year,
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By D. Thompson Allison Seymour, an Emmy award-winning anchor at WUSA TV 9 News, will address over 400 graduates at Bowie State University’s Fall Commencement ceremony on December 22, at 9 a.m. at the Leonidas S. James Physical Education Complex. She currently anchors WUSA’s early morning show Get Up DC. Seymour began her career in
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By Kenneth Mullinax Alabama State University’s National Center for the Study of Civil Rights and African-American Culture (National Center) presents its Ralph D. Abernathy Civil Rights Lecture Series on Monday, Dec. 5, from 5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. virtually on YouTube and on Facebook @ CivilRightsCenter. The program honors America’s modern Civil Rights Movement that
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Courtesy of the Howard University Newsroom Howard University, a historically Black research university in Washington, D.C., and 5 For The Fight, a global non-profit dedicated to ending cancer, today announced a new partnership to create the next generation of diverse cancer researchers. The 5 For The Fight Cancer Research Internship is a 10-week summer internship program that will
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Courtesy of Hampton University In an article published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, recent Hampton University graduate Dr. Debajyoti Basu Sarkar and Professor, Dr. William B. Moore from the Department of Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences report that rocky planets with a hot surface likely do not have plate tectonics like the Earth. Most of Earth’s
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