By Kate Martin The hospital where Sharita Godwin works in central North Carolina doesn’t have any Black nurses trained in administering forensic exams to sexual assault victims. She’s aiming to become the first one. Last week, Godwin joined seven other nurses from across the region at Fayetteville State University, as part of the historically Black
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Courtesy of University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff Earlier this summer, the city of Eudora, a rural community in southeast Arkansas, faced multiple challenges with water consumption. As a result, numerous residents experienced having little to no water and various other complications. Seeing the need, UAPB’s Project SEARCH program, along with the Office of Student
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By Matt Harris In the wake of the 2022 U.S. midterm elections, a general sense of the political landscape in the upcoming 118th Congress has taken shape. With Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s announcement that she is leaving the Democratic Party and Sen. Raphael Warnock’s victory in Georgia’s runoff, Democrats will maintain control in the Senate, while Republicans will take control
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By D. Thompson LAIKA Studios executives are visiting Bowie State today to participate in panel discussions, workshops, and other activities in conjunction with the launch of the first stop-motion animation studio at a college or university in Maryland created through a partnership with the Oregon-based company. Bowie State is the only HBCU in the nation
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By Kyle Kidd Jackson State University’s (JSU) College of Engineering, Science and Technology (CSET) recently established a multi-year, three-pronged partnership with Woolpert, an international architecture, engineering and geospatial (AEG) firm. Being one of the first partnerships established between Woolpert and a historically black college and university (HBCU), this unique opportunity serves as a microstudy into the
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Courtesy of North Carolina A&T State University North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University and Alamance Community College (ACC) today kicked off the first Computer Numerical Control (CNC) machining training of its kind in North Carolina. America’s Cutting Edge (ACE), a U.S. Department of Defense program designed to reestablish American leadership in the machine tool industry, provides online
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Courtesy of the Howard University Newsroom Staff Howard University announced today that it will immediately begin providing all of its undergraduate students with free test prep courses for graduate-level admissions exams, including the GRE®, GMAT®, LSAT®, and MCAT®, and free test prep for professional licensing exams including the bar exam, USMLE®, INBDE®, and NCLEX-RN®, for its
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By Barbara Sprunt The House Select Committee investigating the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 is holding what’s likely to be its final public meeting on Monday, wrapping up its year-and-a-half-long inquiry. The panel will vote on criminal referrals against former President Donald Trump on at least three charges: insurrection, obstruction of an official
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By Vanessa Romo Civil rights giant and former U.S. Rep. John Lewis, who spent decades fighting for racial justice, will be honored with a postage stamp next year. In a Tuesday announcement, the U.S. Postal Service said the stamp “celebrates the life and legacy” of the leader from Georgia, who risked his life protesting against
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Courtesy of Morris College Morris College received $410,000 from the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to commence preparing students for a Plutonium Modernization Program (PuMP) at the Savannah River Site in Aiken, S.C. This funding opportunity will help Morris College enhance the technological infrastructure of the Division of Natural Sciences and Mathematics’ STEM Program. Funds
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