Courtesy of Tuskegee University A team of students from Tuskegee University’s Department of Architecture won first place in the National Organization of Minority Architects Student Competition (NOMAS) held in Nashville, Tennessee. The team competed against nearly 30 NOMAS chapters and made history as the first HBCU to win the competition since the inception of the
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By Sholnn Z. Freeman Howard University and Johns Hopkins University are teaming up to develop new medical devices to diagnose, treat, and manage neurological disorders. The partnership’s new NeuroTech Harbor technology is supported by a $5M investment over 5 years by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Experts at the new NeuroTech Harbor (NTH) technology accelerator will partner with
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Courtesy of Morehouse School of Medicine Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) today published the latest edition of its “Danforth Dialogues” podcast, featuring a conversation between MSM’s President and CEO Dr. Valerie Montgomery Rice and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky. Dr. Montgomery Rice and Dr. Walensky had a wide-ranging conversation touching on
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By Ryan J. Rielly The House sergeant at arms, who was the head of the D.C. National Guard during the attack on the Capitol, told the Jan. 6 committee that the law enforcement response would have looked much different had the rioters been Black Americans. “I’m African American. Child of the sixties. I think it
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By Emmanuel Freeman Tennessee State University and a local non-profit were able to spread lots of cheer during the holiday season. The university and Simply United Together partnered again to host Toys for Tots on the campus to make sure hundreds of Nashville children awoke Christmas morning with smiles on their faces. On December 17,
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By Bruce C.T. Wright New light is being shed on Southwest Airlines’ mass cancellations as attention turns to U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Secretary Pete Buttigieg and how his actions, or inactions, factored into the ongoing air travel disaster affecting thousands of passengers. That new light just happens to also be old. Nearly five months before Southwest started
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