August 11, 2023

TSU Takes Action to Protect Campus From Extreme Heat

By Alexis Clark With the hottest month ever recorded around the world now over, Tennessee State University says it plans to continue taking precautions to keep the campus community safe.  The University has been proactive all summer long in sharing important information on how to beat the sweltering heat. TSU health officials and emergency management staff

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UVI Welcomes New Students for Fall 2023 Orientation

Courtesy of the University of the Virgin Islands New and transfer students enrolled at the University of the Virgin Islands (UVI) are set to receive a warm welcome next week as faculty and staff on both campuses prepare for the start of the 2023 Fall Semester with events taking place both on and off-campus.  On

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FAMU SBDC Awarded $3M to Boost Minority Entrepreneurs

By Andrew Skerritt The Florida A&M University-based (FAMU) Florida Small Business Development Center (FSBDC at FAMU) received $3 million as part of the Biden administration’s Capital Readiness Program (CRP) initiative to promote small and minority owned businesses. The grant, combined with $1 million in FAMU matching funds, will be used to establish the Florida Panhandle

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Kamala Harris Rallies Gen Z on Gun Reform & Youth Issues

By Lynn Sweet When Vice President Kamala Harris is in Chicago on Friday to headline the Everytown for Gun Safety conference, she will hold, before she speaks, an off-the-books private meeting with a small group of young gun violence prevention activists. Unreported until now, Harris — who has youth voter turnout in her portfolio —

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Morehouse Med Students Named 2023 White House HBCU Scholars

Courtesy of Morehouse School of Medicine Morehouse School of Medicine is proud to announce that two of its students have been selected as part of the 2023 cohort of HBCU Scholars by the White House Initiative on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence, and Economic Opportunity through Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Ndidi Ude and Emmanuel Dean are

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DNA Links Enslaved at Catoctin Furnace to 41,799 Relatives

Not far from Camp David, the U.S. presidential retreat in Catoctin Mountain Park in Maryland, lies the remnants of an iron forge called Catoctin Furnace founded in the late 18th century, an important site for understanding the dawn of the Industrial Revolution in early U.S. history. The site now also is providing unique insight into

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Howard Welcomes New Med Students at White Coat Ceremony

By Brooke Brinson During the short white coat ceremony to welcome new medical students, Howard University College of Medicine Dean Andrea Hayes Dixon said she hoped that the future of medicine would be less about the color of the doctor’s skin and more about how they could provide healing and treatment. “I hope there comes

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