Courtesy of the University of the Virgin Islands Aspiring cooks seeking to gain the skills needed to work in a food-service setting are encouraged to register for the Certified Fundamentals Cook (CFC) program now available at the University of the Virgin Islands Center for Excellence in Leadership and Learning (UVI CELL) on the Orville E. Kean Campus
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Courtesy of Morehouse School of Medicine Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) is proud to announce that graduate student Kiandra Smith has been named a Gilliam Fellow by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). Among the 50 new Gilliam Fellows, Ms. Smith is being honored along with her thesis advisor, MSM Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology Jason DeBruyne, PhD. She is
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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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By Todd Simmons North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University’s impact on the state economy is growing as quickly as the university itself, according to a study released today that quantifies that economic footprint at a whopping $2.4 billion. That represents growth of 63% since fiscal year 2018, the source of data for a similar
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By Andrew J. Skerritt For third-generation Rattler Andrea Pugh-Kelley, walking onstage to be hooded for her Ph.D. was the culmination of a journey of scientific research and environmental justice that began in elementary school. In the aftermath of the city of Flint, Michigan, water crisis, Pugh-Kelley wrote her dissertation on PFAS, an emerging major contaminant in the Great Lakes region. Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances or PFAS are chemicals that resist grease, oil, water, and heat. First used in the 1940s, PFAS are found in hundreds of products, including stain-
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Tou Thao, the last former Minneapolis police officer convicted in state court for his role in the killing of George Floyd, was sentenced Monday to 4 years and 9 months. Thao had testified that he merely served as a “human traffic cone” when he held back concerned bystanders who gathered as former Officer Derek Chauvin, who is white, knelt on Floyd’s neck for
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