Nearly every student across two Alcorn State University summer history classes failed part of their midterm after falling for an AI trap hidden in their assignment. Dr. Jason Gibson, a history professor at the Mississippi-based Historically Black College and University, secretly embedded the word “Madagascar” in white font within an essay prompt asking students to compare the
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Courtesy of Howard University Howard University keeps stacking research wins, and the latest one comes straight from the Pentagon. Dr. Karam Jaradat, an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Howard, recently received a $780K Howard University DoD grant from the United States Department of Defense. The one-year award funds his project titled Unraveling the
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By Charlie Reed NASHVILLE, Tenn. (TSU News Service) – Tennessee State University has achieved a historic milestone in campus innovation, executing its first faculty research licensing agreement. The deal transitions a novel food-processing technology from the lab to the marketplace through FloUV Technologies, a startup co-founded by Dr. Ankit Patras, professor of food and biosystems engineering. The agreement allows
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North Carolina A&T State University has been approved to offer a new Ph.D. program in bioengineering through its College of Engineering. It will be the first stand-alone doctoral degree in bioengineering offered at a historically Black university. The new Ph.D. program features two concentrations: neurotechnology and neural engineering and molecular, cellular, and systems engineering. These
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By Hayya Shah As industries evolve and workforce demands shift, Howard University’s College of Engineering and Architecture (CEA) is introducing three innovative academic pathways designed to prepare students for emerging opportunities in technology, infrastructure, and engineering management. Beginning in Fall 2026, students will have access to a new university-wide Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence Certificate, a construction engineering
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The HBCU research coalition known as AHRI is here, and Black higher education hasn’t seen a coordinated move like this in a long time. Fifteen historically Black colleges and universities officially launched the Association of HBCU Research Institutions on April 29, 2026, at Howard University in Washington, D.C. The coalition — backed by a $1.05
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Miles College psychology major, Trinity Collier, a NSF-funded UJIMA Collective research scholar, earns a coveted spot in the nationally competitive Geospatial Intelligence Program. Hosted by Harris-Stowe State University in St. Louis, Missouri, the highly competitive program brings together students from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) across the nation to explore careers in geospatial intelligence, geographic information systems
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By Hayya Shah Howard university civil and environmental engineering assistant professor Karam Jaradat, Ph.D., was recently awarded a $780K grant from the United States Department of Defense to support his innovative work on the thermal behavior of soils in extreme environments. The one-year grant will fund his research project Unraveling the Grain-Scale Mechanism of Soil
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The Thurgood Marshall College Fund’s Dr. N. Joyce Payne Research Center recently published a new report examining the research infrastructure, faculty capacity, and federal funding competitiveness at 47 historically Black colleges and universities and predominantly Black institutions across 22 states, Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Combined, the institutions included in the study secured at least
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By Hayya Shah Amazon Web Services recently announced the selection of Howard University as one of five regional lead institutions for the AWS–Machine Learning University (AWS-MLU), enabling the creation of the Howard AI Network powered by AWS. Through the network, Howard will advance AI research, expand infrastructure and capacity, and help other colleges and universities build sustainable AI readiness
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