Written by Lexx Thornton Winston-Salem State University (WSSU) has been awarded a $1.3 million Biomedical Engineering, Imaging, and Technology Acceleration (BEITA) Program grant from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB). The funding will support the first three years of a new project launching on August 1, 2025. If successful, the program could
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Written By Lexx Thornton Shaw University is proud to continue its partnership with The James Patterson Family Foundation, founded by acclaimed author and philanthropist James Patterson, for the 2025–2026 academic year. Through a $75,000 gift, the foundation will fund 10 scholarships valued at $7,500 each to support Shaw students in their academic pursuits. Shaw University
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Written by Lexx Thornton What started as a proposal on paper has turned into a multimillion-dollar reality at Livingstone College. Dr. Anthony Davis, president of Livingstone College, announced on Tuesday to a crowd gathered at Aggrey Student Union that an anonymous donor had made another $10 million gift. “Investments like this are why Livingstone will
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Written by Lexx Thornton Dr. Aditi Pai, special assistant to the Office of the Provost and a professor of biology, was elected vice president (North America) of the International Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE). Dr. Pai started her two-year term in November 2024. “This is the largest disciplinary society in my field, and
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Written By Lexx Thornton Winston-Salem State University students will soon have more opportunities to take part in cutting-edge research in organic synthesis and green chemistry, thanks to a $400,000 grant from the National Science Foundation awarded to Dr. Fenghai Guo, professor of organic chemistry and provost fellow for Research & Sponsored Programs. The goal of
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Written By Lexx Thornton South Carolina State University has reaffirmed its commitment to student success through a new $1.5 million federal grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Education. The competitive TRIO Student Support Services grant, awarded for a five-year cycle beginning Sept. 1, 2025, will provide academic and personal support to low-income, first-generation college
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Written By Lexx Thornton Getty Images, a preeminent global visual content creator and marketplace, has announced a first of its kind genealogy focused partnership with Ancestry, the global leader in family history, and Lincoln University, the nation’s first Historically Black College and University to grant degrees. As part of Getty Images’ HBCU Grants Program, this
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Written by Lexx Thornton One of the core functions of Lincoln University’s College of Agriculture, Environmental and Human Sciences (CAEHS) is to address emerging animal and plant pests and diseases. As part of this effort, Lincoln partners with the 1890 Universities Center of Excellence for the Global Food Security and Defense Symposium, a collaboration among
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Written By Lexx Thornton The University of the Virgin Islands (UVI) is proud to announce its selection as one of 35 colleges and universities nationwide to join the Amazon Machine Learning University Educators Consortium, a groundbreaking initiative by Amazon Web Services (AWS) aimed at accelerating artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) education across higher
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Written By Lexx Thornton Two Lincoln University of Missouri graduate students, Monika Pokharel and Ujjwal Kamboj, got recognized for their research and professional development in June at the 77th annual meeting of the American Phytopathological Society (APS) North Central Division in Brookings, South Dakota. Both students are pursuing master’s degrees in sustainable agriculture and began
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