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FSU Highlights NC Child Care Grant with Governor’s Visit

Courtesy of Fayetteville State University Governor Roy Cooper visited and toured the Fayetteville State University Early Childhood Learning Center today to highlight the NC Child Care Stabilization Grants. To date, more than $655 million has been distributed to 4,200 child care facilities across the state to support and retain the early educator workforce. “Investing in early childhood education is one of the most important things we can do for the future of our state,” Governor Cooper said. “These grants are helping provide parents with the time and flexibility to keep and obtain good-paying jobs while ensuring their children are cared for.

Tuskegee Wins NIH Grant to Advance Inclusive Health Research

Courtesy of Tuskegee University Tuskegee University was selected for an All of Us Researcher Academy Institutional Champion award for $75,000 from the National Institutes of Health. This will provide faculty and student stipends for research in health disparities, cardiovascular disease, breast cancer, bioinformatics, and artificial intelligence (AI) bias using the All of Us database on the researcher workbench. Tuskegee University joined the All of Us Southern Network in 2018.  Since then, Dr. Stephen Sodeke has been serving as the Site-Principal Investigator at Tuskegee.  Tuskegee University continues to be rewarded for the work faculty researchers are doing to increase the resources

JSU Surprised With $100K Gift on GMA Homecoming Special

Courtesy of Jackson State University Good Morning America Co-Anchor Michael Strahan traveled to Jackson State University to celebrate Homecoming with the Tigers during a live broadcast of the show. During the broadcast, the University was surprised with the announcement that Mars is donating $100,000 in support of the JSU Emergency Gap Fund. “America’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities like JSU are vital resources in educating an increasingly diverse workforce and the business community can step up to support diversity in higher education,” said Anton Vincent, President of Mars Wrigley, North America. “I am extremely proud to call Jackson home where my parents Dr. George and Pearl

Charles R. Drew University to Launch New Medical School

By Marissa Evans Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science has received preliminary approval from accreditation officials to start taking applications for its own medical school program. University officials hope to open applications for the first medical school class by the first week of November, with the goal of having a class of 60 students entering the program next summer. The historically Black university in Willowbrook received confirmation for preliminary accreditation of its medical school curriculum from the Liaison Committee on Medical Education, the main officials responsible for approval. The process took five years. “It’s just really a big

JCSU Welcomes 375 Visitors for Fall 2022 Open House Event

Courtesy of John C. Smith University Nearly 375 prospective future Golden Bulls and their families made their way to Brayboy Gymnasium Saturday, Oct. 8, 2022, for Open House. After receiving a true Johnson C. Smith University welcome, students were invited to visit informational booths, participate in challenges and watch performances by the IIOS Drumline, Luv-A-Bulls cheer team, Blue Satin, the Untouchabulls and the University concert choir. “This event always brings out prospective students,” said JCSU’s new Director of Admissions Dr. Hamilton Raymond. “I love to show these students what we can offer by getting them information about JCSU and getting

Howard Sets Record With $122M in Research Funding in 2022

By the Howard University Newsroom Staff In 2018, Howard University announced a goal of raising $100 million in grants and contracts for research by 2024. Today, Howard surpassed that goal two years early by raising $122 million in Fiscal Year 2022, a record sum for any Historically Black College or University (HBCU). “Research and academic excellence has always been part of Howard’s identity. We have supported hundreds of leading researchers across disciplines, furthering our collective understanding of the world around us and producing research that has changed the world,” said President Wayne A. I. Frederick, M.D., MBA. “With our new approach to research

FSU Launches NIH-Funded STEM Program for Undergrads

Courtesy of Fayetteville State University Fayetteville State University (FSU) will launch a program to train a diverse talent pool of freshmen and sophomore students for competitive research-focused summer experiences, thanks to a new grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), a division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland. James E. Raynor, Jr., Ph.D., a professor in FSU’s Department of Biological and Forensic Sciences, recently received nearly $250,000 to establish a two-year Scientific Research Preparatory Mentoring Program (SRPMP) to train freshmen and sophomore students from historically marginalized backgrounds for competitive entry into research-focused

Tuskegee Awarded $7.9M for Cancer Genomics Research Center

Courtesy of Tuskegee University Tuskegee University is one step closer to becoming a globally renowned center of excellence in cancer genomics focused on health disparities in underrepresented populations thanks to a $7.93 million grant to build a new biomedical annex to the Carver Research Center facility. The grant proposal, authored by Dr. Clayton Yates, director of the Center for Biomedical Research, and Dr. Channapatna Prakash, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, received one of the highest scores possible of any institution that entered the national competition involving all major research universities. The competition was funded by the NIH

Lincoln University Joins $2.5M Intelligence Career Program

Courtesy of Lincoln University of Missouri Lincoln University of Missouri has joined a consortium of universities preparing college students for careers in U.S. intelligence agencies as part of a $2.5 million grant from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. The grant will fund creation of the new Midwest-Intelligence Community Center for Academic Excellence on the Saint Louis University campus to recruit and educate talented students interested in careers in intelligence and national security. Students at Lincoln, Saint Louis University and Harris-Stowe State University are eligible for the program. The Intelligence Community Center for Academic Excellence program began in

FVSU Grad Student Wins Award for Peanut Toxin Nano Sensor

Courtesy of Fort Valley State University Fort Valley State University graduate student Amber Davenport is surpassing goals and making a name for herself in the science world. Her poster presentation on nanotechnology secured a third-place win at the 11th annual hybrid conference of the American Council for Medicinally Active Plants (ACMAP) at the Inter American University of Puerto Rico this summer. Nanotechnology is an emerging scientific field that impacts food and agricultural systems. This innovative technology manipulates matter on the nanoscale (about 1 to 100 nanometers) to produce new structures, materials and devices. The biotechnology major is using her research

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