Biotechnology has become a pillar of national resilience. Once considered niche, fields like synthetic biology, pathogen genomics, computational biology, and environmental microbiology now sit at the heart of U.S. biosecurity strategy, economic competitiveness, and geopolitical influence. Yet the nation’s training infrastructure remains dangerously underdeveloped. While the United States has invested billions in biomanufacturing facilities and domestic production
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Born May 14, 1955, Marian Rogers Croak is an African American engineer who was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame for her work. Ever heard of VoIP? VoIP stands for Voice over Internet Protocol — it’s a technology that lets you make phone calls over the Internet instead of traditional telephone lines. Still
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Secure the Senator Bill & Tracy Frist Endowment Scholarship for research grants in planetary and human health at Meharry About Meharry Medical College Meharry Medical College, founded in 1876, is the nation’s largest private, independent historically Black academic health sciences center dedicated solely to educating minority and other health professionals. True to its heritage, it
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By Rob Stein President Trump issued an executive order Monday restricting federal funding for research that involves a controversial field of scientific study known as “gain-of-function” research. The research, which is also known as “dual-use” research, involves experimenting with viruses and other pathogens that have the potential to trigger a pandemic. Those studies could discover
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Courtesy of Alabama State University Montgomery-based HBCU Alabama State University has been designated a Research College and University (RCU) by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, one of only 216 institutions nationwide to hold this classification. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the American Council on Education (ACE) is a framework that
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The Trump Administration’s cuts have left a big void in the FAMU College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. U.S. President Donald Trump’s sweeping attack on diversity, equity, and inclusion will certainly adversely affect the Tallahassee HBCU and others as the effects are beginning to reveal themselves. This week’s big headline was Trump’s threat to take funding
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By Lauren Neergaard A federal judge on Wednesday blocked the Trump administration from drastically cutting medical research funding that many scientists say will endanger patients and cost jobs. The new National Institutes of Health policy would strip research groups of hundreds of millions of dollars to cover so-called indirect expenses of studying Alzheimer’s, cancer, heart disease and
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Courtesy of Chicago State University Chicago State University (CSU) recently received two grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) that leverages CSU’s expertise on the Learning Assistant (LA) Model. CSU will be collaborating with lead institutions Oakton College and Tufts University to support effective use of the LA Model, through implementation and education research. (i)
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By Phenix S. Halley There’s a reason Howard University is regarded as “The Mecca.” In historic news, the historically Black university expects to be granted Research-1 (R1) status this upcoming spring, a title the university lost in 2005 after the Carnegie Classification requirements changed, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education. R1 status colleges and universities are at the
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Courtesy of Jackson State University Entergy Charitable Foundation awarded Jackson State University a $2 million grant to establish the Critical Power Grid Network Security Lab. This groundbreaking initiative aims to enhance cybersecurity within the energy sector. The school announced the news during a press conference on Monday, where Entergy Mississippi president and CEO Haley Fisackerly presented JSU
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