Courtesy of Jackson State University Jackson State University is the recipient of a $10 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture as announced by JSU Acting President Elayne Hayes-Anthony, Ph.D., during a press conference in the JSU Blackburn Learning Garden on Friday, Oct. 13,.
By Sholnn Z. Freeman October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and the Howard University Cancer Center is hosting a major community event to raise awareness of the disease, the most commonly diagnosed cancer among Black women. The Howard University Cancer Center and Howard University Hospital have
By Reuters After the Writers Guild of America approved a new three-year contract with major studios, Hollywood writers from underrepresented groups, many nervous about their job security in the rapidly changing industry, aim to refocus studios’ attention on increasing diversity. The WGA represents 11,500
By Sarah Gilliland The pandemic revealed many weaknesses in the country’s caregiving infrastructure, exposing both how essential caregiving work is and how hard it can be to find and pay for. These weaknesses undermine robust pandemic recovery and economic development by undercutting
Written by Elizabeth City State University According to department leaders, the grant helps strengthen program offerings with lab upgrades and targeted field and project-based training for students. It will also expose students to renewable energy research, support a summer enrichment program for
By Candace McDuffie Google and Howard University will announce a dynamic partnership entitled Project Elevate Black Voices. The collaboration has one underlying principle: to make it easier for Black folks to use automatic speech recognition technology (ASR). In order to successfully use
By East L. Dockery North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University’s Transportation Institute has recognized its most recent Advancing STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) Education Through Transportation Studies (ASETTS) scholars. ASETTS is a digital badge program funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to enable undergraduate students
by David K. Wilson This week, I held my annual fall Town Hall meeting with the University community. During that meeting, I updated the attendees on a variety of important topics pertaining to our campus, but none more significant than our campus security and
Written By Jackson State University Jackson State University (JSU) and Getty Images (NYSE: GETY), a preeminent global visual content creator and marketplace, are preserving history with the launch of a new photo exhibition, “A JSU Homecoming Legacy: Connecting the Past to the
Courtesy of Xavier University of Louisiana The XULA Archives & Special Collections maintains and meticulously preserves an extensive collection of historic photographs, manuscripts, university records, Catholic artifacts, relics, oral histories, and rare books. Given the university’s historic place as the only majority
