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Students

Ricks’ Teen Pregnancy Work Born Out of Personal Experience

When she was just 15, Dr. Nila Ricks, selected by Diverse as a member of the 2017 Class of Emerging Scholars, discovered that she was pregnant. For many, this might have meant the end of high school and the end of any college aspirations.

February 26, 2017

Health

Professor has Taken a Selfie Nearly Every Day for 30 years

BOSTON — Long before they were called selfies, Karl Baden snapped a simple black and white photo of himself. Then he repeated it almost every day for the next three decades. Baden’s “Every Day” project officially turns 30 on Thursday and he says he has no intention of stopping. The stark contemplation on mortality and […]

February 23, 2017

Students

West Virginia U. Offers Tuition Incentive to Nursing Students

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — West Virginia University is offering tuition incentives in hopes of increasing the number of highly trained nurses in the state and beyond. The WVU School of Nursing says it will offer in-state tuition for all students — regardless of residency — to enhance opportunities for nurses through the online Registered Nurse to […]

February 21, 2017

Students

Scholars: At its Core, Feminism Universal

Black transnational feminisms simply means understanding the ways in which Black women across nationalities are faced with many of the same issues.

February 20, 2017

Students

Disabled Student Fires Back Against North Dakota University

FARGO, N.D. — A student with cerebral palsy has filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights after she was denied admission into the pharmacy program at North Dakota State University. Kelli Sem was given conditional acceptance into the program last spring, provided she could meet physical requirements under newly […]

February 6, 2017

Women

Tyesha Burks Takes on Age-defying Mission

Dr. Tyesha N. Burks, selected by Diverse as a member of the 2017 Class of Emerging Scholars, is on a mission to remedy the problem that everyone faces even if they avoid or survive a particular disease: aging.

February 5, 2017

Students

Gates Foundation gives $279M to University of Washington

SEATTLE — The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is awarding $279 million to the University of Washington to expand its work in improving global population health, the largest private donation to the university, officials said Wednesday. The grant funds another decade of research at the university’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, which provides critical […]

January 25, 2017

Students

St. Joseph’s College Gets $1.5M to Address Nursing Shortage

STANDISH, Maine — The Harold Alfond Foundation is providing $1.5 million to Saint Joseph’s College to help create an academic center to address shortages in Maine’s nursing workforce. The foundation is concerned because nearly three-fourths of Maine’s nurses are nearing retirement age at a time when demand for home health care, nursing home and hospital […]

January 23, 2017

Leadership & Policy

Janet Napolitano Hospitalized Due to Side Effects of Cancer Care

SAN FRANCISCO — University of California President Janet Napolitano, a former U.S. Homeland Security secretary and governor of Arizona, has been undergoing cancer treatment for five months and was hospitalized after suffering complications, the school system said. The UC Office of the President said Napolitano, 59, was diagnosed last August but did not say what […]

January 18, 2017

Health

University of Michigan Announces Efforts to Address Poverty

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — The University of Michigan is planning a series of projects that aim to bridge the gap between research and community efforts to prevent and alleviate poverty, the school announced Tuesday. The initiative, called “Poverty Solutions,” will explore and test models to ease the effects of poverty and broadly share that knowledge. […]

January 17, 2017

Health

2017 Most Promising Places to Work in Student Affairs

The University of Vermont and the University of West Georgia are among the 2017 Most Promising Places to Work in Student Affairs, making them the only schools to make the list in each of its four years of existence.

January 12, 2017

Students

Bones of Mengele, ‘Angel of Death,’ Teaching Tool in Brazil

SAO PAULO — For more than 30 years, the bones of Josef Mengele, a German doctor who conducted horrific experiments on thousands of Jews at Auschwitz, lay unclaimed inside a blue plastic bag in Sao Paulo’s Legal Medical Institute. Dr. Daniel Romero Munoz, who led the team that identified Mengele’s remains in 1985, saw an […]

January 11, 2017