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Fanta Conde, Valedictorian of New York’s Baruch College

May 15, 2013 / Business World Index, EDUstation, National

Baruch College is proud to announce that Fanta Conde is this year’s valedictorian. She will join her fellow graduates during the commencement ceremony at Citi Field, home of the New York Mets, on Monday May 30, 2013. Baruch College is a senior college in the City University of New York (CUNY) with a total enrollment of more than 17,000 students, who represent 160 countries and speak more than 100 languages. Baruch College President Mitchel B. Wallerstein will confer the degrees [...]

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Legacy Tribute To Dr. C. DeLores Tucker

May 15, 2013 / African American, EDUstation, National, Politics

The Bethune-DuBois Institute (BDI), an education-focused and solutions-oriented organization founded by the late Dr. C. DeLores Tucker in 1984, will host a Legacy Tribute to her on Wednesday, May 22, 2013. The location is the DoubleTree by Hilton, 8727 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, MD 20910. The time is 6:00 p.m.-9 p.m. Honorees at the tribute will include Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas and Michelle Milliard, Executive Director of the Walmart Foundation. “They have both been deeply involved in missions [...]

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Hampton University Journalism School and Bloomberg Partner to Prepare Students for Careers in Business Journalism and Communications

April 21, 2013 / African American, Business World Index, EDUstation, National

Hampton University’s Scripps Howard School of Journalism and Communications (SHSJC) has partnered with Bloomberg L.P. to prepare students for careers in business journalism and communications. The partnership, which is launching this spring with a new Scripps Howard School course in business journalism, includes a grant towards the establishment of a financial newsroom, complete with digital stock tickers, computers and access to the Bloomberg Professional Service, the product that revolutionized the way financial news, data and analytics are delivered to financial [...]

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Clark Atlanta University’s Dr. Valerie Odero-Marah, receives National Cancer Institute grant

April 15, 2013 / Business World Index, EDUstation, National, Spotlight

Clark Atlanta University (CAU) announced this week that Dr. Valerie Odero-Marah, associate professor and researcher in the Center for Cancer Research and Therapeutic Development (CCRTD), has received a new grant of $289,494 from the National Cancer Institute to support her research. Her project, titled “The Role of SNAIL Signaling in Prostate Cancer Metastasis,” will be conducted for the next three years. African-Americans have the highest bone density as compared to any other race. This project will study whether SNAIL protein [...]

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Harvard Medical School Surgeon Dr. Oneeka Williams releases children’s book

April 9, 2013 / Business World Index, EDUstation, National, Spotlight

“Dr. Dee Dee Dynamo’s Mission to Pluto is an imaginative, creative story for children. Using modern surgery to rescue Pluto in space is enchanting. Young readers will be entertained and educated by Dr. Dynamo’s space adventure. The beautiful illustrations enhance the impact of this delightfully compelling story. I highly recommend it.” Alvin F. Poussaint, MD, Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School Great For All Kids! Dr. Dee Dee Dynamo is truly the embodiment of everything I hold dear,” says [...]

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Remembering Chinua Achebe

March 26, 2013 / Business World Index, EDUstation, National

Chinua Achebe, the David and Marianna Fisher University professor and professor of Africana studies at Brown University, recently died in Boston on March 21, 2013. Achebe, among the world’s greatest writers of his time, joined the Brown faculty in the fall of 2009. He was the Nigerian-born novelist and poet who wrote the classic “Things Fall Apart.” Achebe, the David and Marianna Fisher University Professor and professor of Africana studies, joined the Brown faculty in September 2009. Best known for [...]

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Efficacy Institute launches its 2013 Student Success Program

March 21, 2013 / EDUstation, National

SSP 2013 will be offered at Bentley University in Waltham, MA – June 24-28, 2013. Success NOW – SSP (Student Success Program) is an innovative program that equips students with the tools needed to help them navigate to a lifetime of success. This 5-day residential experience for students entering grades 8-12 who attend academically rigorous schools will get students on the fast track to college and beyond. The program will be held at Bentley University, Waltham, MA from June 24 [...]

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Check out the new W.E.B. Du Bois statue at Clark Atlanta University

March 21, 2013 / African American, Business World Index, EDUstation, National

Recently at the “W.E.B. Du Bois and the Wings of Atlanta Commemorative Conference” held at Clark Atlanta University, CAU President Carlton E. Brown (left in long coat) and Arthur McFarlane,great-grandson of Dr. Du Bois (right), unveil a bronze bust of Du Bois by renowned sculptor Ayokunle Odeleye. Thefour-day international conference explored the legacy of the scholar, author and social engineer who served CAU as a faculty member and administrator for 23 years. Photo credit: Horace Henry

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Clark Atlanta University (CAU) will celebrate its 2013 Founders Day

March 18, 2013 / African American, EDUstation, National

Clark Atlanta University (CAU) will celebrate its 2013 Founders Day with an address by renowned educator, CAU trustee and alumna Delores Aldridge, Ph.D., on Thursday, March 21. “Celebrating Our Legacy: A Past to Cherish; A Future to Fulfill” is the theme for Founders Day, which will kick off the celebration of the 25th anniversary of the university. In 1988, CAU was formed from the consolidation of two prestigious and historic institutions, Atlanta University, the nation’s first African-American graduate school, founded [...]

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