Currently, Dr. Jefferson is an associate professor in the history department at the University of Alabama Birmingham and has led the African American studies program at the university.
Tolu Aduroja, an associate professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of Alabama Birmingham, returns to Nigeria each fall at his own expense and provides free health care to patients at a clinic in Ibadan.
Here is this week’s news of grants to historically Black colleges and universities or for programs of particular interest to African Americans in higher education.
Lisa McBride is chief diversity officer at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. Carlton Young was named assistant dean at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine and Dickens Mathieu was appointed senior vice president and general counsel at Syracuse University.
Dr. Jack is an associate professor in the department of management, information systems, and quantitative methods and has been serving as interim dean since October.
Here is this week’s news of grants to historically Black colleges and universities or for programs of particular interest to African Americans in higher education.
The goal of the StoryCorps Griot Initiative is to record for prosperity the stories of the city’s residents who participated in the historical civil rights movement in the early 1960s.
The research, conducted at the University of Alabama Birmingham, shows that despite a steady decline in fatal coronary heart disease for all groups, since 2000, the racial gap has actually increased.
The graduation rate of Black male students who join the initiative is about twice the rate for Black men as a whole at the university.
African Americans in Alabama are twice as likely as Whites to suffer from vision impairment and eye disease, particularly cataracts, glaucoma, and diabetic retinopathy.
He is an associate professor in the department of management, information systems, and quantitative methods. He has also served as associate dean of the business school since 2008.
Here is this week’s news of grants to historically Black colleges and universities or for programs of particular interest to African Americans in higher education.
Olivio Clay and Shantel Hebert-Magee receiving funding for their research projects.
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