1. Minorities in Marine Biology: The Dearth of Black Professors
2. STEM Spotlight: Technology With Human Sensibilities
3. ExxonMobil Foundation and The Harris Foundation Make National "Dream Tour" Stop in Cleveland
4. Minority Engineering Association Urges National Focus on Community College Students
5. Vigorous exercise reduces breast cancer risk in African-American women
6. Hopkins, Morgan promote diversity in reproductive science
7. Rural African Americans And Education: The Legacy Of The Brown Decision
8. Cancer Cells Removed from a Woman Helped Save Millions of Lives
9. Neighborhoods can have depressing effect on health, according to Iowa State study
10. National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering Convenes Experts on Capitol Hill to Discuss America's Critical Need for Engineers and Scientists
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1. Minorities in Marine Biology: The Dearth of Black Professors
By Kevin Zelnio
October 1st, 2010
At the next conference, symposium or faculty meeting you attend take a good look at the landscape around you. Are the halls dotted with a variety of trees or are you drowning in a sea of monotony? Read More: Deep Sea News
2. STEM Spotlight: Technology With Human Sensibilities
Advice and news about careers, education, and business opportunities in science and technology
Imagine receiving a text message that you don't use your hands or eyes to intercept. The obvious solution is to use your ears. While scientists have created phones that read text messages aloud, most of those concepts don't take human behavior into account. If a text message is made audible using a computer software but is written using shorthand--e.g., LOL (laugh out loud) and SMH (shaking my head)--then the receiver will most likely pick up the phone to read the message if it wasn't translated correctly. That defeats the purpose of making the message hands-free. Read More: Black Enterprise
3. ExxonMobil Foundation and The Harris Foundation Make National "Dream Tour" Stop in Cleveland
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Oct. 1, 2010, 10:00 a.m. EDT
Program Introduces 5th-8th Grade Students to the Wonders of Math and Science
CLEVELAND, Oct 01, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Former U.S. Astronaut Bernard Harris gave students and teachers in Cleveland a first-hand experience with the wonders of science, technology, engineering and mathematics when "The Dream Tour, presented by ExxonMobil" made its seventh stop of 2010 on October 1 speaking at Charles A. Mooney School to 900 5th-8th grade students from Benjamin Franklin, Charles A. Mooney, Denison and William Cullen Bryant schools. Read More: Market Watch
4. Minority Engineering Association Urges National Focus on Community College Students
by Reginald Stuart , September 30, 2010
WASHINGTON - A national engineering science group, citing the surge in minority student enrollment in community colleges, says more emphasis should be placed on two-year college students as a key to boosting science, technology, engineering and math degree candidates and graduates. Read More: Diverse Education
5. Vigorous exercise reduces breast cancer risk in African-American women
2 October 2010
Vigorous exercise of more than two hours per week reduces the risk of developing breast cancer in postmenopausal African-American women by 64 percent, compared to women of the same race who do not exercise, according to researchers at Gecometown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center. Results were presented at the Third AACR Conference on The Science of Cancer Health Disparities, held Sept. 30 to Oct. 3, 2010. Read More: Eureka Alert
6. Hopkins, Morgan promote diversity in reproductive science
October 6, 2010
Scientists from Johns Hopkins Children's Center and Morgan State University have joined forces to increase diversity in reproductive research using a $3.2 million federal grant.
The grant from the National Institutes of Health will allow five researchers from the institutions to partner on research projects. It will also be used to recruit and train minority students with interest in reproductive science research. Read More: Baltimore Sun
7. Rural African Americans And Education: The Legacy Of The Brown Decision
By: caroladams
Oct 7, 2010
This Digest addresses several key questions: What is the condition of rural African Americans today? What was the Brown decision and how did it impact the educational opportunities of rural African American children? What factors currently impact rural African American achievement? And finally, how might educators improve outcomes for these students? Read More: Ezine
8. Cancer Cells Removed from a Woman Helped Save Millions of Lives
by Savitha.C.Muppala
October 06, 2010 at 6:59 PM
An African/American woman has occupied a pride of place in medical science,after the cancer cells removed from her body following her death in 1951,has helped save millions of lives.
Henrietta Lacks, a tobacco farming mum-of-five, was a descendant of slaves and died of cervical cancer in a segregated ward at John Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, as black and white patients were barred from mixing.
Read more: Cancer Cells Removed from a Woman Helped Save Millions of Lives MedIndia
9. Neighborhoods can have depressing effect on health, according to Iowa State study
October 6, 2010
AMES, Iowa - The nation's poverty rate climbed to 14.3 percent - the highest level since 1994 - according to the Census Bureau's annual report on the economic well-being of U.S. households. That means one in seven Americans now live in poverty, and that may have an especially depressing effect on people living in bad neighborhoods, according to two Iowa State University researchers. Read More: Science Blog
10. National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering Convenes Experts on Capitol Hill to Discuss America's Critical Need for Engineers and Scientists
Congressmen Payne and Holt Join Administration Officials and NACME Leadership to Address Issues Facing U.S. and Minorities in Science, Technology, Education and Math Education
WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering, Inc. (NACME), the leading supporter of minority higher education in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), this week brought together a distinguished group of Members of Congress, Administration officials and academics to look at the overall status of STEM education in the United States today, the legislative landscape and workforce issues. Read More:
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