1. Vertex hepatitis C drug works in African Americans

2. Dr. Dudley Weldon Woodard (1881-1965): Educator and Mathematician

3. Sierra Leone: U.S. $5 Million Bunce Island Project to be Launched

4. Op-ed Article to the Wall Street Journal by the President of Hampton University

5. Report: Racial inequalities persist online By John D. Sutter, CNN

6. Two Black scholars elected to the Inst. of Medicine

7. Frequency of foot disorders differs between African-Americans and whites

8. Jefferson researchers receive W.W. Smith Charitable Trust

9. Engineering as cool as ice cream

10. LSU NOMAS Chapter outshines others around the nation

11. Life and afterlife of a woman who will live for ever

12. Science and Engineering Alliance Honors NMSI for Minority Achievement

13. Better teaching can help shrink achievement gap between black and white students

14. Chester Engineers Celebrates 100 Years of Providing Clean Water and

15. Samuel Oboh

1. Vertex hepatitis C drug works in African Americans

By The Associated Press

Monday, November 1, 2010

Vertex Pharmaceuticals reported over the weekend that its experimental hepatitis C drug candidate telaprevir successfully treats African Americans, a group that has traditionally not responded to other therapies. Read More: Bioscience Technology

2. Dr. Dudley Weldon Woodard (1881-1965): Educator and Mathematician

by Leshell Hatley in Mathematics, Scholarly Celebrations

Posted on 03. Nov, 2010

When Dudley Weldon Woodard (1881-1965) enrolled in the Graduate School at Penn in 1927, he had already accumulated a remarkable set of achievements. He had published his University of Chicago master's thesis in mathematics, "Loci Connected with the Problem of Two Bodies" and had been teaching mathematics at the collegiate level for two decades. He had been a member of the faculty for seven years at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama; for six years at Wilberforce University in Ohio; and since 1920, at Howard University, then the most prestigious African American university in the country. At Howard, he also held the post of Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.

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3. Sierra Leone: U.S. $5 Million Bunce Island Project to be Launched

2 November 2010

Concord Times (Freetown)

Freetown - Bunce Island, the 18th century British slave castle located in the Freetown harbour near Pepel, will finally get the attention it deserves with the launching of a $5 million historical preservation project sponsored by the Bunce Island Coalition (BIC). Read More: All Africa 

4. Op-ed Article to the Wall Street Journal by the President of Hampton University

TO THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

BY WILLIAM R. HARVEY

PRESIDENT OF HAMPTON UNIVERSITY

CHAIRMAN, PRESIDENT'S ADVISORY BOARD ON

HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES (HBCUs)

A recent Wall Street Journal article by Jason Riley questioned the relevance of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in today's society. He complained about President Obama's conventional approach to HBCUs and opined that "instead of more subsidies and toothless warnings to shape up," the President and federal government ought to "...remake these schools to meet today's challenges." Read More: Black Americans

5. Report: Racial inequalities persist online

By John D. Sutter, CNN

November 8, 2010

(CNN) -- Despite widespread increases in use of broadband internet, the Web today still doesn't accurately represent the racial demographics of America.

That's the take-away from a report on U.S. broadband adoption, published Monday by the Department of Commerce. Read More: CNN

6. Two Black scholars elected to the Institute of Medicine

Posted: Monday, November 8, 2010 11:52 am

The Louisiana Weekly

The Institute of Medicine was established in 1970. Its mission is to serve as adviser to the nation to improve health. The institute provides unbiased, evidence-based, and authoritative information and advice concerning health and science to policymakers, professionals, leaders in every sector of society, and the public at large. Election to membership is an honor but carries with it a commitment to public service.

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7. Frequency of foot disorders differs between African-Americans and whites

November 8, 2010

Science Blog

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - Common foot disorders such as flat feet, corns and bunions are more prevalent among African Americans than in whites, a new study by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers has found. Read More: Science Blog

8. Jefferson researchers receive W.W. Smith Charitable Trust

by administrator

November 8, 2010

Science News

PHILADELPHIA

Molecular biologist Jonathan Brody, Ph.D., assistant professor, Department of Surgery; and Gregory E. Goney, Ph.D., research assistant professor, and member of the Daniel Baugh Institute for Functional Genomics/Computational Biology in the Department of Pathology, Anatomy and Cell Biology at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University have been awarded a W.W. Smith Charitable Trust medical research grant. This one-year grant awards $100,000 to their group to help support their innovative cancer research, and one of the questions they will address is why African-Americans respond poorly to common chemotherapeutic agents used to treat pancreatic cancer. Another question this grant will address is what genes in cancer cells are regulated upon stressful conditions such as chemotherapeutic treatments.  Read More: Eurekalert 

9. Engineering as cool as ice cream

By Rosemary Winters

First published Nov 08 2010 06:25PM

Updated Nov 8, 2010 11:16PM

The Salt Lake Tribune

More than 500 students at Salt Lake City's Bryant Middle School learned Monday that chemistry can be both delicious and fun. Aided by a team of engineers, the middle schoolers mixed up their own batches of vanilla ice cream and Silly Putty.

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10. Louisiana State University National Organization of Minority Architects Chapter outshines others around the nation

By Maggie Robert

NOMA, The National Organization of Minority Architects, was recently awarded the 2010 chapter of the year.

Read More: Tiger Weekly

11. Life and afterlife of a woman who will live for ever

Her cells have been used in genetics for 50 years. Now her story is a publishing triumph

Rex Features                                                 Henrietta Lacks died of cancer in 1951 and she was buried in an unmarked grave - The Independent

By Rob Sharp, Arts Correspondent

Wednesday, 10 November 2010

Henrietta Lacks, the poor black tobacco worker who died in 1951 without knowing that her cells would be used to treat millions of patients through vaccines and research, could be the most important woman in modern medicine. Last night, she extended her dominance to the publishing industry.

Read More: The Independent

12. Science and Engineering Alliance Honors National Math and Science Initiative for Minority Achievement

National Math and Science Initiative

The Science and Engineering Alliance (SEA), an alliance of historically black colleges and universities, spotlighted National Math and Science Initiative (NMSI) for its success in raising minority scores in math and science at its 20th anniversary dinner on October 15, in Washington, D.C. Read More: National Math and Science Initiative 

13. Better teaching can help shrink achievement gap between black and white students

By Neil Schoenherr

November 10, 2010

The achievement gap separating black and white students has been known and studied for a number of years. However, new research focusing on black males shows the gap may be much bigger than originally thought.

Read More: Washington University in St. Louis 

14. Chester Engineers Celebrates 100 Years of Providing Clean Water and Environmental Solutions to the World

The Company also moves into a New World Headquarters

Proudly celebrating 100 years of providing clean water and environmental solutions to the world... Chester Engineers, Inc., a member of the ATS Group, is a leading engineering services firm that provides water and wastewater solutions to public and industrial clients across the United States and internationally. Chester Engineers, headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, since 1910, has offices in strategic U.S. markets and affiliates worldwide. Read More: Pittsburgh Urban Media

15. Samuel Oboh

November 10, 2010

Who's Who in Black Canada.com

Samuel Oboh is a Canadian architect and the 2007-2008 President of the Alberta Chapter of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada. He is a registered architect licensed in the state of Texas (USA), in the province of Alberta, and in South Africa.

Read More: Who's Who in Black Canada