March 2024

The Lumina Foundation in Indianapolis has announced the winners of The Great Admissions Redesign. The Great Admissions Redesign seeks to revolutionize the admissions process and increase accessibility to higher education for all students, particularly those not admitted in proportion to their shares of the U.S. population. Melanie Heath“COVID, shifting testing requirements, and legal rulings have […]

Gilead Sciences Inc. has awarded a grant worth nearly $1 million to the Howard University College of Medicine to promote HIV prevention among Black women and girls. Gilead Sciences recently announced awards totaling $12.6 million in grants to the medical school’s Department of Pediatrics and Child Health and 18 other organizations as part of its

The Center for Politics and Race in America at Rutgers University-Newark has been named in honor of the first Black woman in New Jersey to hold statewide office, Lt. Gov. Sheila Y. Oliver, who died while in office Aug. 1, 2023. “Lt. Gov. Oliver’s legacy will continue to inspire our center as we expand access

Yathish RamenaYathish Ramena has been named director of the Center of Excellence in Aquaculture and Fisheries at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. He holds several degrees, including a master’s in aquaculture from Acharya Nagarjuan University in India, a master’s in animal biotechnology from Bharathidasan University in India, and a doctorate in aquaculture from

Dr. Maisha T. Winn has been elected to a leadership post at the American Educational Research Association (AERA). Dr. Maisha T WinnThe association announced that Winn will join the AERA Council as president-elect in 2024–2025, ahead of her presidency, which begins at the conclusion of the association’s 2025 annual meeting. She will succeed Dr. Janelle

Hopeful parents in Alabama are watching and waiting for Gov. Kay Ivey’s signature after Alabama’s legislature pushed through bills meant to protect in vitro fertilization (IVF). The two bills, from both the House and Senate, were introduced less than two weeks after the Alabama Supreme Court ruled frozen embryos were children, making their destruction, a