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Cal State Fullerton Gets $1.4M for Career Pathways Projects

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The state awarded $18 million each to six regional collaboratives consisting of at least one K-12 school district, University of California campus, California State University campus, and community college district. Zarate believes that this will particularly benefit students who are the first in their families to attend college.

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Columbia’s Medical School Receives $400 Million

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Columbia University’s Irving Medical Center has received a $400 million donation from Roy Vagelos, a former pharmaceutical CEO, and his wife, Diana Vagelos, the university announced Thursday.

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Laying the Foundation for Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

For example, at a pharmaceutical company, they’ll learn about chemistry, and at a telecommunications company, they’ll hear about technology. It’s six to eight sessions spread out over the academic year in which topics like navigating college and getting an internship are explored.

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Biotech boot camp at Villanova exposes students to career paths

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The half-day event promoted business and career advice and networking opportunities for science, technology, engineering and math students interested in pharmaceuticals and biotech, boosting students’ interest and confidence in postgraduate opportunities. Is this diversity newsletter?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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Identifying Disparities to Improve Vaccine Rates: Academic Minute

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Today on the Academic Minute, part of University of California, Irvine, Week: Keri Hurley-Kim, associate clinical professor in the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, explains why knowing who gets vaccinated more often can tell us whom to target in future vaccine efforts.

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Pain as a Hallmark of Human Experience

Confessions of a Community College Dean

’s Why We Hurt , uncovers pain’s evolutionary, physiological, and psychological functions and discusses the efficacy of various non-pharmaceutical pain treatments for the pain caused by neuralgia, rheumatoid arthritis, angina, and cancer. Neurosurgeon Frank T. Vertosick Jr.’s

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Stopping the Cancer Crosstalk: Academic Minute

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Today on the Academic Minute: Kideok Jin, associate professor in the department of pharmaceutical sciences at the Albany College of Pharmacy, discusses one breast cancer treatment that could yield big benefits.