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A 40th Anniversary Love Story: About My Favorite Magazine

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I didn’t have enough money at that time to become a subscriber, so I would either sit and read the magazine wherever I found it, or I would take it, read it from cover-to-cover, and then return it to its rightful owner. I grew up reading more magazines than newspapers. It had a profound impact on my research trajectory.

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Howard University Taps Antiracist Scholar Ibram X. Kendi to Head New Advanced Studies Institute

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Kendi significant expansion of the historically Black university's research capabilities. The institute will focus on interdisciplinary research addressing global African diaspora issues, including studies on race, technology, climate change, and systemic disparities. Board of Education decision.

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Diverse: Issues In Higher Education Magazine Profiles Top “40 and Under” Scholars

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Contact : Maya Matthews Minter Phone : 703.385.2411 Email : Maya@DiverseEducation.com Diverse: Issues In Higher Education Magazine Profiles Top “40 and Under” Scholars FAIRFAX, VA — Diverse: Issues In Higher Education will kick off 2023 with its annual Emerging Scholars edition.

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Teacher-Researcher Crafts More Efficient Transportation Systems

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Dipayan Banerjee, a fifth-year doctoral student at Georgia Institute of Technology with a passion for teaching, is pursuing research that can have a societal impact regarding logistics and supply chain management as well as equity and fairness in the context of transportation. His goal after completing his Ph.D.

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Researcher-Mentor Challenges Students to Pursue Purpose

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“I knew that I wanted an undergraduate research lab,” Stoddard said. I knew I wanted to be in a space where both teaching was valued but also research was valued.” A biochemist by training, Stoddard said she does research under the umbrella of molecular interactions and recognition. “I’m

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Research in Action: Dr. Jerlando F. L. Jackson

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Jackson’s journey to Michigan State began — in earnest — some two decades earlier, when the young Jackson embarked on an ambitious research agenda of studying education deans as a doctoral student at Iowa State University. I just fell completely in love with focusing on the research, working with students, teaching classes.

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Researcher Draws on Self-Discipline in Pursuit to Combat Alzheimer’s Disease

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Lidadi Agbomi Lidadi Agbomi is beginning her doctoral program in bioengineering at Clemson University in August, but already has a CV filled with published research and presentations. Agbomi has worked closely with mentors there to investigate and research self-organizing neural units to model ischemic stroke and other neuropathology.

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