Sentences with phrase «african studies program»

Come network with alumni from the African - American and African Studies program!

The next book, and graduate school in the African Studies program at Yale.

Department of Teacher Education and African American and African Studies Program, Michigan State University

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For 18 years between 1993 and 2011, Debby Crowder and Dr. Julius Nyang «oro developed the curriculum inside the university's African and Afro - American Studies program.

Her work has been funded by several NIH agencies and her current study, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nurse Faculty Scholars Program, examines the interaction between genome - wide association and social environmental factors related to blood pressure among African American hypertensive parents and early risks for high blood pressure among their untreated children.

In fact, according to a study in Breastfeeding Medicine, mothers with lower rates of breastfeeding «tend to be young, low - income, African American, unmarried, less educated, participants in the Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), overweight or obese before pregnancy, and more likely to report their pregnancy was unintended.»

Dr. Rositch adds, «It will be important to clarify in future studies whether the continued increase in cervical cancer rates with age and the higher rates in African - American women represent a failure in our screening programs or a failure of the women to be screened so that appropriate interventions can be applied.»

Hrabowski studied various minority programs in creating his curriculum, including similar programs at historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and Uri Treisman's methods, which have improved calculus scores for African Americans at UC - Berkeley.

Previous studies had shown that African - American students are underrepresented in gifted programs, but the studies were based on organizational - level data and could not determine what caused the underrepresentation.

But the current study suggests African - American students can also be left behind in the referral process, when teachers recommend students to be evaluated for gifted programs.

He received a full scholarship to study at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, through Carl Rowan's Project Excellence, a program founded by Rowan, a syndicated columnist who died in 2000, to aid African - American high - school seniors from the Washington, D.C., area who plan to attend college.

The minority Stay in School program allows us to establish our self - identity, especially by including African - American studies in the curriculum.

The study found that the outreach program reduced mobility of African - American students by 29 percent.

Prompted by health officials with a dim sense of genetics, the testing of African Americans for sickle - cell disease was a social program that, like the Tuskegee study, backfired on the group it was meant to benefit.

But, as a new National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine study found, «for African - American scientists,... the program may as well not exist,» Mervis continued.

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«Not only are African American women at twice the risk, but in this study we found they also took twice as long to recover, they were twice as likely to worsen before getting better after diagnosis, and they were twice as likely to fail to recover altogether, meaning their heart failure persisted for months following delivery,» said senior author Zoltan Arany, MD, PhD, an associate professor of Cardiovascular Medicine and director of the Cardiovascular Metabolism Program.

«Previous studies have shown reduced trauma with the TM program in other populations, including veterans and African refugees.»

Matthew Mannix is a classically trained dancer and graduate from The Ailey School, where he studied Ballet, Horton, Graham - based modern, Jazz, and African, and graduated from the Professional Division Certificate Program.

This series is sponsored by the Black Film Center / Archive, The Media School, the Cinema and Media Studies program, and the departments of African Studies, French and Italian, and Comparative Literature.

A recent study by the South African Institute of Race Relations shows that state programs are already having a marked effect on improving the basic living conditions of the poorest segments of the population.

The individual studies of the privately funded K — 12 scholarship programs in the District of Columbia and Dayton reported overall achievement gains only for the large subgroup of African American students in the program.

With the help of a J - Term grant from the Harvard University Center for African Studies, Nalani investigated ways in which AYLE could better incorporate teachers and school leaders into its programs.

Using a similar definition of scholarship use (receipt of any scholarship assistance), the evaluators of the federally funded Washington, D.C., voucher program estimated a positive impact of 21 percent on the high - school graduation rates of study participants, 88 percent of whom were African Americans.

Given the results of these three studies, one which was overseen by the U.S. Department of Education and two which were recognized with the Department's highest award for rigor, we might expect President Obama to receive a swift response regarding his call for the federal government to search for programs that boost educational outcomes for African American men.

These higher rates of educational attainment due to the Milwaukee voucher program represent improvements of 15 — 20 percent over the rates obtained by the comparison group of public - school students — nearly as large as those for the African American students in the New York City study.

One experimental study in 2014 by Anne Gregory and colleagues found that teachers in the MTP program suspended students less often than teachers in the control group, and when suspensions did occur, MTP teachers had equal suspension rates for African American and white students.

Important studies show, for example, that children who encounter African - American teachers are more likely to be recognized as bright enough for gifted and talented programs, more likely to be viewed as capable of success and more likely to graduate from high school and aim for college.

Given that no study has demonstrated that targeted urban voucher programs hurt students, and several studies have shown that they are especially beneficial to low - income African Americans, I am perfectly comfortable making the call.

More recently, Esteban extended his research with two new grants: one supporting a longitudinal study of symptoms of depression among Caucasian, African - American and Latino children; and the other supporting an evaluation of a randomized control trial of the Family Coping Skills Program in a population of low - income Latina mothers.

Howard Smith, a professor of bicultural - bilingual studies at the University of Texas at San Antonio, explained: «One of the arguments levied against African - American children, especially in the poor areas where the dual - language programs are springing up, is that, «Well, these kids don't speak standard English anyway, and we need to work on their standard English.

The current study tests whether a professional development program with these three characteristics helped change teachers» use of exclusionary discipline practices — especially with their African American students.

This is the first study to show that programs like MTP - S that focus on teacher - student interactions in a sustained manner using a rigorous approach can actually reduce the disproportionate use of exclusionary discipline with African American students.

The effect of the Nurse - Family Partnership on African - American boys specifically has not been isolated, but in one study in Memphis — where the participants were overwhelmingly African - American (though not all boys)-- the children whose parents participated in the program performed significantly better during their first years at school than did those in the control group.

This study sought to answer the question, how effectively does Montessori instruction promote achievement for African American third grade students in reading and math, compared to similar traditional schools and other public school choice programs?

Through the Chicago Longitudinal Study (CLS), Reynolds and colleagues have studied the educational and social development of a same - age cohort of low - income, minority children (93 percent African American) who participated in this program.

She Graduated from UC - Berkeley with a Bachelor's degree in Afro - American Studies, attended the African Studies graduate program at Howard University, and is presently enrolled in the School Counseling program at Trinity Washington University.

For example, African American children born in poverty who participated in early childhood education programs had higher graduation rates, higher adult earnings, and fewer arrests than their peers.102 A similar study found that students who participated in early intervention programs maintained higher high school GPAs, were two times more likely to have attended a four - year college, and were more likely to hold a job than their peers.103 Furthermore, research finds that participation in state - funded preschool programs improves children's language, literacy, and mathematical skills.104

The Charles H. Houston Center for the Study of the Black Experience in Education conducts empirical research, disseminates scholarly information, examines research - based best practices, addresses critical educational issues, and strives to produce research that makes a difference which informs the development of practices, policies, programs, and scholarship impacting educational and workforce outcomes among African Americans.

Vivid images from the exhibition permeate the entire volume giving visual heft to essays by Jones; Carbone; Connie H. Choi, research associate in the Arts of the Americas and Europe at the Brooklyn Museum; and Cynthia A. Young, director of the African and African Diaspora Studies Program and associate professor of English at Boston College.

Jones completed a private residency program in Northern California in summer of 2016, during which he produced new work for the exhibition from books deaccessioned by the Department of African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

Dr. Huey Copeland, Northwestern University Huey Copeland is associate dean for Academic Affairs in the Graduate School and associate professor of Art History with affiliations in the Gender and Sexuality Studies Program and the Department of African American Studies at Northwestern University.

Previously, Roula was the Program Manager responsible for MoAD in the Middle, a pilot program offered by the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) designed to deliver content - rich curriculum detailing the African diaspora through social studies, geography, history, and visual arts lessonProgram Manager responsible for MoAD in the Middle, a pilot program offered by the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) designed to deliver content - rich curriculum detailing the African diaspora through social studies, geography, history, and visual arts lessonprogram offered by the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) designed to deliver content - rich curriculum detailing the African diaspora through social studies, geography, history, and visual arts lesson plans.

An educator, art historian, and artist, she collaborated to develop the Department of Afro - American Studies (B.A., M.A., Ph.D. minor, and certificate programs), as well as to expand curricula in Gender & Women's Studies and African Studies, and to institute Visual Culture as a discipline at the University.

Hamilton has been the recipient of several residencies, fellowships and awards including the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, MacDowell Colony, MFAH Dora Maar program in Menerbes France, Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, Artadia Award, Art Matters Grant, Artist in Residence at Duke University's African and African American Studies and Bemis Center for Contemporary Art and the City of Chicago's IAP Award.

Slought is pleased to announce Penser l'Afrique, an exhibition and transdisciplinary program of study about African intellectual histories, on display January 18 - February 14, 2018nuary 18 — February 14, 2018.

She teaches at Tufts University where she is currently co-director of the Tufts / African American Freedom Trail Project, and where she directs the American Studies Program through the University's Consortium of Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora.

Rebecca Peabody, who is head of research programs and projects at the Getty Research Institute, and studies representations of race, gender and ethnicity in 20th century art says that white artists who take on African American identities are doing so under the shadow of some problematic historical antecedents.

Lights on Africa: A Program of African Film was organized by Manon Slome of the Guggenheim Museum in consultation with Mahen Bonetti of African Film Festival Inc. and with the support of Manthia Diawara, Chairman of the Department of African Studies, New York University.

Former director of Princeton's African American Studies program, Painter is the author of the critically acclaimed book The History of White People.