Sentences with phrase «black studies department»

Students and supporters of the Black Studies Department at SUNY New Paltz gathered in front of the Administration Building on campus yesterday to advocate for the rejuvenation of the department.

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Glaude is the chair of the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University and the author of Democracy in Black.

A state Department of Health study released last year showed that there were 55,546 members of the black community statewide living with HIV or AIDS as of December 2012.

«The discovery of the novel progenitor represents a fundamental advance in this field and potentially to the liver regeneration field using cell therapy,» said the study's senior author, Valerie Gouon - Evans, PharmD, PhD, Assistant Professor, in the Department of Developmental and Regenerative Biology, Black Family Stem Cell Institute, at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

Reitzel and her colleague Elaine Savoy, a Ph.D. candidate in the department of psychology at the University of Houston, studied the relationship between financial strain and self - rated health among 1,341 Black adults from a large Methodist church in Houston.

«Because the study was cross-sectional, we can not say that one caused the other, but we know that financial strain is associated with poorer self - rated health among black adults,» said the study's lead author Lorraine R. Reitzel, Ph.D., associate professor of health in the department of educational psychology at the University of Houston.

«Although we do not know the reasons for the racial and ethnic differences we saw, one explanation could be that the black and Hispanic patients had surgery when they are much heavier and sicker than the non-Hispanic white patients,» said study lead author, Karen J. Coleman, PhD, of the Kaiser Permanente Department of Research & Evaluation in Pasadena, Calif. «Our study highlights that surgery may be an important intervention tool for people earlier in their weight gain trajectory.

Ford, an associate professor in the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology and an investigator at the Neuroscience Institute at the Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) in Atlanta, Georgia, says that when he came to the historically black MSM four years ago he chose stroke research as the area he wanted to concentrate on for two reasons: The medical school recognized the racial and regional disparities of the disease and placed stroke high on its list of illnesses to study, and the field combines the several prongs of his varied academic training and interests.

«The observations show the presence of very bright X-ray sources that are likely accreting black holes,» says Philip Kaaret, professor in the UI Department of Physics and Astronomy and corresponding author on the study.

«Many of these deaths could be prevented if high - impact and affordable solutions reached the populations that needed them most,» says study leader Robert Black, PhD, a professor in the Department of International Health at the Bloomberg School.

A 2010 study found New Yorkers consume more than 3,200 mg of sodium each day on average, with higher intake among blacks and Hispanics, the health department said.

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.

The series is sponsored by the Black Film Center / Archive, the Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies, the Department of Gender Studies, and the IU Cinema.

Minorities fared worse than average in the U.S. Department of Education study: Only about half of black and Hispanic students would meet the stricter guidelines.

Jens Ludwig («The Great Unknown,» Check the Facts, Summer 2003) raises a number of important questions about the U.S. Department of Education's study of the black - white test - score gap.

A new study conducted by economists from SPA and Johns Hopkins University's Department of Economics found sweeping bias in teachers» expectations of black students.

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Black children represent 18 percent of preschool enrollment but make up 48 percent of preschool children receiving more than one out - of - school suspension, according to the study released by the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights in March.

At the Crossroads: Black Males + Race, Place, & Identity with Instructor Derrick Lanois, VCU Department of African American Studies Monday, January 20, 6 p.m. Elegba Folklore Society's Cultural Center

Not long after the Third Reich shut down the Bauhaus, the avant - garde art school where Josef and Anni had both studied and taught, Josef was fortuitously invited to lead the art department at the newly founded Black Mountain College, the North Carolina art school that would soon become a hotbed of modernist experimentation.

Additional essayists include Franklin Sirmans, Department Head and Curator of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, who explores the early performances of Lorraine O'Grady; Tavia Nyong» o, Associate Professor of Performance Studies at New York University, who discusses black performance art from the perspective of sex and gender; and Naomi Beckwith, Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, who examines the relationship between live performance and its documentation.

The event is organized by Grey Art Gallery, New York University and NYU's Department of Museum Studies, in conjunction with Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art, on view at Grey Art Gallery through December 7, 2013.

A unique academic program organized by the Barnard Center for Research on Women and the Department of Africana Studies at Barnard College, The Harlem Semester encourages students to learn about Harlem's history through immersion in the neighborhood under the mentorship of key cultural organizations, including the National Black Theatre, Apollo Theater, Harlem Stage Gatehouse, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, National Jazz Museum in Harlem, and Romare Bearden Foundation.

The 3 - year - study, titled «Black Carbon and Regional Climate of California,» was conducted by UC San Diego, UC Berkeley, and the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

ACHMI is an applied research project and a collaboration of the Auburn University Department of Human Development and Family Studies, the Alabama Children's Trust Fund, the Alabama Cooperative Extension System, the Montgomery chapter of the 100 Black Men, a service organization focused on strengthening youth and families, and a network of community - based agencies across the state, such as Family Guidance Center of Alabama.

It was conceived and developed by Black Studies pioneer Dr. Maulana Ron Karenga, a professor and chair of the Department of Black Studies at California State University, Long Beach.