Sentences with phrase «ethnic studies centers»

This symposium celebrates the publication of Asian American Art: A History, 1850 — 1970 and is one of the events commemorating the 40th Anniversary of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center and other ethnic studies centers at UCLA.

Not exact matches

«We saw that prevalence rates for depression and anxiety diagnoses were lower among racial and ethnic minorities compared to non-Hispanic whites,» said Owen - Smith, who worked at the Kaiser Permanente Georgia Center for Clinical and Outcomes Research when the study was conducted.

«This continuing gap is disappointing because improving racial and ethnic disparities in access was a key objective of the reform,» said Amresh Hanchate, PhD, of the section of General Internal Medicine at Boston Medical Center, an assistant professor at the Boston University School of Medicine, and a study co-author.

Obesity raises the prevalence of high blood pressure among adolescents but the increase is particularly pronounced among Hispanics compared to white, African - American or Asian ethnic groups, according to a study by researchers at McGovern Medical School at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth).

However, it did not appear to preferentially benefit ethnic and racial minorities who are typically the most vulnerable of America's poorest population,» explains the study's lead investigator, Waddah B. Al - Refaie, MD, surgeonin - chief at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center and chief of surgical oncology at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital.

Michele Moses is Professor of Educational Foundations, Policy and Practice, faculty fellow of the Center for Values and Social Policy and the National Center for Education Policy, and affiliate faculty of Ethnic Studies and of Women's and Gender Studies.

When new teachers were asked in a study published by the National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality how to improve teaching, they cited reducing class size and increasing training to help them deal with the ethnic diversity in schools and classrooms as their top two priorities.

Sara served as Visiting Faculty in the Ethnic Studies Department of Brown University, and entered a graduate program at Brown's Center for Environmental Studies in 2009.

He has also studied international legal and cultural issues at the University of Amsterdam and the International Center for Ethnic Studies in Sri Lanka.

A Pew Research Center study found that, though interracial marriage is increasing, as of 2008, only 8 percent of U.S. marriages were between members of different racial or ethnic groups; interfaith marriages are also on the rise, but 61 percent of us choose spouses of the same religion.

In Study 1 (2001 — 2006), [Gross, et al. (2009)-RSB- the day care centers were matched on size, racial / ethnic composition, percent single parent households, and median income before randomizing them to waitlist control or intervention conditions.

Alliance for Race Equity Center for the Study of Social Policy Provides tools and technical assistance to help agencies develop and implement effective strategies to address and reduce racial and ethnic disproportionality in the child welfare system.