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Tallahassee Community College will unveil its graduation celebration video at 6 p.m. April 30. A website — www.tcc.fl.edu/2021celebration — will include a showcase of messages to graduates and a commencement program flipbook, among other things. Afterward, a “celebration” package will be mailed to each summer and fall 2020 and spring 2021 graduate. TCC honoring three graduates Tuesday during special awards ceremony Tallahassee Community College is honoring three graduates with aw...

Date Time Membranes unlock potential to vastly increase cell-free vaccine production By cracking open a cellular membrane, Northwestern University synthetic biologists have discovered a new way to increase production yields of protein-based vaccines by five-fold, significantly broadening access to potentially lifesaving medicines. In February, the researchers introduced a new biomanufacturing platform that can quickly make shelf-stable vaccines at the point of care, ensuring they will not go to...

Six Floyd County students have been selected for an enhanced summer learning experience that will help them pay for their college education. On April 16, the Floyd County Schools System and Superintendent Danny Adkins announced that six of the districts students have been selected for the Kentucky Governor’s Scholar Program (GSP). According to Adkins, GSP is an enhanced summer learning experience for students who will be seniors in the fall. An opportunity that comes at no cost to the stud...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo expands SNAP food initiative Food Pantry, Pipe Dream Archives In addition to the new Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) eligibility, students facing food insecurity can turn to the Binghamton University Food Pantry for healthy meals. Part of pre-pandemic plan to combat student hunger, aims to combat food insecurity due to COVID-19 April 19, 2021 On Oct. 16, New York State Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced the that Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program ...

Worcester Polytechnic Institute Moves from Test Optional to Test Blind Admissions Policy; Taking Another Major Step in Its Mission to Expand Student Access Share Article More than 13 years after becoming the first STEM university to adopt a test-optional policy, WPI faculty vote to pilot a new policy that eliminates SAT and ACT scores entirely from its admissions process. “I’m proud that WPI is one of the very first STEM universities to fully eliminate the test score barrier." -President La...

LAS VEGAS  – Desert Radiology, a premier diagnostic imaging practice that has served Southern Nevada for more than 50 years, welcomes two veteran physicians and one physician’s assistant to its team, Osman M. Tahir, DO,

FAMU president Larry Robinsons contract extended through end of this year Tallahassee Democrat 1/28/2021 Byron Dobson, Tallahassee Democrat Replay Video UP NEXT The State University Systems Board of Governors moved swiftly Wednesday in approving the reappointment of Larry Robinson as president of Florida A&M University. In doing so, the board approved a one-year-extension of Robinson’s contract through Dec. 30, 2021. It follows a vote of FAMU’s Board of Trustees in earl...

Florida State University News Year in Review: FSU’s strength shines throughout challenges of 2020  December 17, 2020 | 8:56 am | SHARE: Florida State University rises above the challenges of 2020 to achieve new heights. (FSU Photography Services) Florida State University showcased its strength and resilience during a global pandemic in 2020 while continuing to achieve new heights in student success and research initiatives.   FSU ranked among the nation’s Top 20 universities fo...

Albert Titus UB researcher Albert H. Titus, professor and chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, has been elected a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Fellowship, according to the NAI, is the highest professional distinction accorded by the organization to academic inventors who have demonstrated “a highly prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development and th...

So we have a holistic understanding of whats impacting the students and we have the program set up to able to help these students. it is not just about us doing it for them. it is about empowering the students and to manage their own success and so thats really what we feel has been the key to having our scholars graduate and outpace national average the way we have. >> yeah. by a lot. something is working. thank you very much for sharing it with us. oscar lopez from the dell scholar program. ...