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January 1, 2021 While COVID-19 influenced just about every aspect of our year, 2020 still brought out the best in our community We often use this day to celebrate the year that was at Campbell University, but on this last day of 2020, “celebrate” is hardly the word we’re looking for.  The COVID-19 pandemic has led to the infection of more than 83 million people globally and has been responsible for nearly 2 million deaths. It has shut down entire countries and wrecked once vital economie...

The Fort Worth Childrens Partnership will also begin its spring semester in a virtual format. The museum is also offering ongoing learning opportunities through the spring for schools and families, including virtual field trips, virtual science and history nights, virtual discovery lab online groups, discovery kits, and teen video creation programs. New attractions and opportunities in January will include the "Everybody Grows" leadership network program, virtual member monthly events, and Pres...

 E-Mail Cancer cells are known for spreading genetic chaos. As cancer cells divide, DNA segments and even whole chromosomes can be duplicated, mutated, or lost altogether. This is called chromosomal instability, and scientists at Memorial Sloan Kettering have learned that it is associated with cancers aggressiveness. The more unstable chromosomes are, the more likely that bits of DNA from these chromosomes will end up where they dont belong: outside of a cells central nucleus and floating in t...

UMB News Support UMBs Increasing Efforts to Deal with the COVID-19 Pandemic During this important period, please consider supporting UMBs critical vaccine research and development, advancing its work in human virology, and donating to critical emergency funds especially designed for specific students in need.  We truly appreciate your gifts in this time of great need.  December 28, 2020 As 2020 comes to a close, the students in the University of Maryland, Baltimore’s (UMB) C...

Corporate America Ups Its Efforts To Recruit Diverse Leaders U.S. companies are retrofitting their recruitment pipelines in the wake of Black Lives Matter protests. December 24, 2020 Francis Scialabba As protestors around the world gathered to chant “Black Lives Matter following the killings of three unarmed Black Americans, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd, CEOs were forced to confront a challenge they probably didn’t cover in B-school: How should a company respond to system...

Dr. Janet Seabrook Community HealthNet Health Center CEO Dr. Janet Seabrook recently completed the Clinicians Scholars Program. With a focus on minority and/or minority-serving clinicians, the goal of the MATEC HIV Clinician Scholars Program (CSP) is to strengthen the HIV workforce in the Midwestern United States via an intensive, year-long training program focused on HIV treatment, care and prevention. “I am honored to represent Northwest Indiana as we work to raise awareness around the trea...

The goal of Gov. Nathan Deal’s Complete College Georgia initiative is to graduate an additional 250,000 college students by 2020 with relevant postsecondary degrees for an ever-changing workforce. One of the programs created to help achieve that goal is Realizing Educational Achievement Can Happen (REACH). From the Alabama border to the Atlantic Ocean inside the Peach State, there are academically promising students who strive to be the first in their family to attend college. REACH encour...

By News Director Jared Atha Southwestern Oklahoma State University with locations in Weatherford, Sayre and Yukon has received a generous philanthropic investment from Oklahoma City-based Delaware Resources Group and the Busey Family. SWOSU officials say DRG and the Buseys are longtime SWOSU benefactors. This major gift of $65,000 will provide much-needed support for both the General Thomas P. Stafford Scholars Program and the Busey Brothers Scholarship Program. DRG is a Native American-owned l...

I’m Goldie Blumenstyk, a senior writer at The Chronicle covering innovation in and around academe. Here’s what I’m thinking about this week. The newsletter topics that most clicked with you in 2020. It’s been a weird year to be covering innovation in higher education. Yet looking back on the topics that seemed to have most engaged you over these eventful and distressing past 12 months, I’m struck that some themes that resonated most in 2020 — enrollment trends and new approaches t...

Study uncovers two phases of infection in patients with severe COVID-19 pneumonia BOSTON - What does SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, do once it enters a persons airways, and how does infection in lung cells affect patients immune responses? New research led by investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and published in Nature Communications provides insights that could help improve treatment strategies for infected patients. To analyze SARS-CoV-2 at the tissue level, the ...