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Special Olympics Virginia’s 11th Annual City of Richmond Walk-A-Thon will be held at Virginia Union University Campus, (Henderson building) from 9:00 a.m. until 12: 30 p.m. on Saturday, October 1, 2011.  The 1, 2, and 3 mile walk/run will raise money for the Special Olympics Virginia Urban Programs, which benefits over 5000 City of Richmond adults and children with intellectual [...]

While many young people embraced sports or arts and crafts this summer, one group spent its days in math and science classes or on field trips to such places as a helicopter museum and a highway research center. For four weeks, 20 youths ages 12 to 14 participated in the Summer Transportation Institute at Lincoln University, a program designed to [...]

It’s the third summer that ECSU has hosted the ACE Academy (Camp). On Monday, the participants toured the campus by foot. Their perspective changed Thursday, when they boarded Air Viking One for a flight an an overview of the campus and Elizabeth City. Dr. J. Anthony Sharp, director of the Aviation Science program at ECSU, flies the university’s single engine, [...]

A banquet was held Monday night, August 8th, to honor 12 UDC interns and to thank the Live to Give Charitable Trust Fund, which made the internships possible.  The dinner was held at B. Smith’s at Union Station and featured remarks from Heather Burns, founder of the Live to Give Charitable Trust, UDC President Dr. Allen L. Sessoms, Professors G. [...]

Chicago’s Dr. Maya Green, MD, MPH recently won a Minority Clinical Fellowship to help minorities with HIV or AIDS who lack care in their communities. The fellowship was awarded by the HIV Medicine Association and has grants from Gilead Foundation, Genentech, and Tibotec. “The first thing I recall was excitement,” Dr. Green said about winning the fellowship. “I was shocked [...]

The DSU Sustainable Garden was one of the elements that won the University’s the 2011 Second Nature’s Climate Leadership Award at this year’s American College & University President’s Climate Commitment Leadership Summit held in Washington, D.C. on June 23. The DSU Sustainable Garden is maintained by students from the University’s Cooperative Extension and the DSU Green Ambassadors. The garden is [...]

Today, Alcorn State University’s 18th President M. Christopher Brown II is among a select group of individuals invited to attend White House Community Leaders Briefing Series, a day-long session of meetings with the White House Office of Public Engagement (OPE). He will also meet with the United States Department of Education to explore opportunities for strengthened community engagement with the [...]

State and local officials, educators and community members recently participated in a forum to address Alabama’s dropout crisis. Hosted by Alabama State University’s WVAS-FM, the forum, titled “American Graduate: A Community Conversation on the Dropout Crisis,” was held at Bellingrath Middle School on Wednesday, July 27. The forum was designed to engage the community, educators, public servants and students on [...]

  Tennessee State University is continuing its efforts to help create a greener Nashville with a new series of sustainable living community workshops presented by the College of Agricultural, Human and Natural Sciences. The workshops are designed to assist area residents in saving energy and money by going green. Funded by a United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Capacity Building [...]

MSU Continues Sustainable Living Promotion with Community Garden The Morgan State University Nutritional Sciences Program has partnered with the University of Maryland Master Gardeners and the Alpha Gamma Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc to help end hunger, obesity and health disparities in Baltimore City with the second season of a community gardening project. Inviting students, faculty, staff and [...]

Morgan students from the School of Architecture and Planning are busy finalizing the transformation of a used shipping container to a modern workspace that will be on display at ArtScape in Downtown Baltimore, Friday, July 15 through Sunday, July 17. The project, dubbed LightBox, gets its name from the creative use of natural light and airflow in the structure. MSU’s [...]

Edward Waters College, New Town Success Zone partners and City of Jacksonville officials collaboratively broke ground on Success Park Thursday to commence the construction of the soon-to-be community park.  Edward Waters College, located in the heart of the New Town Success Zone, offered its property on the corn ensure the maintenance of the park for the next 20 years, as agreed [...]

Bowie State Lends Hand in HIV/AIDS Treatment Training in Ethiopia Bowie State University’s Wellness Center director, Dr. Rita Wutoh, recently traveled to Ethiopia where she conducted training for faculty and professional students at the University of Addis Ababa, School of Pharmacy in HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention. “By collaborating with the University of Addis Ababa, we were able to positively impact [...]

Harold Burnett, class of 2007, has been selected as one of five winners of the Men of McCafe Casting Call, a national search for five community service-oriented men who are making a difference in the African American community. Mr. Burnett and the other winners made their first official Men of McCafe public appearance at the July 1-3 Essence Music Festival [...]

From June 27 through June 30, Erica Coleman and Jasmine McQueen of Kentucky State University’s volleyball team helped run a special camp at the Frankfort YMCA. The camp was organized to introduce youth to the sport of volleyball. “I would like to thank Coach May for her help in securing volunteers for our youth volleyball camp,” stated YMCA Sports Director, [...]

FRANKFORT, Ky. – On May 21, 2011, Kentucky State University’s (KSU) football team joined hands with United Way of Franklin County and 275 attendees in the first annual Touch-A-Truck event. Touch-A-Truck, presented by Holbrook Towing & Recovery and Sheriff Pat Melton, was held to benefit the United Way of Franklin County and PUSH Early Childhood Development Center. It allowed children [...]

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Area middle school students are curing the summer “brain drain” this year with a heavy dose of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fun at the ExxonMobil Bernard Harris Summer Science Camp hosted by Florida A&M University (FAMU).  The hands-on program offers students an exciting way to beat the heat as they design space suits while experiencing [...]

During a recent lesson, Melinda Annadale taught her 18 students, aged 3 to 5, about symmetry. She gave each a paper with lines that the students were supposed to cut along. Some students’ cuttings revealed simple shapes like diamonds and hearts; others had elaborate snowflakes. While every student learned the same skill, the challenge for Annadale was to accommodate the [...]