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Articles in Jan 27, 2005 issue of Black Issues in Higher Education

• Online assessment test for adult education released
  by Ronald Roach
• Princeton, Smith College partner to increase women in engineering: five out of six engineering students and nine out of 10 engineering professors are male
• North Carolina A&T State University
• Roger Williams helps open university in Vietnam
• Weighing in on African American obesity: researchers look for clues in eliminating obesity-related disparities, particularly among black women
  by B. Denise Hawkins
• Getting HBCUs in the disaster-response loop
  by Ladd G. Colston
• Second annual BIHE National conference: Benchmarks & Barriers: for people of color in higher education
• Senators offer support for nomination of new education secretary: Margaret Spellings cites more year-round Pell Grants, expansion of distance-learning options, as higher education policy themes
  by Charles Dervarics
• Former La Raza leader joins ASU to develop Hispanic-based community development institute
• At the same time, the court struck down the university's undergraduate policy that automatically gave minorities a 20-point bonus in a point-based screening system for applicants
• Maryland to lead major U.S. Homeland Security behavioral research center
• Dillard University
• Events
• I poll
• Magazines on web tools, content
  by Reid Goldsborough
• Kent State researcher to look for clues in tsunami sand
• Medical University of South Carolina
• Mazie S. Woodruff Center
• Oprah Winfrey Foundation funds online access to civil rights history programming
  by Ronald Roach
• 2000 Ad
• NCAA passes landmark academic reform plan
• Kentucky State University
• North Carolina Central University
• Cultural attitudes and body dissatisfaction: Morgan State researchers find that perceptions of body image among young African Americans may be life threatening
  by B. Denise Hawkins
• Film honoring Gullah heritage selected for national registry
• A healthier, happier New Year
  by Hilary Hurd Anyaso
• Penn State engineers present expanded view of broadband by power lines
  by Ronald Roach
• Wisconsin Historical Society has papers of slain civil rights worker
• Sharing some of the blame
  by O. Cleveland Hill
• Kalamazoo College
• Campbellsville University
• Supercomputer developed at Bowie State University
  by Ronald Roach
• Taking an interdisciplinary approach: ten African-American scholars combine expertise to get at the root of obesity
  by B. Denise Hawkins
• Tom Joyner Foundation partners with NEA to help minority teachers gain certification
• Fallout continues over payment to conservative commentator to promote no child left behind law: Black Journalists Association calls on White House to rebuke Education Department
• Hastings College Foundation
• Elizabeth City State University
• Syracuse University
• Milk matters: African Americans are not getting enough calcium, one of two emerging health issues to be concerned about, researcher says
  by B. Denise Hawkins
• Effort to ban race, gender considerations advances in Michigan