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Articles in Jan 10, 2008 issue of Diverse Issues in Higher Education

• Remembering Martin Luther King Jr
• Mathematics: connecting the dots
  by Add Seymour, Jr.
• Clark College's corporate education unit has been awarded a $31,000 Job Skills Program grant to provide training for Southwest Washington Medical Center
• The use of outside voices in increasing faculty diversity
  by David J. Siegel
• Top 10 institutions graduating the most minority doctorates 2006
• Sallie Mae fund, BET collaborate to promote college awareness
• An obvious omission
  by Connie Chen
• Electrical engineering: a teacher's tenacity
  by Dana Forde
• Western Illinois University
• The University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research and Wayne State University's Institute of Gerontology have received a $3.3 million award
• A historic first
  by Jose Tijerina
• Law: defining his own agenda
  by Lydia Lum
• Savannah State University
• Diverse calendar
• Political science: researching the electorate
  by Jamal Watson
• Getting to know Dr. Toya Barnes-Teamer
  by Lydia Lum
• New institute seeks to ask 'the race question'
  by Michelle J. Nealy
• Number of Doctoral Recipients by Fields and Race/Ethnicity: 1996 and 2006
• The Thurgood Marshall College fund has received a donation of $400,000 from Virgis and Angela Colbert
• Twenty-year analysis of total earned doctorates by race/ethnicity, 1986, 1996 and 2006
• Helping foster care youth access college: education has not been on the radar for child agencies until recently, say child advocates
  by Molly Nance
• Informing on New Orleans
  by Rochelle Daniel
• Education psychology: publishing, rather than perishing
  by Ibram Rogers
• U.S. Department of Education
• The University of Maryland school of medicine has been awarded $23.7 million by the National Institutes of Health to conduct clinical trials of vaccines and therapies for infectious diseases
• Columbia University Teachers College
• History: exploring the intersections of diverse disciplines
  by Patricia Valdata
• Step up, not down in fight over Africana studies
  by Rhonda Simmons
• Genetics: cooking up achievement
  by Mark Anthony Rolo
• The Pennsylvania State University
• Winston-Salem State University has received $5.4 million from North Carolina Baptist Hospitals Inc. to continue its accelerated nursing education program and recruit more nursing students
• Maine infants receive $500 college nest egg
• Physics: a fascination for physics
  by Michelle J. Nealy
• The Kentucky adult learner initiative has been awarded S500,000 from the Lumina Foundation for Education for a statewide effort to increase the number of working-age adults with college degrees
• Non-U.S. citizens earning doctorates at U.S. colleges and universities by country of origin, 2006
• Catching up with the class of 2002: the first group of "Emerging Scholars" gives us an update on life since their magazine debut in January 2002 in what was then Black Issues In Higher Education
• The year ahead on Capitol Hill: higher education advocates hope Congress will address Pell Grant increases, textbook costs and other priorities before the fall presidential campaign
  by Charles Dervarics
• News worth spreading
  by Offie Wortham
• Engineering education: demystifying engineering
  by David Pluviose
• Alabama A&M University
• Utah State University has received a donation of $26 million, the largest in its history, from Jon M. and Karen H. Huntsman
• Emerging scholars: the class of 2008
• Ph.D. profiles—a closer look
• Prairie view A&M University has been awarded a $1 MILLION, three-year education research grant from the National Science Foundation to identify and evaluate the factors that contribute to the success of academically gifted Black students in science,
• NAACP Legal Defense Fund
• Study suggests colleges do more to reach under-represented students
• Our salute to scholars
  by Hilary Hurd Anyaso
• African-American studies and religion: reaching out to the post-civil rights generation
• North Carolina A&T State University
• The University of Houston has been awarded a five-year, $2.3 million grant by the National Institute on Drug Abuse , which is part of the National Institutes for Health
• Capitol College
• Poll: racial groups view each other with mistrust
  by Michelle J. Nealy