Diverse perspectives on science and medicine
We’ve had a rather emotional few days here in the Research Triangle of North Carolina with issues of relevance to the entire country and perhaps of interest to our international readers. On Saturday morning, my
Wanna put your mad Photoshop skillz to a good non-profit cause? Rebecca Skloot, author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, (and I) need your help for scientist give-away items to support The Henrietta Lacks
As a follow-up to my post overnight about a recently resurrected discussion on the role of HBCUs in modern higher education, I wanted to repost what is actually a repost of my longer essay and
There are few questions as beaten to death as to whether historically Black colleges and universities (HBCU) are still needed in this so-called post-racial America. My post is stimulated by this post where my own
Last week, I wrote a bit about the Martin Luther King, Jr., Memorial session I moderated at ScienceOnline2011 with Danielle N. Lee and Alberto Roca. I know that Alberto is bogged down with grant applications
With some service work for our nation’s medical research agency behind me – including my car breaking down and a narrow escape from the East Coast snowstorm – I finally have a few moments to
This crosspost from the CENtral Science home of Terra Sigillata appeared on 21 November 2010. Organometallics chemist and NSF CAREER awardee, Dr. Quinetta D. Shelby, has been denied tenure in the Department of Chemistry at
This past summer marked the 50th anniversary of the desegregation of public schools in Durham, North Carolina. Charmaine McKissick-Melton wrote a retrospective here for the Pauli Murray Project of the Duke Human Rights Center and
I received wonderful news yesterday that my North Carolina State University history colleague, Dr. Blair Kelley, is the recipient of the 2010 Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book Award from the Association of Black Women Historians