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N.C. A&T Receives $4.8M NIH Grant to Study Alzheimer's Disease

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Before then, she held a faculty appointment as a research associate in the Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology in the School of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. A&T’s College of Science and Technology, successfully secured the grant. Nearly seven million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s disease.

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2022 INSIGHT Into Diversity Health Professions HEED Award Winners

Insight Into Diversity

In addition, Dean Amy Fairchild added an associate dean for faculty and inclusive excellence to her leadership team who is charged with articulating and advancing a vision for inclusive excellence and providing leadership to enhance excellence in teaching, scholarship, and service.

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2022 INSIGHT Into Diversity HEED Award Recipients

Insight Into Diversity

IUPUI continued the White Racial Literacy Project with the Chancellor’s Leadership Reading Program, which is inclusive of all vice chancellors and deans, in a yearlong reading of “Presumed Incompetent: Race, Class, Power and Resistance of Women in Academia” as well as an auditorium-packed lecture featuring Ibram X.

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Honoring the Promise of Higher Ed

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

Prior to her work in California, she held faculty appointments at Miami University of Ohio and Wayne State University. Vollendorf previously served as interim provost and chief academic officer at the University of Northern Colorado. She also directed the Hispanic Institute at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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How to Win Faculty and Influence Staff (and Athletics)

Higher Ed Marketing Lab

Joining us in the conversation is Brad Pochard, AVP for Enrollment and Dean of Admissions at Furman University. In this episode, we’ll be discussing how senior leaders can build strong collaborative relationships with faculty, coaches, and staff. I serve as ADP for enrollment and Dean of admissions at Furman University.

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Back to Campus Visit (But Not Like Before) [Webinar]

Echo Delta

And in the past several amazing Deans David [inaudible 00:11:22], you mentioned Lee Ann Backlund who have really moved us forward over the past 15 years. We did online faculty appointments, really anything a student asked for we were able to make happen for them virtually. Mae Watters: We did.

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UT Southwestern settles long-running discrimination case

Inside Higher Ed

That year, her lawsuit says, David Russell, who was then UT Southwestern’s new vice provost and dean of basic research, met with Vitetta for the first time to say he was planning on shutting down her manufacturing practice lab—where she made vaccines for clinical trials—in order to give this space to a younger male professor.