New Initiative Guarantees Admission to WSSU Masters, Doctoral Therapy Programs

A new “assurance agreement” – the first of its kind offered at a historically black university – guarantees admission into the university’s DPT program for WSSU exercise physiology students who maintain at least a 3.4 GPA and meet the other normal admissions requirements. 

Mississippi Valley State Launches Joint Robotics Competition with Virginia Tech

Mississippi Valley State University’s Department of Engineering Technology has entered into collaboration with Virginia Tech and the Sunflower County Consolidated School District (SCCSD) in a partially funded National Science Foundation (1511792) robotics collaborative titled “Actualizing STEM Potential in the Mississippi Delta.” 

While Some Officials Protest UT Expansion Into Houston, Texas Southern President Lends Support

Texas Southern University President John Rudley says he is “not on the bandwagon” of Houston higher education officials who oppose a potential downtown expansion by the University of Texas System.

Alabama A&M Alumna, Tuskegee Professor Hadiyah-Nicole Green: The Million-Dollar Physicist

By many measures, Green has been extremely busy. One of fewer than 100 black female physicists in the country, she recently won a $1.1 million grant to further develop her patent-pending technology for using laser-activated nanoparticles to treat cancer.

Celebration Bowl Trolls HBCU-Snubbing Media on Twitter

With more than two million households tuned into the inaugural Celebration Bowl between North Carolina A&T and Alcorn State last month, the newly-established black college football championship game took to Twitter to take a few journalists to task about the value of the game, and its participating teams.