Delaware State University joins Atlas Air’s Pathway Program
By Sheyla Fairley
Delaware State University (DSU), Dover, DE, has recently joined Atlas Air’s, a major American cargo airline, Pathway Program for pilots.
As stated in a release, the program “will recruit, hire and train qualified graduates of DSU to fill high-demand careers for the next generation of pilots.”
“Deepening our relationships with HBCUs is an important component of our recruiting and talent strategy, enabling us to raise awareness of Atlas Air as an employer of choice for an increasingly diverse population of students for our highly competitive pilot careers,” said Patricia Goodwin-Peters, Senior Vice President of Human Resources at Atlas Air Worldwide.
Meharry Medical College to launch school of global health later this year
By Sheyla Fairley
Meharry Medical College’s, Nashville, TN, new School of Global Health will start enrolling its first 100 students in the fall of 2024.
According to an article, the university is in the process of “finalizing the curriculum, pending accreditation approval and hiring faculty.” In addition, the school is set to offer degree programs in “global health equity, health equity, health law policy and management, complex health systems leadership, public health and epidemiology.”
“Meharry’s future School of Global Health is primed to be a center for health equity innovation at a historically black institution that has been a leader in responding to health inequities for over a century and a half,” said Donna Christensen, the school’s founding advisory board member and former representative for the U.S. Virgin Islands.
For more information, read the full article here.
Fayetteville State University students from the Biological and Forensic Sciences department published article in international scientific journal on plant science
By Sheyla Fairley
According to an article, five Fayetteville State University, Fayetteville, NC, undergraduate students Shirley Jacquet, Layla Rashad, Sonia Viera, Francisco Reta, and Juan Reta with their “mentors and collaborators coauthored” and published, Evaluating the Response of Glycine soja Accessions to Fungal Pathogen Macrophomina phaseolina during Seedling Growth, in “the international peer-review journal of Plants.”
“Participating in research at an institution like FSU can indeed contribute positively to an individual’s skill and career development,” stated Danielle Graham, Ph.D., associate professor and chair of the Department of Biological and Forensic Sciences. “We strongly encourage our students to engage in research with faculty mentors because it provides opportunities for them to obtain hands-on experience and develop various skills, such as data collection and project management. Actively participating in research projects leads to conference presentation and publications, and thereby improves our students’ academic and professional profiles.”
Read the full article, here.
Florida A&M head coach Willie Simmons heads to Duke University
By Sheyla Fairley
Former Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, FL, head football coach Willie Simmons will become the new running backs coach for the Blue Devils at Duke University, Durham, NC, as part of his journey in becoming a Power 5 head football coach.
“After days of fervent prayer and reflection, it is with an immense sense of humility and gratitude to announce that my family and I have decided to transition into the next chapter of my coaching career,” expressed Simmons in a release. “My time as the Head Football Coach at FAMU has been truly amazing, and my wife and I are forever grateful to all of Rattler Nation for embracing and loving us the way only Rattler Nation can.”
Bethune-Cookman senior donates $1K to Boys & Girls Club through the Cricket Wireless student ambassador program
By Sheyla Fairley
According to an article, Bethune-Cookman University, Daytona Beach, FL, senior Sabrina Petit-Homme is the 23-year-old “daughter of Haitian immigrants and a sister to 10 siblings” and will be “the first in her family to graduate college.”
At the university, she joined the Haitian student organization Club Kreyol and worked as a Cricket Wireless Campus Ambassador where she was exposed to “the world of marketing” which inspired her to “pursue a master’s degree in business, with a focus on marketing.”
Through “Cricket Social’s yearlong giveback program and the company’s 12 Days of Cricket holiday giving campaign,” Petit-Homme chose to donate $1,000 to the “John H. Dickerson Club Daytona Beach Boys & Girls Club because she was a part of the Boys & Girls Club growing up.”
“I’m really happy that Cricket Wireless was able to, you know, let me give back to the organization of my choice, and I chose them because I feel like they needed it,” Petit-Homme said. “That was probably the best thing this year that I did.”
For more details, read the full article here.