Sowing seeds of success: BIPOC Graduate Student Mentoring Academy creates connections that matter

Dalhousie’s BIPOC Graduate Student Mentoring Academy, currently in its second year, is opening new doors for Black, Indigenous and People of Colour (BIPOC) graduate students at Dal, offering tailored mentorship opportunities, professional…

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Amid opioid epidemic, Minnesotans of color have died of overdoses at disproportionately high rates

In response to the disparities, which are particularly stark for American Indian and Black Minnesotans, officials are investing millions of dollars from the opioid settlement in culturally specific treatment programs.…

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Ruben Vardanyan delivered a message to the Aurora Prize candidates from Baku prison [ARM sub]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=0NSBN5Euo9k During the 2024 Aurora Prize award ceremony, Veronika Zonabend, the wife of Aurora Humanitarian Initiative co-founder Ruben Vardanyan, read Ruben Vardanyan's message from Baku prison. Veronika Zonabend's speech is…

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Technology Addictions Are Real, but Treatable

Yesterday, as the 2024 Annual Meeting wound down, outgoing APA President Petros Levounis, M.D., M.A., capped his presidential theme of “confronting addiction” with a presentation titled “Technological Addictions: The New…

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Silver Medal-Winning Historical Fiction: Constance Hays Matsumoto’s ‘Of White Ashes’ Honored in the IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards™

Advisory Council Member and Chair of the Working Group on Nuclear Issues, Constance Hays Matsumoto’s historical novel, Of White Ashes (Loyola University Maryland, May 2023),received the silver medal in the 36th annual IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award™ program’s historical…

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