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Identities, the Focus of Black Men’s Research Institute Symposium

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“Further, Black male identities inform how Black men are positioned within and across society and the (mis)perceptions held about them as well as their interpersonal relationships and their relationships with various social institutions.” Young said there are scant opportunities for Black men to deal with issues of mental health.

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Black Men’s Mental Health Addressed During Black Men’s Research Institute Symposium

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The Black Men’s Research Institute (BMRI) at Morehouse College hosted its first Spring Symposium addressing health issues for African American men. Taken place at the Atlanta University Center’s Woodruff’s Library, the “Changing the Paradigm” symposium began its two-day conference with a discussion on mental health. Dr. Walter M.

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Dr. Yolanda Lawson Appointed President of the National Medical Association

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

She is also a member of the American Medical Association, the National Medical Association, the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and the Dallas County Medical Society. Lawson holds an M.D. from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.

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Jones Cultivates Inaugural Role in Faculty Development at Brown

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The author of Medicine and Ethics in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction (2015), her interdisciplinary research in the field of the medical humanities engages literary, historical, philosophical, and ethical explorations of black women’s health and medicine. There, she was Race and Difference Initiative Postdoctoral Fellow.

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Looking Back to See Forward - Dr. Nic John Ramos

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Ramos recently served as a Ford Postdoctoral Fellow in the Program on Race, Science, and Society at the University of Pennsylvania and as the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow of Race in Science and Medicine at Brown University’s Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice, the Department of Africana Studies, and the Cogut Institute.

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Survey: Students Cite Mental Health Concerns and Anxieties As Possible Deterrents for College

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

These student concerns over mental health were also found to somewhat carry over into their decisions to even go to college. The survey reaffirmed that mental health among youth in general persists as an issue. I think that these solutions, unfortunately, have to be society-wide in many cases.”

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Dr. Gary G. Bennett Appointed Dean of Trinity College of Arts & Sciences at Duke University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Bennett Bennett, a behavioral scientist, is currently vice provost for undergraduate education and professor of psychology & neuroscience, global health, and medicine at Duke. Bennett’s research interests focus on integrating digital health treatments into primary care settings serving medically vulnerable patients. Dr. Gary G.

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