The Journal of Business – This state, this town, and even the Riverpoint Campus is big enough for two university medical-school programs, contends Lisa Brown, chancellor at Washington State University Spokane.Brown says there’s enough physical space in WSU Spokane’s Biomedical Sciences building and other facilities on the Riverpoint Campus to launch WSU’s envisioned four-year medical school and for UW to expand its WWAMI program.
The Chronicle of Higher Education – Howard University is using NSF money for a project “to disentangle the issues of race and gender and their relationship to factors that influence STEM interest and success” among black males. Faculty members at Washington State University are studying the career pathways of black male college students who are pursuing IT-related careers. Vanderbilt University is looking at minority-mentoring initiatives for black doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers in engineering, while the University of Central Florida identifies best practices and lessons that can be applied within STEM graduate programs to broaden participation and increase success rates.