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Jamaican Values and the Diaspora Movement
by Terry-Ann Smith
Thursday, July 10, 2008

What Lies Beneath the Surface of the Red Planet?
by Daniel Santillano
Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Hard Work Never Ends
by Nuruddeen Lewis
Saturday, May 10, 2008

Just Keep Running
by Sydella Blatch
Thursday, April 10, 2008

Global Perspectives
by Terry-Ann Smith
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Featured ScientistFEATURED SCIENTIST

FEATURED SCIENTIST Tyrone Hayes, Professor of Integrative Biology at UC Berkeley, is an endocrinologist known for his work on atrazine, a common pesticide used on corn crops. Hayes has found that atrazine causes hermaphrodism in male frogs by causing them to synthesize estrogen, the female hormone.

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Musician and JGH blogger Daniel Santillano studies marine microbiology in Germany.

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JGH blogger and future college president Sydella Blatch studies the vitamin folic acid.

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JGH blogger Nuruddeen Lewis is working towards a Nobel Prize.

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By Lovell A. Jones, Ph.D.   The March 26 perspective by Rebecca Voelker in the Journal of the...


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Dr. Robert DottinDirector Robert Dottin highlights the winners of the Just Garcia Hill blogger competition, articles that respond to James Watson, and the PBS series Unnatural Causes.
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Current eBriefing: Evolution, Health and Disease

Evolutionary medicine can provide a long-term perspective on why diseases exist, and offers fundamental insights into the nature of disease that can help to treat it.

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SurveyMonthly Survey Question
Healthcare has been a major focus of the 2008 U.S. presidential election, and the candidates have addressed the issue in different ways. What do you think is the best approach to provide healthcare for all Americans?
 The government should fund a single payer universal health care system as most industrialized nations have in place.
 The current system is fine, but needs to be expanded to cover more individuals.
 The government should mandate health insurance for all citizens and subsidize coverage for all those who are not insured. (The government contributes as well as the individual.)
 The government should not mandate health insurance for all citizens, but should provide coverage for all citizens who opt-in, if they request insurance. (The government contributes, and the individual can contribute if they so chose.)
 Free-market solutions should be allowed to run their course. Governmental intervention will unnecessarily encumber the system.
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Dark Matters
In this excerpt from his memoir, The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist, Neil deGrasse Tyson confronts the idea that “Blacks in America do not have the luxury of being astrophysicists.”
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Multicultural Education Benefits All Students
A 2006 study and others like it disprove some of the arguments made by affirmative action opponents.
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Still Absent
In this forthright essay, Cornell University Professor Eloy Rodriguez addresses the lack of Latinos in science graduate programs and faculty positions at the top research universities in the United States, and offers recommendations to improve the situation.
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The Candidates Tackle Health Care
Health care will be a focus of this presidential election, but there is limited attention being given to eliminating health disparities.
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Toxic Waste Facilities Continue to Threaten Minority Neighborhoods
More people of color live near polluting sites today than 20 years ago.
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