Dartmouth College Study Finds Cosmetic Surgery to Look Whiter Fails to Boost Women’s Self-Esteem
In a study of 63 women in Venezuelan, 24 who had undergone a rhinoplasty and 39 who wanted to have one, Dr. Lauren Gulbas, assistant professor of anthropology at Dartmouth College, found that all the women of African descent believed that having a nose job would improve their self-esteem.
Ohio State Faculty and Students Are in Ethiopia Training Healthcare Professionals
This summer the 20-member Ohio State contingent in Ethiopia will concentrate on educational efforts involving cervical cancer screening, rabies prevention, and improvements in food security and safety.
SUNY System Signs Partnership Agreement With the University of the West Indies
The State University of New York has entered into a partnership with the University of the West Indies to establish collaborative research projects and to facilitate faculty and student exchanges. The University of the West Indies has campuses in 16 countries in the Caribbean region.
Webster University to Open a Campus in Ghana
Ghana has a large and growing demand for higher education. In 1999 there were only two private colleges and universities in the African nation. Now there are 43. The University of Ghana enrolls less than 40 percent of the students seeking admission.
The Most Selective University in the World?
About 25,000 students took the entrance examination to qualify for admission to the University of Liberia in West Africa. None of the students passed the examination.
Two Universities Work to Battle HIV/AIDS in South Africa
Brown University has formed a new partnership with the University of Cape Town in South Africa to train the next generation of social scientists who will confront the HIV/AIDS epidemic in southern Africa. About one in six adults in South Africa is living with HIV.
University Survey Examines Poverty in Africa
The Afrobarometer was co-founded by Michael Bratton, a University Distinguished Professor at Michigan State University. Nearly half of all African respondents this year said that they go without food, medicine, or drinking water at least occasionally.
UAB Professor Gives Back to His Native Nigeria
Tolu Aduroja, an associate professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of Alabama Birmingham, returns to Nigeria each fall at his own expense and provides free health care to patients at a clinic in Ibadan.
University of Georgia Hosting a Group of African Journalists
Ten journalists from the African nations of Burundi, Congo, Niger, and Senegal will participate in sessions on broadcast journalism, media education, online media, and business models for success.
Pomona College Launches a Five-Year Africa Initiative
The five-year Africa Initiative at Pomona College in Claremont, California, will include a wide range of guest speakers, performances, and a visiting African scholar during the spring semester each year.
African American College Students Are Increasingly Studying Abroad
According to the Institute of International Education, in the 2011-12 academic year, Blacks made up 5.3 percent of the total of 283,332 students who studied abroad. This is up from 3.5 percent six years earlier.
Students From Sub-Saharan Africa at U.S. Colleges and Universities
In the 2012-13 academic year, there were 30,585 students from sub-Saharan Africa enrolled at colleges and universities in the United States. They made up 3.7 percent of the 819,644 foreign students at U.S. colleges and universities.
Chinese Government to Offer Hundreds of Scholarships to Black Students
The People's Republic of China will award 1,000 scholarships to undergraduate and graduate students at historically Black colleges and universities to study in China for periods ranging from three months to two years.
Tracking U.S. College Students Who Study Abroad in Sub-Saharan Africa
Of all U.S. students studying abroad, 12,859, or 4.5 percent, attended universities in sub-Saharan Africa. Among sub-Saharan African nations, South Africa was by far the most popular destination.
Sub-Saharan Nations Sending the Most Scholars to Teach in the U.S.
In 2011-12, there were 1,887 scholars from sub-Saharan African nations teaching in the U.S. This is down from 2,750 just four years ago. Nigeria sent 315 scholars to teach in the U.S., the most of any sub-Saharan African nation.
Texas Tech Partners With the National University of Equatorial Guinea
The nation of Equitorial Guinea is now the third largest producer of oil in Africa and is looking for international partners to develop its petroleum industry, agricultural sector, educational system, and tourism.
Trinity College Students Build Grinding Mills at a Refugee Camp in Uganda
In the past farmers at the Kyangwali Refugee Camp in Uganda, home to about 250,000 people, had to walk six hours with 100-pound bags of grain to access a facility that could turn their crops into food.
University of Rhode Island Students Provide Bikes for Africans
Students in a community service class in the political science department at the University of Rhode Island have collected 80 used bicycles for shipment to the African nations of Ghana and Uganda.
Howard University Announces Its Largest Contingent of Study Abroad Students
Howard University in Washington, D.C., announced that 61 students will be spending the spring semester abroad studying in 13 countries around the globe.
Major Program to Educate the Next Generation of African Leaders Is Underway
The first students in the MasterCard Foundation Scholars Program have completed their first semesters at U.S. colleges and universities. Over the next decade 15,000 students, many from Africa, will participate.
Texas Tech Professor Develops Online Petroleum Engineering Course for Mozambique Students
Significant natural gas discoveries have been found in the Mozambique Channel between East Africa and the island of Madagascar. But there are very people in the area with any expertise in petroleum engineering.
Four Foreign Students Graduate With Perfect 4.0 GPAs at Grambling State University
At the recent commencement ceremonies following the fall semester at historically Black Grambling State University in Louisiana, four students, all from foreign nations, graduated with perfect 4.0 grade point averages.
University of Rhode Island Graduate Wants to Restock the Libraries of His Native Liberia
Emmanuel Logan, a native of Liberia and a 33-year-old alumnus of the University of Rhode Island, is collecting used textbooks and is raising money through online T-shirt sales to ship the books to Liberia.
Alabama State University Offers New Study Abroad Opportunity in Peru
Under the agreement, students from Alabama State University can participate in laboratory and clinical research and study at the Tropical Pathology and Infectious Disease Association in Iquitos, Peru.
Duke University Promotes a Two-Way African Exchange
Two years ago, Duke University launched its Africa Initiative to increase opportunities for faculty and students in Africa but also to "Africanize" its Durham campus.
Spelman College Debuts New Study Abroad Program
The historically Black educational institution for women has developed a new study abroad opportunity for its students in conjunction with the Council on International Education Exchange.
The Young African Leaders Initiative Comes to Syracuse University
The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University in New York will host 25 students from Africa this summer as part of President Obama's Young African Leaders Initiative.
American University of Nigeria to Open New “Smart” Library
The American University of Nigeria is an innovator in digital library technology. The library has more than 200,000 electronic books and journals in its inventory.
University of Wisconsin Student Hopes to Establish a University in Burkina Faso
Ousmane Kabre, an accounting major, hopes one day to return to his native Burkina Faso in West Africa and establish a university for students from low-income families.
New Study Abroad Program Will Take 16 University of Memphis Students to Ghana
The African and African-American Institute at the University of Memphis is guided by the African proverb, "Those who learn must teach."
Delaware State University Enters Partnership With Celal Bayer University in Turkey
The two universities have agreed to explore possible joint research and teaching activities, faculty and student exchanges, collaborations in several academic fields, and exchanges of teaching materials.
Duke University Receives the Archives of Radio Haiti
For many years, Radio Haiti was the only alternative voice in a country ruled by military dictatorships. Broadcast tapes will be digitized and made available to researchers online.
Iowa State University to Develop Training Program for Plant Breeders at African Universities
Walter Suza, an assistant professor of agronomy at Iowa State University is leading an effort to develop online educational materials for master's degree students in plant breeding at three African universities.
North Carolina Central University to Begin a Bilingual Speech Language Pathology Program
North Carolina Central University, the historically Black educational institution in Durham, has entered into a partnership agreement with the Beijing Language and Culture University in China.
University of Kansas to Offer Courses in the Somali Language
An elementary class in Somalia will be offered at the Summer African Language Institute and more advanced classes will be offered during the 2014-15 academic year.
Oklahoma State University Hosting a Group of African Entrepreneurs
The participants studied U.S. history and culture, technology and social media, business development, and customer service. After work in the classroom, the African entrepreneurs have participated in internships with local agricultural firms.
