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Kyhl Lyndgaard ’99 and Charlie Matuska ’24 will always share something in common – along with a few hundred others who have come through the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University during the last quarter-century. They’ll always have South Africa. Lyndgaard, who majored in English at SJU, was among the first to experience […]
In the late 19th century, after the Boston Female Medical College broke ground by offering medical education to women, a handful of other such schools for women opened in the U.S. (Schlesinger Library, Harvard Radcliffe Institute; Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection/Library of Congress) In Boston, 175 years ago, a medical college opened its doors to women, […]
Volunteers help distribute water at Asbury United Methodist Help Center in Flint, Michigan, October 20,2020. – Authorities say Flint’s water meets federal safety guidelines, outperforming comparable cities. Residents remain unconvinced. On a Tuesday morning, blocks and blocks of cars waited near a church in the eastern part of the Midewestern city to receive value packs […]
As COVID-19 remains a threat to public health, faculty members from the School of Public and International Affairs have continued research efforts to determine how the virus has left a lasting impact on individuals and populations worldwide. Noreen Goldman, the Hughes-Rogers Professor of Demography and Public Affairs, examined the impact of COVID-19 on life expectancy […]
Racism towards Black people is growing in Europe, with Germany, Austria and Finland showing the highest rates of discrimination and harassment, a survey of first-and second-generation Black immigrants in 13 EU countries published on Wednesday found. The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA), which commissioned the survey and analyzed its findings in a report, said that in the space of […]
Are 3D mammograms better than standard 2D imaging for catching advanced cancers? A clinical trial is recruiting thousands of volunteers — including a large number of Black women who face disparities in breast cancer death rates — to try to find out. People like Carole Stovall, a psychologist in Washington, D.C., have signed up for […]
Carole Stovall, a participant in the Tomosynthesis Mammographic Imaging Screening Trial, poses for a portrait in her office in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023. “We all need a mammogram anyway, so why not do it with a study that allows the scientists to understand more and move closer to finding better treatments and ways of […]
Are 3D mammograms better than standard 2D imaging for catching advanced cancers? A clinical trial is recruiting thousands of volunteers — including a large number of Black women who face disparities in breast cancer death rates — to try to find out. People like Carole Stovall, a psychologist in Washington, D.C., have signed up for […]
Those most at risk of facing eviction proceedings and having to move out of their rental homes are infants and young children, according to a new analysis by The Eviction Lab and the U.S. Census Bureau that, for the first time, tallies the number of people threatened. “What we realized is that children are the […]
Carole Stovall, a participant in the Tomosynthesis Mammographic Imaging Screening Trial, poses for a portrait in her office in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023. “We all need a mammogram anyway, so why not do it with a study that allows the scientists to understand more and move closer to finding better treatments and ways of […]