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Upcoming & Important Dates
• Health Disparities Summit
Thursday, March 12, 8:30 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Keynote Dr. Tom LaVeist
BOA Bldg. Longwood Audit.
FREE Registration: www.mwul.org
• MEAC Basketball Tournament March 9 – 14 Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Winston-Salem, NC‚ game times TBA
• Hornet Fan CenterFriday, March 13, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. During MEAC Tournament. Holiday Inn Select, 5790 University Parkway, Winston-Salem, NC
• Spring '09 Open HouseSaturday, April 18, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.For prospective students
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 DSU Receives $1M Grant for PhD Neuroscience Program
Delaware State University has been awarded a $1 million National Science Foundation grant titled to support its new Neuroscience Doctoral Program and to build a consortium of neuroscience researchers throughout Delaware.
The principal investigator of the NSF grant is Dr. Leonard G. Davis, chair of the DSU Department of Biological Sciences, and the co-investigator is Dr. Melissa A. Harrington.
Support from an earlier HBCU-Research Infrastructure for Science & Engineering grant from NSF enabled DSU to establish a Master of Science Degree program in cellular and molecular neuroscience, which was linked to the Neuroscience PhD program at Drexel University.
Since the original grant began in 2006, this DSU master’s degree program has added 10 full-time graduate students. The grant also allowed DSU to hire new neuroscience faculty members and provide start-up support for them. DSU established its neuroscience doctoral program in the spring of 2007.
The centerpiece of the newly-funded project is to develop DSU’s new Neuroscience PhD program into an interdisciplinary and interinstitutional program in which students will take the majority of their… Click here for more information.
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 Tom Joyner Foundation to Help Raise Scholarship Funds
The Tom Joyner Foundation has kicked off an aggressive fundraising campaign for DSU. As one of the Tom Joyner Foundation “Schools of the Month‚” DSU will receive funds raised from listeners, alumni and other interested parties during the month of June.
 Dr. Washington Inducted into the Carver Public Service Hall of Fame
Dr. Ulysses S. Washington‚ retired chair of the DSU Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources‚ was recently inducted into the George Washington Carver Public Service Hall of Fame.
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Quincy Lucas, ‘04 and ‘07, made her mark with the new administration by introducing the President-elect Barack Obama during his train stop in Baltimore a few days before his inauguration. The DSU band also performed at the Presidential Inauguration…
DSUAA to Cosponsor Free SATprep
DSU is partnering with DSUAA and Bank of America to sponsor a free SATprep and financial aid workshop on Saturday, March 7 in New Castle, De Nationally acclaimed workshop presenter John Swann is scheduled to facilitate the training which will cover...
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DSU Conducts National Search for a
New Athletics Director
The DSU Athletics Director Search Committee is steadily working toward the selection of a new head of the University Department of Athletics.
The Hornet Men (5-7 conference and 7-10) and Lady Hornets (10-2 conference and 14-11 overall) will finish the season on the road in doubleheaders against UMES on March 5 at 7:30 p.m. From there it’s off to the MEAC Basketball Tournament at Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Winston-Salem‚ NC.
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