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JSU wins $75,000 top national academic prize in Honda’s HBCU All-Star Challenge

April 10, 2018

Jackson State University is $75,000 richer after students captured the top academic prize during the 29th annual Honda Campus All-Star Challenge (HCASC) National Championship Tournament in Torrance, California. JSU competed[...]

Pubic health professionals assembled inside the Jackson Medical Mall on Wednesday during National Public Health Week to share why their roles are important in saving humanity. Among the JSU alumni panelist included Dr. Nakeitra Burse, left, a grant writer in JSU’s School of Public Health (SPH); Jim Craig, director of Health Protection for the Mississippi State Department of Health; and Chris Cox, director of Youth Programming for Teen Health Mississippi. Other participating alums who shared their expertise were D’Angelique Lister, a school health coordinator for Partnership for a Healthy Mississippi; Dr. Amy Radican-Wald, a senior policy analyst for the Center for Mississippi Health Policy; and Dr. Vincent Mendy, an assistant professor in JSU’s Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. Alum and moderator Christopher Lane, a research compliance officer in JSU’s Division of Research and Federal Relations, earned his master’s in public health in 2016.

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Public Health alums urge access to medical care, quality education to improve lives

April 9, 2018

During National Public Health Week recently, several alumni from JSU’s School of Public Health (SPH) touted the importance of their profession and said a lack of access to medical care[...]

Dr. Mohammad Shahbazi, interim dean of the JSU School of Public Health, said the nation focuses too much on treatment rather than prevention.

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With $1.8 million boost for School of Public Health, JSU aims to help eliminate disparities

April 6, 2018

Jackson State University said $1.8 million allocated recently by legislators to the School of Public Health (SPH) should help in the fight to eliminate health disparities even as many Americans’[...]

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MADDRAMA brings the ‘drama’ at Mayor Lumumba, Bernie Sanders town hall

April 6, 2018

Drama was definitely in the building at the “Examining Economic Justice 50 Years Later” town hall conversation with Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba and U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders at Thalia[...]

Local artist Chancellor Harris says markers are his specialty as he exhibits his drawings at JSU's Art Spot. "When my grandma died, I got involved with art. It helped me out with my depression. I just put my emotions into my art," said the Memphis native.

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The Art Spot shows youth the sky is the limit

April 3, 2018

Inside and outside Johnson Hall, creativity was in full bloom at “The Art Spot: Each One Teach Many” event hosted by the Jackson State University College of Education and Human[...]

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NASW presents JSU professor with Social Worker of the Year Award

April 3, 2018

College of Public Service adjunct professor Charles Araujo received the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) Mississippi chapter Social Worker of the Year Award. The 2018 NASW Social Worker[...]

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Meteorology senior may soon discover a new star – himself as a musician

April 2, 2018

JSU meteorology major and singer/drummer Keon Gibson always has been fascinated with celestial phenomena, and, as a multitalented student, he may soon experience galactic success if his debut single skyrockets[...]

Staff members of JSU's student-led newspaper The Blue & White Flash show off the many awards they received from the Mississippi Press Association. (Photo special to JSU)

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The Blue & White Flash collects 16 awards at O.C. McDavid Journalism Conference

April 2, 2018

The Blue and White Flash won a total of 16 awards and two first-place plaques in the student division of the 2017-2018 Better Newspaper Contest at the 20th annual O.C.[...]

JSU students and members of the theatrical performance troope MADDRAMA brought home more first-place awards than their competitors at the 82nd Annual National Association of Dramatic and Speech Arts Competition in March. (Photo by Charles A. Smith/JSU)

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JSU’s performance troupe MADDRAMA racks up the wins at national drama competition

April 2, 2018

Jackson State University’s student performance troupe MADDRAMA recently racked up the wins at the 82nd National Association of Dramatic and Speech Arts Conference at Dillard University where they contended against[...]

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ASPA presents JSU professor with the Donald Stone Service Award

March 29, 2018

Jackson State associate professor Dr. Gloria Billingsley received the Donald Stone Award for Service from the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) at a recent annual conference in Denver,[...]

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