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According to a statement put out on their own social media pages, Texas Southern University will grant a full scholarship to George Floyd‘s six-year-old daughter, Gianna, if she decided she wanted to enroll there. Obviously that decision won’t be made for awhile. That university is stationed in Houston, which is the city that Floyd was […]
13-year-old California boy Jack Rico has just acquired his fourth associate’s degree, adding his name to a small but distinguished list of peers who also made headlines for snagging college diplomas at young ages. Not bad. People, citing his mother (Ru Andrade), adds that the teen got degree No. 4 from Fullerton College this past […]
Princeton University has announced Nicholas Johnson, a student who majored in operations research and financial engineering, as the school’s first black valedictorian in its 274-year history. Johnson is also pursuing certificates in statistics and machine learning, applied and computational mathematics, and applications of computing. Johnson, a Montreal native, will spend the summer interning at the D.E. Shaw Group […]
Pharrell Williams kept things close to home by surprising the graduates of a local Virginia HBCU. Norfolk State University was forced to give its students a virtual graduation due to the coronavirus pandemic. However, this served as the perfect opportunity for Pharrell to give back to his fellow Tidewater natives through an inspiring commencement speech. “Even if this […]
A medical researcher who was reportedly close to making important findings on the coronavirus has been found shot dead in a home just outside of Pittsburgh. NBC News reports that 37-year-old Bing Liu, who worked at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, was found dead with a bullet wound in his head and neck. Just an hour […]
Like pretty much every other student set to graduate this summer, seniors on their way out of Ohio’s Wright State University had their in-person ceremony called off due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead, they had to go the virtual route, meaning things were set to be just as boring without the in-person moment of glory […]
One high school senior from Florida has a lot of options when it comes to his future, with all eight Ivy League schools accepting him. The New York Times reports that 18-year-old Craig McFarland of Jacksonville, Florida, received a total of 17 acceptance letters from different college and universities. He first received an acceptance to Yale University […]
A college recruiter has been fired after asking high school students to line up according to hair texture and skin color during a visit to their school. Eleventh grade students at Harding Charter Preparatory High School in Oklahoma City told the local NBC affiliate that a recruiter from Oklahoma Christian University visited their school on Monday. During […]
A former Drexel University professor is facing theft charges after he allegedly blew nearly $200,000 of the school’s grant money on partying with strippers. At one point, Chikaodinaka Nwankpa was the head of the electrical engineering department at Drexel. Now the Philadelphia District Attorney’s office says he was charged with felony counts of unlawful taking and theft by deception for abusing […]
Two chemistry professors have been watching too much Breaking Bad, apparently. Terry David Bateman and Bradley Allen Rowland were arrested Friday for making methamphetamine, according to KATV. The pair, who both work as associate professors of chemistry at Arkansas’ Henderson State University, are facing charges of manufacturing methamphetamine and using drug paraphernalia. WHOA. Two chemistry […]
