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Georgetown, Howard, and Morgan State Partner for Environmental Data Initiative

Insight Into Diversity

The MDI is collaborating with Howard University researchers on projects that examine environmental impacts on disadvantaged communities, including air quality testing in low-income households, traffic pollution in marginalized populations, and health outcome patterns in Washington, D.C.

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Health Professions Students Grade Their Institutions on Climate Change Awareness

Insight Into Diversity

Students sign up to lead teams to evaluate their schools across five categories: curriculum, interdisciplinary research in health and environment, community outreach and advocacy, support for student-led initiatives, and campus sustainability. More than 80 institutions in seven countries participate in the project.

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Meet Some of this Year's MacArthur Fellows

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“They forge stunning forms of artistic expression from ancestral and regional traditions, heighten our attention to the natural world, improve how we process massive flows of information for the common good, and deepen understanding of systems shaping our environment.”

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Researchers Create Toolkit to Address Disparities in Transportation and Mobility

Insight Into Diversity

The auditing tool examines factors such as environment, safety, public transit, investments, and burdens, and activities such as walking and bicycling. . The process examines community characteristics such as race, income level, and preferred transportation such as driving, biking, walking, and transit services. .

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Unity in Action: Advancing Social and Ecological Justice through Diverse Perspectives

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Allison Davis-White Eyes More than anything, these professional paths — one focused on DEI and the other on the natural environment — address the significance and centrality of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in advancing social and ecological justice by holding a broad view of planetary justice.

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Town vs gown and car vs bike: row erupts over Cambridge congestion plan

The Guardian - Higher Education

Residents rally over scheme they believe will benefit only bicycling students and dons In 1381, a mob sacked university buildings and burned books in the town square, shouting: “Away with the learning of clerks!”