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NSF AWARDS ALABAMA A&M UNIVERSITY $2.2M FOR INSPIRE PROJECT

August 13, 2021 Bouldin 0

Unique STEM Support for College and Middle School By Jerome Saintjones, Director, Office of Marketing & Public Relations Alabama A&M University Huntsville, Ala. —- Alabama A&M University has received a $2.2 million National Science Foundation […]

Alabama A&M Athletics Story No. 1: Football Earns First HBCU National Championship in Historic Season

August 13, 2021 Bouldin 0

By www.aamusports.com/ HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – With the close of the most unique season in program history, the Alabama A&M Sports Information Office has been counting down the Top-10 stories of the 2020-21 season throughout the summer. […]

14 HBCUs will be part of historic NASA launch to the International Space Station

August 13, 2021 Bouldin 0

BY SARAH JONES-SMITH Flags, pennants and memorabilia of 14 HBCUs will travel in the unmanned Starliner spacecraft On Friday, the next scheduled launch of NASA’s Starliner spacecraft to the International Space Station will be carrying flags, […]

Black scientist fights to fund her potential cancer laser treatment: Bias in health funding

August 6, 2021 Bouldin 0

By Catherine Thorbecke and Samara Lynn How systemic bias may be holding back vital medical research and care. For the last five years, Dr. Hadiyah-Nicole Green, a physicist and cancer researcher, has fought to fund […]

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – An Alabama A&M student was a recent recipient of a $25,000 Más Scholarship from the Taco Bell Foundation

August 6, 2021 Bouldin 0

by: Jess Grotjahn Trinity Poplar is an entrepreneurship major in her junior year at Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University. Poplar’s mixed-media video submission was chosen and awarded part of $7 million in Live Más Scholarships.

GENERAL, ALABAMA A&M ALUM PROVIDES CAMPUS TOUR TO BOEING

July 30, 2021 Bouldin 0

Alabama A&M University alumnus and retired U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Patrick W. Burden and his Boeing colleagues toured the AAMU College of Engineering, Technology, and Physical Sciences on Thursday, July 15. Burden, a two-star general […]

$157,000 IN SCHOLARSHIPS AWARDED BY 100 BLACK MEN OF GREATER MOBILE

July 23, 2021 Bouldin 0

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) — Incoming college freshmen received a grand total of $157,000 in scholarships on Sunday. They were awarded by the 100 Black Men of Greater Mobile, a local organization that has been around […]

Extension Receives Grants to Support COVID-19 Vaccines

July 9, 2021 Bouldin 0

ALABAMA A&M UNIVERSITY & AUBURN UNIVERSITY, Ala.—The Alabama Cooperative Extension System, representing Alabama A&M and Auburn universities, received grant funding to provide much needed education about COVID-19 vaccines to Alabama residents. The grant money will […]

Alabama A&M gets $1.25 million from Apple as part of grants to HBCU’S

July 2, 2021 Bouldin 0

By Lee Roop Historically Black Alabama A&M University in Huntsville is getting a $1.25 million Apple grant to boost its tech curriculum and send more Black graduates into cutting edge computer fields. Perhaps as significant, Apple […]

AAMU TRUSTEES APPROVE $211M OPERATING BUDGET

June 25, 2021 Bouldin 0

The Alabama A&M University Board of Trustees on Friday, June 18, unanimously approved a $211 million operating budget for FY22. Presented by Dr. Lynda Batiste, AAMU’s interim vice president for business and finance, the budget […]