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		<title>Xavier Students Bring Clean Water to Liberia</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 20:52:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The class – Sales for Social Impact – is based in the University’s Division of Business’ Entrepreneurship Institute. Led by E.I. director and professor Mark Quinn, the students are working together to create a business and feasibility plan for an innovative product with a focus on the African country of Liberia. The class was developed with the proceeds of a grant from the Frontline Program of the 3M Foundation.]]></description>
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		<title>North Carolina A&amp;T Researcher Named Young Investigator of the Year</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 16:55:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Shengmin Sang, lead scientist for functional foods at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University’s Center for Excellence in Post-Harvest Technologies, has been selected to receive a Young Investigator Award by the scientific committee of the 2011 International Conference on Food Factors. Sang was selected in recognition of his research with functional foods and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amidst Paul Quinn Efforts for Community Food Options, U.S.D.A Classifies South Dallas as &#8216;Food Desert&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 14:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Drive through neighborhoods south of Interstate 30, and grocery stores are hard to find. &#8220;There used to be one on this corner here but they&#8217;re gone,&#8221; said Charlie Campbell, a long-time resident, as he drove his Dodge pick-up down Buckner Boulevard. Grocery stores and access to fresh food are so rare in the southern half [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Southern Ag Center to Hold Global Food Security and Plant Biosecurity Symposium</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 15:53:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scientists and professionals who are working on the frontlines of Global Food Security and Plant Biosecurity research will gather for a Symposium at Southern University and A&#38;M College in Baton Rouge on November 8-9 to uncover potential threats to our nation’s natural resources and agriculture. “This symposium features presentations and demonstrations from researchers at universities [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Southern University System Goes Tobacco-Free</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 20:31:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Southern Board of Supervisors has decided to ban tobacco at all of Southern University&#8217;s campuses starting in January. The Advocate reports the move makes Southern the first college system in Louisiana to ban all tobacco products. Nicholls State University became the first public college in Louisiana to become tobacco free at the beginning of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Livingstone Students Go &#8220;Bald for the Cause,&#8221; Lend Support to Breast Cancer Awareness</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 13:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Laurie D. Willis Livingstone College News Service Livingstone senior Eugene Brown has felt the effects of breast cancer up close and personal. One of his aunts is a breast cancer survivor. Another aunt lost her battle to the disease in April. So last month Brown, of Suitland, Md., organized “Bald for the Cause,” an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fort Valley State Professor: Lose Weight by Consuming More Dairy, Less Meat</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 13:45:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Young Park, a Fort Valley State University professor of animal science, says the key to losing weight and maintaining healthy blood pressure levels is consuming more dairy products and less meat. According to a school news release, Park presented the information to an audience of Fort Valley State faculty, staff and students during a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Morehouse to Host USAID Administrator Raj Shah in Discussion on Global Health, Food Safety</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 13:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Friday, October 14, USAID Administrator Raj Shah heads to Atlanta, Georgia to meet with leaders from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC and to give a speech at Morehouse College. Administrator Shah will meet with CDC Director Thomas R. Frieden and CDCs staff to highlight the importance of CDC and USAID working [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NCCU Students Want Accused Classmate Readmitted</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 17:31:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some North Carolina Central University students are calling on university leaders to readmit a student who is accused of assault. Protestors gathered Thursday to voice their opinions. Classmates claim senior Roddrick Howell suffers from bipolar disorder, and Howell says the university&#8217;s investigation and punishment are unfair. Howell&#8217;s alleged victim says she doesn&#8217;t feel safe with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seized Pot Growing Equipment Given To Cheyney</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 14:39:51 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Cheyney University]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Equipment seized from a Philadelphia-area marijuana operation is going to be used to grow a different kind of herb &#8212; and vegetables, too. Delaware County District Attorney G. Michael Green tells The Philadelphia Inquirer the equipment taken in May from a sophisticated marijuana growing operation will go to Cheyney University and a Philadelphia community development [...]]]></description>
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