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Terre Haute surprised Christina Blust. Fresh out of Xavier University, her degree in graphic design landed Blust a job just outside the city.

Meharry Medical College has been awarded a $21.4 million research grant, the largest in school history, to study disparities in minority health conditions.

The Airline Division of the Canadian Union of Public Employees is inviting air travellers and concerned citizens to the Nova Scotia premiere of "Welcome Aboard Toxic Airlines," a ground-breaking documentary on air contamination aboard airplanes.

NORTH AVONDALE - Concerned citizens got a chance Monday night to ask last-minute questions about Issue 3, the issue before voters next week that would amend the state constitution to legalize construction of one casino in each of Ohio's four largest cities, including one at Cincinnati's Broadway Commons.

The African American Chamber has played a crucial role in helping West Africa land projects with clients such as Towne Properties and Xavier University over the past few years.

Norman Francis , who has led Xavier University for 41 years, has been named one of America's Best Leaders in a poll conducted by U.S. News Media Group and a division of Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Name: John C. Lechleiter Occupation: chairman, president and CEO of Eli Lilly and Co.

With a dozen candidates vying for the four open seats on the board overseeing Cincinnati Public Schools , this year's election is turning into a big event for voters.

Winton Hills was the first of about 90 schools in Cincinnati to serve as H1N1 vaccination clinics, and health officials said everything went like clockwork.

The question is one of relevancy. What does an exhibit of several dozen photographs of the lynching of African-Americans have to do with contemporary society? A lot, say museum executives and academic advisers to the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center.

The Bathurst branch of the New Brunswick Society of Retired Teachers has awarded three $500 scholarships to three 2009 graduates of Bathurst High School.

Students at Xavier University spent their Sunday building a shantytown. The students began building a homeless camp in the middle of campus, using cardboard, pallets and plastic sheeting.

In 2003, a young woman began talking to Dr Hazel Brown as they prepared to give a press interview at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro.

Xavier University in New Orleans says a recent grant from the United Negro College Fund will help the university encourage students to apply business principals in efforts to ease social problems - a field known as "social entrepreneurship." The $92,000 grant was announced by the university this week.

President Barack Obama will be in New Orleans on Thursday, making his first post-inauguration visit to a city and region desperate to impress upon him both the long strides made since Hurricane Katrina, and the daunting challenges in housing, education, health care, levee protection and coastal restoration yet ahead.

Chillicothe graduate Seth Dawes, a freshman at Xavier University, has been busy with the Muskateers Fall Baseball workouts.

Ohio Rep. Louis Blessing and former Cincinnati Mayor Charlie Luken will be part of panel debating the merits of the casino issue at an Oct.

President Obama will visit the Martin Luther King Jr. Charter School in the Lower Ninth Ward and then hold a town hall meeting at the University of New Orleans Lakefront Campus on Thursday, the White House announced tonight.

Sunday, October 11, 2009 Vending machine based bicycle sharing on a college campus Apparently exists at only two colleges/universities in the county, first at Saint Xavier University in Illinois, and now at the University of California Irvine.

One of the most significant acts of espionage in history took place in Santa Fe at the close of World War II.

EVANSTON - The nation's economy is in the early stages of a rebound that could create growth that exceeds the average of the last 50 years, a noted economist told a group of bank officials and customers today in an optimistic forecast.. But Ken Mayland, president of suburban Cleveland-based forecasting firm ClearView Economics LLC, also told the ...

Regina Benjamin, the Bayou La Batre physician whose nomination for U.S. surgeon general breezed through the Senate health committee Wednesday, once interned for the CIA and has more recently served as a paid adviser to packaged food giant ConAgra Foods Inc., according to an interview and her answers on an official questionnaire.

Economist Ken Mayland thinks the economy should rebound powerfully through the end of this year and sustain that rally into next year.

James Cooper Mathewson was born in Vanceburg, Ky., on Feb. 2, 1920, to Otis and Grace Cooper Mathewson.

By most expectations, the New Orleans mayoral race should have had a passel of candidates by now, all elbowing for attention and funds.

Brandon Green wants a lot from his new school. Academics, especially science, his favorite subject, are a must.

Ohio hospitals, colleges, churches and businesses are preparing for a swine flu epidemic with extensive planning for a variety of scenarios.

Telling people you'll be commissioned as a second lieutenant in the army and, therefore, be the boss of 45 people is not a typical response for a graduating senior to the bittersweet question that goes something like "what are you planning to do after graduation in May?" In fact, senior international studies major Katie Wagoner is the only senior ...

The 4th annual Spin for the Cure will be held this year on October 10 at the Cintas Center at Xavier University.

A regional conference of educators and policy makers meets Oct. 20 at the Cintas Center at Xavier University to discuss how to ensure that Ohio high school students graduate with "21st Century skills." Such skills are said to be critical thinking, problem-solving, teamwork, creativity, innovation, technological and cultural literacy, and ...

Thirteen of 19 candidates for Cincinnati City Council support building a streetcar system in the city.