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Davis, Peterson, Theodore and Weems-Oluremi receive prestigious Novartis summer fellowship

Meharry SACS students LaPorchia Davis, Dyani Peterson, Jean Hus Theodore and Ebony Weems-Oluremi, Ph.D., have received a Novartis Beacon of Hope Summer Fellowship at Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research....

Franklin receives Genomic Epidemiology Fellowship

Meharry Biomedical Data Science Ph.D. student Victoria Franklin has received a Genomic Epidemiology Fellowship....

NSF I-CORPS Welcomes David Lockett, Loni Taylor and Courtney Quarterman into 2025 winter cohort

Congratulations to Meharry SACS Data Science Ph.D. students, David Lockett, Loni Taylor and Courtney Quarterman on their acceptance into the prestigious 2025 NSF I-Corps Winter Cohort! This exclusive program, offered […]

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The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Board Elects Dean Daniel Dawes

Media Contact: Jolene Butts Freeman AVP Communications and Marketing Cell: 615 887-2947 jolene.freeman@mmc.edu   FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Board Elects Daniel Dawes […]

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Meharry Medical College Welcomes Dr. Huishi Toh, PhD, as Assistant Professor in the Department of Integrative Genomics and Epidemiology

Meharry Medical College is thrilled to welcome Dr. Huishi Toh as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Integrative Genomics and Epidemiology, School of Graduate Studies, and as a faculty […]

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SOGS Department of Applied Education offers new degree programs

The School of Graduate Studies Department of Applied Education is proud to announce two new degree programs designed to meet the growing demand for skilled leaders in the health care […]

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Michelle Steele selected for 2025 Health Care Council Fellows cohort

Michelle Steele, Ed.D., Meharry’s associate vice president for external affairs and chair of the Department of Applied Education in the School of Graduate Studies, was selected for the 2025 Nashville Health […]

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Meharry SACS announces new faculty

Drs. Khairi, Mamun and Muallem join SACS faculty....
Drs. Khairi, Mamun and Muallem join SACS faculty.

Marvin B. Figueroa, Appointed Distinguished Visiting Fellow and Founding Faculty Member at Meharry Medical College’s School of Global Health 

Marvin B. Figueroa, Appointed Distinguished Visiting Fellow and Founding Faculty Member at Meharry Medical College’s School of Global Health Former U.S. Senate Chief of Staff and Health Policy Leader to Shape Future […]

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Meharry SACS Students Rukundo and Theodore Awarded Prestigious Thurgood Marshall College Fund Scholarship 

Ange Rukundo, a data science master’s student, and Jean-Hus Theodore, a biomedical data science student, have been awarded a scholarship from the esteemed Thurgood Marshall College Fund offered in partnership with Novartis pharmaceuticals....
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Ten Meharry SACS students receive Oracle “Inspire Your Future” Scholarship

Ten students at Meharry School of Applied Computational Sciences have been awarded an Oracle “Inspire Your Future” Scholarship. The initiative includes a $25,000 scholarship which students can use towards their education at Meharry....

Tech giant Oracle establishes scholarship for Meharry School of Applied Computational Sciences

BY MATT ANDERSON • While Black workers account for just 5 percent of engineers and architects and 7 percent in computer occupations today, Oracle is looking to help close this […]

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Tech Giant Oracle Establishes $500,000 Scholarship Fund for Meharry SACS

While black workers account for just 5% of engineers and architects and 7% in computer occupations today, Oracle is looking to help close this disparity gap. Recently, the tech leader granted Meharry Medical College - School of Applied Computational Sciences (SACS) $500,000 in scholarship funds as a part of its...
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Taylor speaks on race and risk at National Big Data Health Science Conference

When Loni Taylor presented at the National Big Data Health Science Conference at the University of South Carolina, she expected to contribute important insight into race and Alzheimer’s Disease. Instead, the Biomedical Data Science Ph.D. student experienced much more. She met students and faculty from several institutions who share her...

Taylor publishes paper proposing practical methods to visualize educational big data

Ph.D. Biomedical Data Science student Loni Taylor’s work to visualize big educational data with speed and accuracy has been published in the journal “Multimodal Technologies and Interaction” (MTI), a leading international peer-reviewed journal for the data visualization research....
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Taylor publishes paper proposing practical methods to visualize educational big data

Ph.D. Biomedical Data Science student Loni Taylor’s work to visualize big educational data with speed and accuracy has been published in the journal “Multimodal Technologies and Interaction” (MTI), a leading international peer-reviewed journal for the data visualization research....
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Taylor machine learning project identifies diseases using X-ray images

Shara Taylor, an M.S. Data Science candidate, recently gained hands-on experience using X-ray images to distinguish COVID-19 from other illnesses affecting the lungs....

T4C and DHGI—An ambitious, new undertaking that will affect the lives of Black populations worldwide

Wednesday, October 18, 2023 was a historic day for Meharry Medical College with the launch of the Together for CHANGE (T4C) initiative, the inaugural project of the Diaspora Human Genomics […]

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Study finds caregivers of HCT patients likely to adopt digital health technologies

From mobile apps to the sharp increase in telehealth during the coronavirus pandemic, digital health technologies have become an important aspect of health care. As the use of these tools […]

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Students Converge at Meharry to Build Tech Skills—and a Greener Future—at 2025 MS-CC Hackathon  

Dozens of students from historically black colleges and universities gathered at Meharry SACS for an electrifying hackathon that blended technical skill-building with environmental consciousness. As part of the 2025 Minority Serving – Cyberinfrastructure Consortium (MS-CC) Annual Meeting, participants collaborated to develop an innovative household carbon footprint calculator—a tool that empowers...

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