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A clarion call to invest in historically Black colleges and universities

Candid

In 1837 Richard Humphreys established the African Institute, now Cheyney University, in Pennsylvania making it the oldest historically Black university in the United States. We were so excited! One friend turned to me and asked where I was headed; I proudly shared, “Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee.”

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How To Build Immunity To Burnout In The Workplace

Eric Jacobsen Blog

After several months of recovery and spending time reflecting on my unhealthy relationship with work, I decided to enroll in a doctoral program at The University of Pennsylvania. Usually the origins of these automatic, unconscious responses can be traced to childhood, where we learned them from caregivers.

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Solutionary Women: Jessica Jackley Flannery of Kiva

Have Fun - Do Good

I grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I have a wonderful family and had just the best childhood and the best growing up. So that's exciting to us. What is the path that brought you to this work? I loved every day. I felt very blessed all the time and I was very thankful.

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Measles cases in Texas now top 600. What to know about outbreaks from Pennsylvania to Montana

Fast Company Tech

Other states with active outbreaksdefined as three or more casesinclude Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Montana, Oklahoma, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New Mexico. How many cases are there in Pennsylvania? has more than double the number of measles cases it saw in all of 2024. North America has two other outbreaks.

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This tiny Pennsylvania community was deemed ‘expendable.’ So toxic waste keeps flowing

Fast Company Tech

YUKON, Pa.When government inspectors arrived at the hazardous waste landfill here in 2023, they found themselves in a barren and alien landscape carved from western Pennsylvanias green countryside. Pennsylvania is the countrys second-largest producer of natural gas , and much of the industrys solid waste ends up at landfills such as this one.

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Seven ways of looking at Elon Musk

Recode by Vox

SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk speaks at a town hall with Republican Senate candidate Dave McCormick at the Roxain Theater on October 20, 2024, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Michael Swensen/Getty Images Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency have been rampaging through the federal government.