Each November, we celebrate National Adoption Month—a time to raise awareness, honor adoptive families, and most importantly, recognize the children who are still waiting for their forever homes. As the Program Coordinator for Adoption Support for Kentucky (ASK), I have the privilege of working with foster and adoptive families across the Commonwealth, witnessing their joys, challenges, and extraordinary resilience. This month, I invite you to join us in celebrating adoption while recognizing the essential need for ongoing support and understanding for families as they navigate this life-chang

Idaho State University is empowering student interns to discover and develop their unique talents through the CliftonStrengths workshops offered on campus. These workshops are designed to help participants identify their top strengths and learn strategies to turn them into professional and personal success.

The Honda Battle of the Bands, a national event, will take place in Inglewood, California, at the 70,000-seat SoFi Stadium, which is home to the Los Angeles Rams and Chargers. The Alabama bands will be two of only six bands from historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) nationwide to be featured in the popular competition. Along with Alabama State’s Mighty Marching Hornets and Alabama A&M’s Marching Maroon & White, other participants are marching bands from Southern University and A&M College, Hampton University, North Carolina A&T State University and the University of Arkansas at

This month, the Arkansas Integrative Metabolic Research Center celebrates the completion of four years of research productivity and growth as a NIH-designated Center of Biomedical Research Excellence. Since AIMRC was established in 2021, AIMRC-supported researchers have secured over $34 million in external research funding and receive a majority of NIH funding on campus.

The introduction of Artificial Intelligence chat generators like ChatGPT brings with it some new concerns about academic integrity. That's why one Northern Kentucky startup is focused on detecting academic work not written by the student that submitted it.

Eloris Speight, executive director of the Socially Disadvantaged Farmers and Ranchers (SDFR) Policy Research Center at Alcorn State University, was presented with the George Washington Carver Public Service Hall of Fame Award during the Professional Agricultural Workers Conference (PAWC).

A collegiate distance runner, artist, and social media influencer, Amalia Dorion inspires entire communities. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with an emphasis in painting from Adams State University in the spring of 2024. A graduate of an El Paso, Texas high school and with family ties to eastern universities, her family assumed she would follow in their paths and attend college along the east coast. Imagine their surprise when Amalia Dorion announced her decision to attend a rural, state-supported institution in southern Colorado.

Mercer University Spencer B. King Jr. Center for Southern Studies will welcome John Blake, senior writer at CNN.com, for the seventh Laurie Byington Lecture on the Contemporary South on Thursday, Jan. 23. Blake’s lecture The Power of a Hopeless Cause will examine his family’s story captured in the memoir More Than I Imagined: What a Black Man Discovered About the White Mother He Never Knew. The events in the story shaped how reporting on race and mental health has changed in the region and nation in the past 20 years. The lecture is free and open to the public and will take place at 6 p.m. in