Urban University Blog

Apr 1, 2020

University Maker Space & Medical Center Network Coordination

Calling All USU Innovation and Maker Spaces! Our friends at dpict—a design and facilitation firm— and The Value Web network would...

Jun 23, 2017

Urban Universities for HEALTH: Collaborating to Advance Health Equity

Not all Americans have the same opportunities to live in good health. Evidence shows that individuals identifying as minorities suffer...

Jun 2, 2017

Web-Based Toolkit Helps Universities Advance Community Health Equity

More than 60 million Americans live in areas without enough health care providers to meet demand – primarily in minority and low-income...

Mar 31, 2017

A Boot Camp for Innovation in Bioscience: LABioStart

Entrepreneurs play a critical role in our economy. The innovations they develop have a cascading effect on job creation, standards of...

Feb 24, 2017

Accessible, Affordable, Attainable: Reinventing Curriculum Delivery in Health Care Education

Adult college students who have made significant progress in their careers don’t have time to go back and start all over from the...

Sep 16, 2016

3 Wins for Students, Communities, and Public Health

One of the first things students ask when they walk into my office is: “What can I do with a kinesiology major?” When I flip the question...

Jul 29, 2016

Building a More Diverse Biomedical Research Workforce

“There just aren’t enough minority scholars in the STEM pipeline.” “Underrepresented students get so many scholarship offers, there’s no...