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Hear a profile of former U of M professor and Ann Arbor mayor Albert Wheeler. Also, Dr. Adrianne Haggins discusses challenges Black medical school students and doctors face today.
This story is part of a Michigan Radio series for Black History Month on Black Michiganders who made contributions to science and medicine.
Albert Wheeler understood that in order to succeed in science and medicine, Black people needed access to quality education.
Originally from Missouri, Wheeler arrived in Ann Arbor in 1937 to pursue a Ph.D. at the University of Michigan. Some of his mentors had urged him to go to medical school. Wheeler felt more suited to public health.
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CNAP is awarding research grants totaling $1.75 million to seven projects that address the challenge of climate change. Program Manager Maggie Allan says the diversity of the selected projects captures how technology is needed to address carbon neutrality but also much more.
“We know that a combination of strategies are going to be required for achieving carbon neutrality, so there isn’t one easy fix, and we need to come at from a lot of different angles and the projects we chose to fund do just that.”
Decisions on funding allocations required a rigorous review process of potential projects. CNAP selected projects with.
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It is widely recognized that the environmental justice movement first gained traction in 1982 in a predominately African-American community in Warren County, North Carolina. University of Michigan professors Bunyan Bryant (a graduate of EMU) and Paul Mohai were pioneers in the movement. Bunyan Bryant who in 1972 had become the first African American to join the SNRE faculty attended a meeting at the Federation of Southern Cooperative in Sumter County. Shortly after, he joined with Professor Mohai in Ann Arbor.
In the early 1990s, during the Clinton years, it was the period when the environmental justice concept “hit the radar” of the EPA and federal government. Professors Byrant and Mohai led a team of academics and activists to advise the U.S. EPA on environmental justice policy. Drs. Bryant and Mohai published
Dr. Kim Eagle, director of the U-M Frankel Cardiovascular Center.
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Ann Arbor cardiologist Dr. Kim Eagle says there s a tremendous amount of heart disease now in the United States and across the world. He says there are various types of heart disease that affect women and men, and he believes everyone needs to understand what their risks are. He said there are a number of tools to estimate your cardiovascular risk, including blood pressure and cholesterol, and he says there are several online resources that can be used as well.
Dr. Eagle says sometimes people don t feel unwell, even though their hearts may be challenged, which can be difficult to get patients to follow healthy heart advice. He says it starts with saying, I care about my own heart health, and let s have a back-and-forth about what can be done to improve your health. The cardiologist says he prefers to talk to patients about movement vs. exercise and encourages