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Published on: 03-11-2021
The campus-wide health initiative of Oakwood University (OU) in Huntsville, Alabama, United States, titled “Healthy Campus 2020,” marked its fifth anniversary in 2020. With phase 1 completed, Oakwood is looking toward phase 2, “Healthy Campus, Healthy Community,” in which the university intends to promote health beyond its campus and address the needs of community members one neighborhood at a time.
As part of the phase 2 initiative, Oakwood University’s long-awaited Mobile Market was officially launched on February 2.
This initiative is part of an effort to address food insecurity faced by many residents of north Alabama residing in food deserts, and also to combat diet-related health disparities and co-morbidities that plague so many residents in the deep South, particularly in northwest Huntsville communities.
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Dove Award-winning and Grammy-nominated recording artist Karima, best known as the co-founder and member of the award-winning Contemporary Gospel trio Virtue, has signed with DARE Records. The new solo recording pact brings Karima s soul-stirring soprano back to fans within the urban and contemporary Gospel/Christian markets. Her first musical release will be announced shortly.
Returning to recording is a full-circle moment for Nashville-based Karima, who had taken a break from music to focus on family and entrepreneurship in the years after Virtue s last project. Within a few short months of deciding to re-enter the recording industry, and focusing daily prayers on that goal, Karima says she received a DM from Michael-Anthony Taylor, Chairman and CEO of DARE Records, asking her if she was interested in recording as a solo artist.
5 Questions with Akunna Iheanacho, Ph.D., Scientific Director, Texcell North America, Inc.
“5 Questions With…” is a weekly BioBuzz series where we reach out to interesting people in the BioHealth Capital Region to share a little about themselves, their work, and maybe something completely unrelated. March is WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH and BioBuzz will celebrate by featuring Women in the BioHealth industry all month, especially in “5 Questions With…”. This week we welcome Akunna Iheanacho, Ph.D., Scientific Director at Texcell North America, Inc.
Akunna Iheanacho, Ph.D., is the Scientific Director at Texcell North America, Inc., where she provides technical and scientific direction for novel assay development, virus purification efforts, and viral safety testing. She also serves as a Study Director for viral clearance studies. She is a subject matter expert with broad biotechnology experience and expertise in areas that include process development for large-scale cGMP manuf