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Black Alumna of University of Southern California (and an AKA) gives $25,000,000 to alma mater.

Verna Dauterive came a long way from the segregated South to Southern California, and now she's giving back to the university that was the 'greatest influence' in her life.

Article about the gift
Biography of Mrs. Dauterive, including chapter affiliation

Power to End Stroke
 

Sorors, SF's and fellow GCers:

I was honored as my American Heart Association affiliate in this campaign entitled the Power to End Stroke...

The gala will be televised on the Word Network. The Affiliate honorees will be shown briefly. I am the one in the light green formal gown.

If you believe in ending stroke, please sign the pledge throughout the website.

There is a serious monetary aspect when a loved one suffers a stroke.

Congrats, Soror and thanks for bring attention to this campaign!

Congrats Soror AKA_Monet!!! That's great.
SC

Soror AKA_Monet,

what an honor:D congrats to you! strokes are a major health concern in our community. i agree, any attention brought to this condition helps.

Thank you sorors!!! Please join the movement and make the pledge! Teach yourself how to recognize symptoms of stroke it might save a loved one--maybe yourself.

Wonderful! We know there will be many more AKAlades coming your way.

Soror and my high school classmate
 

SU’s Leah Cullins to study at renown Genetics Institute

BATON ROUGE - Leah Cullins, Assistant Professor/Family Nurse Practitioner in the Southern University School of Nursing, was recently accepted into the Summer Genetics Institute (SGI) for training in molecular human genetics.

The SGI is a full-time eight-week research training program designed to provide a foundation in molecular human genetics for bio-behavioral research for nursing faculty, graduate students, and advanced practice nurses. The institute, which begins June 8, is sponsored by the National Institute of Nursing Research, National Institutes of Health.

“The institute will enable me to explore topics in genetics that are important to increasing my nursing knowledge,” Cullins said. “This opportunity will provide me with the ability to identify new genetic information that will be used to treat and prevent disease.”

Participants who successfully complete the program will receive 12 hours of doctoral level graduate credit awarded through Georgetown University.

Her work at the institute will also benefit her own research on breast cancer in African-American women, she said, by providing her information on the influence of genetics in that area of study.

Cullins has published her research on cancer fatalism and breast-screening in African- American women, presented her findings at symposiums, and is currently building a program of research on breast cancer.

Cullins received her B.S. in Nursing in 2001, and her M.S. in Nursing in 2005 from Southern. She received her Family Nurse Practitioner Certification in 2006 from Southern. She is currently working on her Ph. D. in Nursing Science at Louisiana State University’s Health Science Center in New Orleans.

http://web.subr.edu/index.php?id=146&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=152&tx_ttnews[backPid]=69&cHash=511f9d41e3

/crashing.
I was checking the grades for Ohio State University Greek System and I noticed Alpha Kappa Alpha was again on the list. I heard the Theta Chapter was reorganizing this year. I am happy to mention that AKA listed 44 "new members" on the chart.

I would also like to mention the 44 ladies had the highest GPA among all of the PHC chapters. Congratulations ladies!

As a resident of Washington, DC, I just want to say THANK YOU to the ladies of AKA for beautifying our city with your gorgeous pink and green this past week! Congratulations on 100 years of sisterhood and leadership, and I wish you all the best for NEXT 100!

1st Lady Michelle Obama!! :D
Representing the First and the Finest.

Soror Tapped by Pres Elect Obama
 

President-elect Barack Obama introduces his economic advisers and takes reporters' questions. (Getty)

http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik....1&disp=emb&zw
· See Soror Melody behind Obama

President-elect Barack Obama today announced the appointment of four key members of his new administration's economic policy team and issued a somber warning that the nation's economy "is likely to get worse before it gets better."

In a news conference in Chicago, Obama introduced New York Federal Reserve Bank President Timothy F. Geithner as his nominee for Treasury secretary, a choice that cheered the stock markets when it leaked late last week. He announced, as expected, that Lawrence H. Summers would become director of the National Economic Council in the Obama White House.
Obama also introduced two women as his picks to fill important policy jobs: Christina D. Romer to chair the Council of Economic
Advisers and Melody Barnes as director of the Domestic Policy Council.

I really admire Melody Barnes. Good stuff.

Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority has deep roots in Cleveland
 

This article will appear in tomorrow's Plain Dealer...

"Despite its centennial, Alpha was overshadowed here this year by the slightly younger Delta Sigma Theta, which broke from Alpha in 1913. Delta made the news when a leading sister, the late Stephanie Tubbs Jones, was succeeded in Congress by Marcia Fudge, once the sorority's national president.

But Cleveland has played a big role in Alpha too. Its Alpha Omega chapter, formed in 1913, was the sorority's first chapter for college graduates. Cleveland also has a second chapter for graduates, Lambda Phi Omega, and an undergraduate one, Omega.

Alpha Omega was the first chapter of any sorority to run a federal job training center -- the Cleveland Job Corps, which the chapter operated from 1965 to 1995. Now an Alpha Omega subsidiary runs Ivy Plaza, a senior citizen complex in Mount Pleasant named for a sorority symbol. "

http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2008...rority_ha.html

I thought this belonged here.
 

Congrats to soror Cassandra.