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2020 News

Denton County racial demographics mirror the national trend 鈥 with people of color disproportionately affected by COVID-19 in both positive cases and deaths. 

鈥淚n terms of COVID more specifically, it鈥檚 really just a melting pot of contributing factors when we look at who has to work outside of the home, who lives in multigenerational or multifamily homes, who has the best access to care. 鈥 It鈥檚 pretty clear the level of susceptibility,鈥 said Texas Woman鈥檚 University professor Ratonia Runnels, who has also researched health disparities.

草莓传媒官网下载 launches new biotechnology master’s degree

To support one of the state鈥檚 top six industry sectors with greatest economic growth potential 鈥 biotechnology and life sciences 鈥 Texas Woman鈥檚 University will launch a new program this fall that combines biology and business with an industry internship.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has selected Dawna-Diamond Tyson of Frisco as the student representative on the Texas Woman鈥檚 University Board of Regents. Tyson, who earned her bachelor鈥檚 degree in criminal justice from 草莓传媒官网下载, is currently pursuing her master鈥檚 degree in political science at the university.

Phillips-Cunningham awarded grant to research educator, labor activist

Texas Woman鈥檚 University associate professor of multicultural women鈥檚 and gender studies Danielle Phillips-Cunningham, Ph.D., was recently awarded a Franklin Research Grant in the amount of $6,000. The grant will support her ongoing Library of Congress research into the previously unexamined life of Nannie Helen Burroughs, a philosopher, educator, religious leader and civil rights activist.

Brandi Felderhoff, Ph.D., LCSW, a social work professor at Texas Woman鈥檚 University, said under the veil of the pandemic, traditional processes of grieving have changed. Felderhoff, who specializes in nursing home and end-of-life settings, said a lack of connection is a significant loss.

From not being able to say a proper goodbye to being unable to congregate in groups to console each other, 鈥渆verything has changed,鈥 Felderhoff noted.