The Colonial Health Center reports an influx of students testing positive for flu virus, offers tips on prevention.
This year’s flu season has been hitting the United States at full force, and George Washington University is no exception.
Isabel Goldenberg, the director of medical services at the Colonial Health Center, said that the center is seeing double the number of flu cases it has seen in other years.
“This year we are a little bit alarmed because we have had a large number of cases of the flu,” Dr. Goldenberg said. “Since the students came back last week, we have seen several cases.”
Hundreds of volunteers complete service projects with area nonprofits, D.C. public schools and others.
Several hundred students returned to the George Washington University before their winter break was over to participate in a day of service in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.
On the holiday observing what would have been Dr. King’s 89th birthday, students and other members of the GW community gathered Monday morning in Lisner Auditorium for a welcoming program to begin the daylong task of community service projects on campus and around Washington, D.C. The day of service kicks off King Week programming throughout January that includes panel discussions, lectures and film screenings.
The theme for the day of service in 2018—the year that marks the 50th anniversary of King’s death—is one of the popular messages King shared in his lifetime: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
Romanieo Jr. plays piano for his parents. He enjoys the drums also, and spoke of his favorite musician. “Max Roach, of course, because he’s the best drummer I’ve heard of.” Photo via Howard Magazine
Howard University has produced some of the greatest names in STEM, many of them the first African Americans to achieve these feats. From the famed Kenneth Clark (B.A. ’35; M.A. ’36) and Mamie Clark (B.S. ’38; M.A. ’39)to Patricia Bath (M.D. ’68), the first Black female doctor to receive a patent for a medical invention, the list goes on and on.
Another such great in the STEM field, Harley Flack Sr., worked his way to become the founding dean and professor at the College of Nursing and Allied Health Sciences. One of his sons, Christopher Flack (B.A., ’95)worked in D.C. government and had a hand in converting the Ecology building on Howard’s campus to what is now the Howard University Middle School of Math and Science, more commonly known as (MS)2. Christopher Flack’s son, Malachi, recently finished 8th grade at the middle school, and his family expects “great things” from the third-generation Flack.
“I always love the fact that, when they came up with the concept of the charter school, math and science were put out front as key to their curriculum,” Christopher Flack said. “Of course, when it came time for Malachi to complete 8th grade, we sent him to the charter school. I guess the legacy had come full circle from my father to Malachi.”
Howard alumni around the world are creating lineages of brilliant minds, and in a world where careers in STEM fields are increasingly in demand, industry leaders and policymakers have been calling for improvements in K-12 math and science education as well as an increase in production of STEM undergrads over the last few years.
Cheri Philip (B.S. ’00) and Romaneio Golphin Sr., who attended Howard University for a year, have gone above and beyond in answering that call in their own way. They posted a video that went viral a few years back that showed their 2-year-old son, Romanieo Jr., answering questions about chemistry and physics while eating his Cheerios. The video was created in part to demonstrate some of the learning tools they’ve utilized to cultivate the nurturing learning environment that viewers saw Romanieo Jr. flourishing in at such a young age.
“We early on saw that he was very curious about the world around him, as every child is,” Philip said. “It’s not so much that Romanieo Jr. is so unique and exceptional as many have often asked or said of him, it’s really about the amount of time we put into understanding where he is and where he can go because of his interests.”
Howard University professor Daryl Harris, Ph.D., earned a Fulbright Distinguished Research Award and was able to travel to Nigeria to further that research.
Howard University professor Greg Reed and the research team he leads that uses the innovative technology, TeachLivE, a virtual classroom with intelligent avatar students, to help improve methods for educating future educators.
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