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Bringing Greater Impact

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The campus movement helped open the space for Black studies, and Black studies as a discipline in return would provide the curriculum that looks at the African American perspective. I taught Quest course (part of UF’s general education curriculum) with 66 students and a TA (teaching assistant); I never had a TA in my life,” Canton says. “I

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Dr. Sylvester James Gates, Jr.: Pioneering Theoretical Physicist Bridges Mathematical Worlds

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Professor Gates has been strongly supportive of the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) which my colleagues and I founded in 2003, says Dr. Neil Turok, who holds the Higgs Chair of Theoretical Physics at the University of Edinburgh. The fruits of Gates efforts to provide strong science education can be found across the globe.