New studies show that astrocytes, long thought to be support cells in the brain, are crucial intermediaries for relaying messages to neurons.

"We were learning about the human body, the skull, our brain, our heart, our lungs, and I think our ribs, too." Dean Andrea Hayes Dixon of Howard University's College of Medicine said she believes ...

* Per the 2022-2023 final release data in IPEDS ‡ The median salary for workers with 10 or more years of experience per Payscale. Among the most prestigious historically black colleges in the ...

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. It’s homecoming season in African America—that joyous time of ...

Howard University not only clinched the top spot on the outlet’s list of HBCUs, it placed among the top 100 colleges in the northeast. Howard University has been named the nation’s No. 1 ...