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gator for a $1.3 million grant that would fund the Impact of Oxidative StressRegulated Angiogenesis in Pulmonary Fibrosis research project. Dr. Iyer was

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dated tools. Dr. Azad, the co-investigator for this years grant, said, I was very excited. This money will help us enhance efforts right here [at Hampton] to continue our current biomedical research agenda and even allow us to hire more people. The Pharmacy School is planning to purchase fluorescent microscopes and other equipment for spectro photography. Dr. Azad is certainly no stranger to winning money for Hampton University. Just last year she was the principle investiher co-investigator at the time. Both Professors explained that they have an equal partnership and that working together plays a crucial role when trying to win grants.

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HU professor pays homage in biography

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Photo by Aquil Waters HAMPTON SCRIPT A proud Scripps-Howard Professor Wayne Dawkins, holds his book, City Son and the newspaper that inspired its title, The City Sun.

JaKari Taylor Contributing Writer Wayne Dawkins, assistant professor at the Scripps Howard School of Journalism and Communications, hosted the book signing of his biography entitled, City Son: Andrew W. Coopers Impact on ModernDay Brooklyn. The biography captures the activism that Andrew Cooper demonstrated in the battles he fought. Cooper was a life long mentor of Dawkins and gave him his first job as journalism upon graduating from Long Island University. Cooper was the pub-

lisher and Editor-In Chief of The City Sun, a weekly newspaper in Brooklyn, N.Y. The most noted achievement of Cooper was the case, Cooper v. Power. This case made way for Civil Rights activist Shirley Chisholm to become the first black woman elected to congress. Cooper was someone who, he didnt set out to be rich, he felt that he needed to make a difference and theres no question that he made a difference, stated Dawkins. Dawkins spent seven years researching and read over seventy books to complete the biography. Jocelyn Cooper, Coopers widow, person-

ally asked him to write this biography. The book signing consisted of Dawkins reading three excerpts from the book followed by a discussion. He also read the conclusion for

the first time at a book signing, where he broke down emotionally as he read his personal masterpiece. City Son is available in various bookstores and libraries worldwide.

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Expensive health insurance raises concerns

Imari Williams Contributing Writer Why is insurance so high? That was the question centered on every students mind at the beginning of the school year. The eight hundred and sixty four dollar Student Injury and Sickness Insurance Plan have caused uproar amongst students. This past summer students have seen a seven hundred and four dollar increase in insurance and they want some answers. According to Gallagher Koster, a full-service independent insurance program administrator for the education community, Student Accident and Sickness (Health) Plans have been regulated at the State level by each Division of Insurance. The Patient Protection & Affordable Health Care Act (ACA) passed in March 2010 set forth regulations for the individual and group insurance marketplace. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) proposed a rule to clarify that it considered student health plans a form of an individual plan. The HHS wanted to ensure the final rule was reasonable and fair to Colleges and Universities that sponsor a Student Health Insurance Plan. On March 16th the final rule was released and requires the compliance with initial phasing year had to be modified and enhanced in order to be in agreement with the new rule. Some students felt as though there were some alternative options that the school could have used to enforce the new rule. Alexia Barber, a junior political science major from Rock Hill, S.C., said, I feel as though the University should have come up with a better way in which students would have to pay for the increase. Students wished the University had done a better job of informing the campus about the insurance increase. Courtney Scott, a junior political science major, from Chicago, Ill., said I feel that Hampton University should have told us that this was a Federal Law decision. Scott believes that the campus would have reacted differently knowing it was put in place by the law and not the University going up in cost. The University offered a waiver for the Student Accident and Sickness Insurance plan for the 2012-2013 policy year. Students had to submit their waiver form to gallagherkoster.com/hamptonu by September 4th and be approved for the removal of the charge.

I feel as though the University should have come up with a better way in which students would have to pay for the increase.
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