National Student Speech Language Hearing Association Chapters Earn Gold Honors
For the second consecutive year, both St. John’s University chapters of the National Student Speech Language Hearing Association (NSSLHA) earned Gold Chapter Honors. The NSSLHA Chapter Honors are...
Large NIH Grant Awarded to Longtime St. John’s Professor
A St. John’s University professor recently received a four-year National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant totaling more than $650,000 to study the efficacy of DMA, a compound found to prevent preterm birth. This SuRE grant is awarded to institutions with students from backgrounds nationally underrepresented in biomedical research.
Speech-Language Pathology Students Work with Children in Spain
Students in the undergraduate Speech-Language Pathology program in St. John’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences traveled to Salamanca, Spain, during the spring semester to participate in a clinical...
St. John’s Researcher Studying Sharks for Clues to Cure Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s Diseases
Jai Dwivedi, Ph.D. , Assistant Professor and Director of Laboratory Instruction in the Department of Biological Sciences at St. John’s University, has been fascinated by sharks since childhood—and...
St. John’s Researchers Study Long COVID
Hoping to unravel one of the medical mysteries of the pandemic, a pair of St. John’s University researchers studied the peculiar phenomenon of “long COVID,” a condition in which some survivors endure...
Associate Professor’s New Book Explores the Relationship between Blackness, Queerness, and Hip-Hop
A self-described scholar, artist, and writer, Shanté Paradigm Smalls, Ph.D. , is Associate Professor, Black Studies, Affiliate Faculty for the St. John’s Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES)...
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Journalism Professor Wins Covert Award
Elisabeth Fondren, Ph.D. , Assistant Professor of Journalism, Division of Mass Communication , was recently named the winner of the 38th annual Covert Award for best mass communication history...
St. John’s Researcher Awarded NIH Grant to Create Inhalable COVID-19 Vaccine
A faculty member in the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences at St. John’s University recently received a $492,000 federal grant to develop a COVID-19 vaccine that will be self-administered by...
R.C.I.A. Journey for St. John’s Candidates Concludes
Nine members of the St. John’s University community made their commitment to a life of faith by receiving the Sacraments of Initiation at St. Thomas More Church on Sunday, April 24—an uplifting...
Pharmacy Professor Receives National Equity Award
For her outstanding work in the arena of reducing racial and ethnic disparities in health care, the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) and the Association of Black Health System...