July/August 2018 Beyoncé Announces the Recipients


of the Homecoming Scholars Award $25,000 Scholarships Awarded To One Student From Xavier University, Wilberforce University, Tuskegee


University And Bethune-Cookman


University — All Historically Black Colleges And Universities (HBCUs) Four More Scholars From HBCUs Texas Southern University, Fisk University, Grambling State University And Morehouse College To Be Awarded $25,000 Each Through A Partnership With Google.org. Scholars include a mass communications master's degree candidate from Grambling State University, a healthcare administration major from Texas Southern University, a dual major in English and music from Fisk University and a criminal justice major from Bethune-Cookman University


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DSU Researcher Discovers Correlation Between Songbird Species and Hurricane Predictions


BY DESU.EDU DOVER, Del. – A recently


published peer-reviewed paper by a DSU researcher of Veery songbird species migrations may provide meteorologists


another way to


predict the severity of oncoming hurricane seasons.


Dr. Christopher Heckscher, associate professor of environmental


sciences in the


College of Agriculture, Science and Technology, has published new findings that the length of the annual Veery breeding season when they migrate to South America as well as the number of eggs they produce


are predictors of hurricane season severity the following summer and fall.


Dr. Heckscher’s findings are included in his article “A Nearctic-Neotropical Migratory Songbird’s Nesting Phonology and Clutch Size are Predictors of Accumulated


Cyclone Energy,”


which was published in Nature/ Scientific Reports (www.nature. com/articles/s41598-018-28302- 3). More simply put than the article title, Dr. Heckscher has found that shorter Veery breeding seasons DELAWARE STATE PAGE 10


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COURTESY OF PARKWOOD ENTERTAINMENT/BEYGOOD NEW YORK -- Beyoncé


Knowles-Carter announces the eight recipients of the Homecoming Scholars Award for the 2018-2019 academic year.


The Homecoming Scholars


Award Program for 2018-2019 is a merit program and was announced in April. It is the second scholarship merit program from Beyoncé Knowles-Carter and BeyGOOD. The Formation Scholars Award Program was announced in the spring of 2017 and was open to female students across a variety of studies.


Award Program,


The Homecoming Scholars announced after


Beyoncé's brilliant first weekend Coachella performance, an homage to excellence in education and a celebration


of the homecoming


weekend experience, named four universities and extended the program to all


qualifying students at universities, regardless of gender.


The 2018-2019 disciplines include literature, creative arts, Af- rican-American studies, science, education, business, communications, social


sciences, computer science,


engineering and more. All applicants must maintain a 3.5 GPA or above.


the


BeyGOOD following Beyoncé's second


Google.org partnered with weekend


Coachella


performance, to add four more schools, including Fisk University, the alma mater of Beyoncé's father, Mathew Knowles and Morehouse College, the alma mater of Parkwood President & COO, Steve Pamon.


All qualifying applicants


submitted a 1,000-word essay about one African or African-American thought leader in their field who has inspired them to achieve their goals (educational,


professional, and/


or community-driven). The essay included how they plan to contribute to history through their own life's work. All finalists and the eight recipients were selected by committees from the colleges and universities.


The Homecoming Scholars for


2018-2019 are: Allana J. Barefield, Xavier University; Erin Evans, Wilberforce


University; Caleb


Washington, Tuskegee University; Demetrius Weaver, Bethune-Cook- man University; Jordan Davis, Texas Southern University; Dartisha Mosley, Fisk University; Cletus Emokpae,Grambling State University; Kameron Willis, Morehouse College.


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