MDH & MDE promote innovative use of technology: Text4baby

Across the country, pregnant women and new moms are signing up for free text messages from text4baby – a new free mobile information service providing timely health information to pregnant women and new moms from pregnancy through a baby’s first year. The Minnesota Departments of Health and Education have announced they are outreach partners for text4baby and are actively promoting this free service throughout the state. 

(GIN) – A Nigerian biophysicist and Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Bioengineering with the California Institute of Technology has been named among 23 new Fellows of the MacArthur Foundation for 2010, with each receiving a $500,000 "genius" grant.
John Dabiri, 30, will receive the “no strings attached” award over the next five years, enabling him to “reflect, create and explore” without stipulations or reporting requirements.

ST. PAUL -- If you travel within or to the Twin Cities metro area, you may soon be asked about the trips you make – to work and to school, to shop and to play. The Metropolitan Council will conduct its seventh regional Travel Behavior Inventory (TBI), starting next week and continuing early next year.

By John Platt

ShareEmailPrint.More than a fifth of Africa's freshwater species are threatened with extinction, and their disappearance could threaten livelihoods across the continent, according to a new study by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

SAINT PAUL – The Saint Paul Housing and Redevelopment Authority (HRA) recently released a Request for Proposals (RFP) for Professional Real Estate Listing Services to list properties rehabilitated under the Invest Saint Paul Neighborhood Stabilization Program. The RFP is posted online at www.demandstar.com.

Eighteen years ago, a professor in the University of Minnesota’s School of Social Work had an idea. What if you could bring kids together to sing in a choir and, at the same time, give them the chance to develop competence, confidence, and individual potential?
The idea became a program launched as an after-school music and youth development organization in St. Paul called CitySongs. In 2009, it became a part of the university’s new Urban Research and Outreach/Engagement Center (UROC) and moved its work to North Minneapolis. 

Nigerian Prof. Nok spoke in front of large of African Diaspora recently at the Eagan Civic Center about his discovery  of the sleeping sickness gene as well as health issues in general.

Professor Andrew Jonathan Nok (MFR), the professor of Biochemistry at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, is also the Dean of the Faculty of Science at the  Ahmadu Bello University.

Professor Andrew Nok  sat down with the African News Journal at Eagan Convention Center before the event and told  the paper

ST. PAUL, MN — Ramsey County Commissioners approved a resolution last week in support of the efforts of the city of St. Paul and the state of Minnesota to save the Ford Plant in St. Paul’s Highland Park neighborhood. The resolution was submitted by Commissioner Rafael Ortega, whose district includes the 86-year-old plant, and co-sponsored by Commissioner Janice Rettman.

By Gerald A. Montgomery

The networking and entertainment organization African Global Roots has certainly improved the 10-scale rating of its African Arts Festival series by at least 2 points, regardless of where you may have personally ranked their first.  In other words if you gave them a grade of, let’s say, “5 out of 10” you’d have to give them at least a “7” this year. 

President Mwai Kibaki has assured Kenyans in the diaspora that the recently promulgated new constitution will enable them enjoy the rights and privileges provided both in their country of birth and their respective countries of residence through the dual citizenship provision.