Researchers from Washington University in St. Louis find evidence that elevated stress exposure and its inflammatory correlates may contribute to Black-White racial disparities in mortality risk.

People who commonly experience everyday discrimination are more likely to have higher levels of “exhausted” white blood cells, suggesting that the chronic stress of discrimination may hamper the immune system, according to a new study by NYU School of Global Public Health researchers. 

A new white paper looks at designing higher education for women balancing caregiving, work and learning by University of Phoenix Dr. Jessica Sylvester.