By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
The fact that 90 percent of Fargo, North Dakota, residents are white would surprise few people. The city is known for its flat farmland, small-town values and history of Scandinavian immigration. But many would be surprised to learn of the recent wave of immigration...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Suzanne Mintz became a family caregiver when her husband, Steven, was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1974. In 1997, she left a career in interior architecture to take the reins of the National Family Caregivers Association (now the Caregiver Action Network), a...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
After 35 years as a professor of computer science at the University of Washington, Richard Ladner wanted to move from theory to impact. The hearing son of deaf parents, Ladner combined his expertise in computers and technology with an innate understanding of the needs...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Over lunch one afternoon in 2004, Elizabeth Huttinger listened carefully as evolutionary biologist Dr. Armand Kuris told her he had a cure for schistosomiasis, the fourth largest parasitic disease in the world. Huttinger, whose daughter was a student of Kuris’s at the...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
African American women are dying at rates that are greater than any other group of women in the United States — and most of these deaths are preventable. That fact inspired Marilyn Gaston (left) and Gayle Porter (right), both accomplished health professionals to...
