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Breaking Stigmas and Changing Lives

2020-08-31T12:35:42-05:00

Living a long healthy life is something that every person tries to accomplish. However, there is always a chance that disease will strike when you least expect. Sometimes the hardest part of any illness is not the disease itself, but rather having access to adequate medical aid and overcoming the mental stress associated with ...

Breaking Stigmas and Changing Lives2020-08-31T12:35:42-05:00

Turner Delivers Speech in Commemorating the Late Clarence E. “Bighouse” Gaines

2019-12-15T14:37:17-06:00

Dr. William H. Turner, Research Scientist and Leader of the Social System and Allied Research unit in the Cooperative Agricultural Research Center (CARC), delivered a speech commemorating a renowned and legendary basketball coach in HBCU sports: the late Clarence E. "Bighouse" Gaines, who coached for 47 years at Winston-Salem State University, winning 828 games, the ...

Turner Delivers Speech in Commemorating the Late Clarence E. “Bighouse” Gaines2019-12-15T14:37:17-06:00

Blacks in Appalachia and Turner’s Work Featured in the Washington Post

2019-12-15T14:37:17-06:00

Recently the Washington Post called on Dr. William H. Turner, Research Scientist and Leader of the Social System and Allied Research area in the Cooperative Agricultural Research Center (CARC) - and a former research associate from 1979 to 1991 to Alex Haley, author of the Pulitzer prize-winning book Roots-for a feature story titled "African Americans ...

Blacks in Appalachia and Turner’s Work Featured in the Washington Post2019-12-15T14:37:17-06:00

Turner’s Invited Essay Appears in Now & Then

2019-12-15T14:37:21-06:00

Now & Then: The Magazine of Appalachia, a quarterly published magazine at East Tennessee State University from its Center for Appalachian Studies and Services, commissioned a dozen scholars and researchers to comment on "The Future of Appalachia" for its Winter 2017 issue. William H. Turner, Research Scientist Leader, Social Systems and Allied Research, commented on ...

Turner’s Invited Essay Appears in Now & Then2019-12-15T14:37:21-06:00

Turner Named to the National Advisory Board of Art of the Rural

2019-12-15T14:37:33-06:00

Art of the Rural is a collaborative organization with a mission of building the field of the rural arts, create new narratives on rural culture and community, and contribute to the emerging rural arts and culture movement. Dr. William Turner, Research Scientist Leader, Social Systems and Allied Research in the Cooperative Agricultural Research Center, has been ...

Turner Named to the National Advisory Board of Art of the Rural2019-12-15T14:37:33-06:00