{"id":740,"date":"2026-04-09T14:47:53","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T18:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ctmh\/?p=740"},"modified":"2026-05-19T13:38:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T17:38:22","slug":"ctmh-affiliate-co-authors-findings-suggesting-hbcu-attendance-may-have-long-term-cognitive-benefits-for-black-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ctmh\/2026\/04\/09\/ctmh-affiliate-co-authors-findings-suggesting-hbcu-attendance-may-have-long-term-cognitive-benefits-for-black-adults\/","title":{"rendered":"Historically Black College or University Attendance and Cognition in US Black Adults"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"348\" data-end=\"749\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/profile\/maria-glymour\/\">Maria Glymour<\/a>, a professor of Epidemiology, co-authored a study published in <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">JAMA<\/span><\/span> titled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamanetworkopen\/fullarticle\/2844925\">Historically Black College or University Attendance and Cognition in US Black Adults<\/a>,\u201d which suggests that \u201cHBCU attendance may have long-term cognitive benefits for Black adults that are robust to historical and ongoing inequities resulting from racialized education policies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"751\" data-end=\"902\">The study has been featured in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/24\/attending-hbcu-cognitive-outcomes-black-americans\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">The Guardian<\/span><\/span><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theroot.com\/hbcu-alumni-score-higher-in-brain-health-than-pwi-peers-2000096785\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">The Root<\/span><\/span><\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackenterprise.com\/study-hbcu-attendance-brain-health\/\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Black Enterprise<\/span><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"751\" data-end=\"902\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/24\/attending-hbcu-cognitive-outcomes-black-americans\">IMAGE<\/a>: Howard University college students perform a walkout protest to demand \u2018No Cooperation With DC&#8217;s Occupation\u2019 on the Howard University campus in Washington DC on 9 September 2025. Photograph: Jim Watson\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maria Glymour, a professor of Epidemiology, co-authored a study published in JAMA titled \u201cHistorically Black College or University Attendance and Cognition in US Black Adults,\u201d which suggests that \u201cHBCU attendance may have long-term cognitive benefits for Black adults that are robust to historical and ongoing inequities resulting from racialized education policies.\u201d The study has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25686,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ctmh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ctmh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ctmh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ctmh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25686"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ctmh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=740"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ctmh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":882,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ctmh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions\/882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ctmh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ctmh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ctmh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}