Washington, D.C. - Howard University Graduate School will sponsor the annual Edward Alexander Bouchet Forum on Friday, September 14, 2007, from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon in the School of Business Auditorium.  Julian M. Earls, Ph.D., Executive in Residence of the Nance College of Business Administration at Cleveland State University in Cleveland, Ohio and co-chair of the Science and Mathematics Education Policy Advisory Council for the State of Ohio, will be the keynote speaker.  Dr. Earls has received nine academic degrees, including a Ph.D. degree in Radiation Physics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His numerous honorary degrees include an Honorary Doctorate of Science from Howard University in May 2007. 

            The Bouchet Honor Society was established in 2005 by graduate students and administrators at Howard, the nation’s largest on-campus producer of African-American Ph.D. recipients, and Yale to commemorate Edward A. Bouchet, first African American to obtain a Ph.D. degree in the U.S., which he received in physics from Yale in 1876. The goal of the Bouchet Honor Society is also to produce graduates of high caliber who are prepared to be scholars and who are committed to providing advanced higher educational opportunities for graduate students across the nation. Inductees exhibit the characteristics of academic excellence and service exemplified by Bouchet during his lifetime. During the ceremony at Howard, new inductees will be honored.   

            Since establishing the society, eight other leading research universities have joined the effort to not only honor the legacy of Bouchet, but to promote diversity in doctoral education and the professoriate.   In addition to Howard and Yale, the other members include Cornell and Georgetown universities, Washington University at St. Louis, and the Universities of Washington and Michigan.

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