Social Science
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Elizabeth Clark-Lewis
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HISTORY
Elizabeth Clark-Lewis, Assoicate Professor, Ph.D. University of Maryland, College Park.A historian of the United States, Professor Clark-Lewis has taught courses on African-American women, women in the United States, African-American history, history of the District of Columbia, and the history of African-Americans in Pennsylvania. As the director of the department’s Public History program, she also has offered courses on museums and archives, oral history, historic preservation and a seminar in the field. In conjunction she has taught students about genealogical research, family history and genealogy, and courses on related themes. She has published books and articles on these subjects, among them First Freed: Emancipation in the District of Columbia (1998) and Living In, Living Out: African American Domestics in Washington, DC (1994, paperback 1996), winner of the Letitia Brown Prize in Women’s History. Over a dozen articles on women, race, household workers, and related subjects have appeared in such journals as Washington History, Truth: Journal of the Association of Black Women, the National Genealogical Society Quarterly, and the Afro-American Genealogical Society Newsletter, and as chapters in books. Professor Clark-Lewis also was the project director and producer for the PBS documentary film, "Freedom Bags," which won the Oscar Micheaux Award. Her work has been supported by numerous research grants from the National Park Service, the National Endowment for the Arts, D C Arts and Humanities Council, several private and corporate foundations, the state of Virginia, WETA Channel 26 [PBS], and Howard University. Along with a postdoctoral research fellowship from the Smithsonian Institution, Professor Clark-Lewis has gained recognition through many awards, including the Best Documentary award from the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame, a Gold Apple award from the National Education Association, a First Place at the American Film and Video Festival as well as graduate research awards from the Ford Foundation and the Shomacher Foundation.
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Edna Greene Medford
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HISTORY
Dr. Edna Greene Medford is an associate professor in the Department of History at Howard University. She teaches graduate courses in Comparative Slavery, Colonial America, and Jacksonian America, as well as survey courses in United States History and the African Diaspora. Believing that an appreciation for history must extend beyond the halls of the academy, Dr. Medford lectures widely to community-based organizations and professional groups. She serves as historian to the Charles City County (VA) Historical Society, is a member of the Board of Advisors of the Lincoln Forum, and is affiliated with several other professional organizations in her field. Dr. Medford has worked periodically with C-SPAN in their broadcast of historical programs and has been interviewed for several segments of the television program "Civil War Journal." She has served as faculty advisor for the last eight years of the award-winning chapter of the history honor society. Currently, Dr. Medford serves as associate director for History of the African Burial Ground Project: In this role she coordinates the research of a team of historians charged with studying the population of African New Yorkers who were interred in the eighteenth-century cemetery excavated in 1991 in lower Manhattan. Most of Dr. Medford’s publications address the issue of life and labor among African Americans in Tidewater Virginia in the nineteenth century or concerns the relationship between Abraham Lincoln and African-Americans.
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Joseph P. Reidy
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HISTORY
Joseph P. Reidy earned his Ph.D. in history from Northern Illinois University in 1982. From 1977 to 1984, he was an editor with the Freedmen and Southern Society Project at the University of Maryland, College Park. During that time he helped produce Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867 (4 vols, 1982-1993); Free At Last: A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom, and the Civil War (1992); and Slaves No More: Three Essays on Emancipation and the Civil War (1992). He has also written From Slavery to Agrarian Capitalism in the Cotton Plantation South: Central Georgia, 1800-1880 (1992), and numerous articles and chapters in collected works. Since 1984 he has taught at Howard University, specializing in nineteenth-century United States history. At present, he is a graduate professor of history and the associate dean of the Graduate School. He also directs the African American Sailors Research Project, an investigation into the experience of black sailors in the U.S. Navy during the Civil War.
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Emory Tolbert
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HISTORY
Emory Tolbert, Ph.D.University of California, Los Angeles. Professor Tolbert teaches courses on United States history, the African Diaspora , and oral history. He was the Senior Editor, of the Marcus Garvey and UNIA Papers, Volumes One through Four (1984-1986). His books include Perspectives on the African Diaspora, Volumes One and Two (1998-1999), Race and Culture in America (1987). and The UNIA and Black Los Angeles: Ideology and Community in the American Garvey Movement (1980), and he has published numerous articles on these and related subjects His primary areas of research interest are the African Diaspora, the Garvey Movement and African Americans in the American West.
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John Walton Cotman
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POLITICAL SCIENCE
Dr. John Walton Cotman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Howard University. His specializations are Comparative Politics and International Relations, with a regional focus on the Caribbean. His current research concerns regional integration efforts in the Caribbean involving Cuba and the English-speaking nations of the Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM).
A native of Springfield, Massachusetts, Dr. Cotman received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Boston University in 1992. His graduate training included study at Yale University, where he was a member of the Southern Africa Research Program. Cotman received a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
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Donn Davis
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POLITICAL SCIENCE
Donn Davis
1965 to 1975 - University of California, Berkeley: B.A., M.A., Ph.D., in Political Science. Concentrations: American Government and Politics; Comparative Politics (Africa and Asia); International Relations (World Order Studies); and African-American Politics.
1973 to 1975 - Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut: Post-doctoral research: Psychology and Politics. Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut: M.S. L. Concentrations: International Human Rights and Constitutional Law.
Sumner, 1988 - Oxford University, Oxford, England: Diploma, Institute on International and Comparative Law: Contracts and Criminal Law Tutorials.
Since 1996, Dr. Davis serves as associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Howard University. He also serves as faculty advisor for the Pre-Law Program at Howard University and a member of the Judiciary Committee in the College of Arts and Sciences at Howard University. Dr. Davis serves as Adjunct Professorial Lecturer at George Washington University in Washington, DC.
Dr. Davis’ area of competencies and teaching fields are American Government and Politics; Comparative Politics (Africa and Asia); International Relations (World Order Studies); Law and Society; African-American Politics; Public Policy Formulation; Legislative Process, and Congress and Presidential Policymaking.
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Maurice Woodward
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POLITICAL SCIENCE
Dr. Maurice C. Woodard received his doctorate from the University of Kansas in 1969, having completed his undergraduate degree at Prairie View University. As graduate program director of the Department of Political Science, Dr. Woodard has empirically evaluated colleges and universities for the Licensure Commission for the D.C. government. His publications include his books Blacks and Political Science and his article "African Americans in the Political Science Profession." He has published in journals such as the Journal of Negro Education and PS: Political Science and Politics. Dr. Woodard is also a member of several professional organizations, including the Southern Political Science Association; the National Conference of Black Political Scientists, of which he is a founding member; and the American Political Science Association, of which he is currently serving as staff associate and director of Minority Affairs.
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Kellina Craig
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PSYCOLOGY
Kellina M. Craig received a MS and Ph.D. in 1991 and 1993 in social psychology from Tulane University. Prior to this, she received an MA from the University of Chicago, and a BA from Wesleyan University in Middletown CT. Professor Craig joined the faculty of Howard University as an associate professor following appointments at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, and California State University in Long Beach, CA. While at the University of Illinois, Dr. Craig held an appointment in the Afro-American Studies and Research program in addition to an appointment in the psychology Department. Her research program includes studies of groups, gender and race stereotyping, solo arrangements, domestic violence and hate crimes, and has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the Center for Human Resource Management at the University of Illinois. Reports of Dr. Craig's research appear in a variety of peer-reviewed journals including though not limited to Law and Human Behavior, Aggressive Behavior, Journal of Black Psychology and Journal of Applied Social psychology. Dr. Craig has presented her work at regional, national, and international meetings, and been invited to speak at an assortment of public and private institutions.
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Jules P. Harrell
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PSYCOLOGY
Dr. Jules P. Harrell, a professor in the Department of Psychology at Howard University, has at Howard University since 1980. He earned his Ph. D. in clinical psychology from the University of Illinois at Champaign in 1976. His major interests include general psychology, personality theories and research, basic psychophysiology, psychology of racism, and personality assessment and psychometrics. He is the author of Manichean Psycholoszy: Racism and the Minds of People of African Descent and has published in such journals as the Journal of Black Psychology and Ethnicity and Disease. Dr. Harrell recently presented a lecture series on psychophysiological studies of racism for the Eastern Psychological Association, and a seminar series on racism, stress, and health at Morgan State University and Morehouse College.
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Debra D. Roberts
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PSYCOLOGY
Dr. Debra D. Roberts is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology, Howard University. She received her Ph.D. in developmental psychology from Temple University, her M.S. in community psychology from Florida A & M University, and her B.S. in psychology/neuroscience from the University of Toronto in Canada. Her research interests include ethnic/cultural identity and the normative development of children of African descent. As one of three African American postdoctoral fellows selected by the University of Maryland, she worked as project coordinator for a government-funded study examining the effects of violence on African American preschoolers. She was recently awarded a Howard University New Faculty Grant to support her current research project that aims to examine cultural identity among African American children and adolescents.
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Lloyd Sloan
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PSYCOLOGY
Dr. Lloyd Sloan is a Graduate Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology at Howard University. He earned the Ph.D. degree in 1972 at the Ohio State University in Social Psychology with minors in statistics and behavior. He took his undergraduate degree in psychology and mathematics at the University of Texas in 1968.
Dr. Sloan is a regular contributor to the research literature in his arenas of scientific interest including: intercultural perceptions of justice and their determinants, group identification (ethnic, cultural, sports) and self and group esteem motives within in-and out-group contexts, Stereotype Threat (intellectual testing failures induced by stereotype concerns) and prevention strategies, stress and behavioral-trait health mediators and attitude change mechanisms in the political domain.
He has recently published Pathways to Success, a volume of research in mental health conducted by NIMH supported researchers. He frequently serves as a reviewer for several NIMH-NIH panels and more broadly as a social research evaluator and educator, most recently completing an extensive period guiding a regional U.S. Army program training mid- career officers in improved communication, group dynamics, problem solving, and avoidance of group dynamics-based failures in decision making. His teaching and research programs generally encompass social cognition, perception and attitudes, self identity and self protective motives, and individual and group hostility. He is currently the principal investigator and program director of two NIMH funded Career Opportunities in Research Education and Training (COR and HHSRE) Programs.
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Dominicus So
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PSYCOLOGY
Dr. Dominicus So, a professor in the Department of Psychology, is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Boston and in 1997, earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Maryland at College Park. A graduate level instructor for psychopathology and abnormal psychology, he has researched on alternative treatments for homeless women and school children. Fluent in spoken Cantonese and Mandarin Chinese, native written comprehension and expression in both the complicated and simplified Chinese characters, Dr. So is an active member in the Asian-American Psychological Association and the Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues.
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Walda Katz-Fishman
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SOCIOLOGY and ANTHROPOLOGY
Dr. Wanda Katz-Fishman, a professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, received her undergraduate degree from Tulane University, and both her M.A. and PhD. in sociology from Wayne State University. Currently the board chair of Project South: Institute for the Elimination of Poverty & Genocide, she has published such works as "The Increasing Significance of Class: Black-Jewish Conflict in the Postindustrial Global Era" African Americans and Jews in the Twentieth Century: Studies in Convergence and Conflict and "Race and Class Coalitions in the South" in Blacks and Latinos in U.S. Cities. Dr. Katz Fishman has presented over 100 papers at various professional sociological meetings, including the American Sociological Association, Society for the Study of Social Problems, Southern Sociological Society, Eastern Sociological Society, D.C. Sociological Society, Association for Humanist Sociology, Midwest Sociological Society, North Central Sociological Society, Association of Black Sociologists, and Sociologists for Women in Society, her presentation focused on issues of race, ethnicity, class, and gender; political economy; and high technology global integration. Dr. Katz-Fishman is a member of Howard University Chapter of American Association of University Professors, Alpha Kappa Delta, and the Graduate Admissions and Scholarship Committee. She has also guest lectured at universities, including Buffalo State University and Coppin State University, on issues of homelessness and housing; changing technology of production and labor force participation; issues of poverty, equality and social justice; and issues of history and multiculturalism.
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Ivor L. Livingston
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SOCIOLOGY and ANTHROPOLOGY
Dr. Ivor Livingston is a professor of the medical sociology and social epidemiology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. He received his B.S. and M.S. in Psychology in 1971 and 1973, and his Ph.D. in Medical Sociology in 1983 from Howard University. In 1985 he received his M.P.H. in the School of Public Health from Harvard University and a postdoctoral certificate in Cardiovascular Epidemiology – School of Hygiene and Public Health from John Hopkins University. Dr. Livingston has been doing work on the relationship between stress and a variety of health and related problems, e.g., hypertension, HIV/AIDS, violence and diabetes. He recently concluded a two-year study examining the correlates of the two main precursors of end-stage renal disease or (ESRD) – hypertension and diabetes, and the health protective behaviors that at-risk African Americans exhibit that are likely to reduce the incidence of these two precursors and, ultimately, ESRD. Dr. Livingston was voted the most outstanding graduate of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Howard University.
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Arvilla Payne-Jackson
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SOCIOLOGY and ANTHROPOLOGY
Dr. Arvilla Payne-Jackson is a professor of linguistics and anthropology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. A graduate of American University, from which she received her B.A. Spanish and M.A. in linguistics, she earned her doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania in sociolinguistics. Dr. Payne-Jackson has published articles in journals such as NAPA Bulletin, Latin American Essays, The Politics of Cultures, and Anthropological Quarterly. She has also authored the books Jamaica’s Ethnomedicine: Its Potential in Jamaica’s Health Care System and Folk Wisdom and Mother Wit: John Lee—An African American Herbal Healer. Dr. Payne-Jackson has worked on technical reports for the 1997-98 White House Office of National Drug Control Policy and federal project reports on the Early Head Start Program, Comprehensive Child Development Program, and the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention. She has also received grants from the Vice President’s Faculty Research Support Grant, US Agency for International Development Research Grants Program for HBCU’s, and the National Park Service. Dr. Payne-Jackson is a Society of Applied Anthropology fellow and a consultant for the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy Anti-Drug Media Campaign, the Edward Maziqe Parent Child Center, and the Youth Services America. Her field work experience focuses on research and evaluation of federal and private programs in the areas of social services, drug abuse/prevention, and child abuse and neglect in communities with high-risk, low-income families; other research areas includes discourse analysis and medical anthropology in diabetic clinics in Jamaica and the United States. Dr. Payne-Jackson’s professional affiliations include the Society of Medical Anthropology, American anthropological Association, Linguistic Society of America, and the Society of Woman Geographers.
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Natural Science
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Marguerite Coomes
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BIOCHEMISTRY and MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Dr. Marguerite Wilton Coomes is a professor in the College of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. She was born in Hertford, England. Dr. Coomes received her Bachelor of Science degree in 1973, summa cum laude, in biology, and her Master of Science degree in 1974 from North Texas State University in Denton, TX. She received her doctorate degree in 1980 in biochemistry from the University of Texas Health Science Center. Dr. Coomes, who speaks German, French and some Dutch, came to Howard in 1989 as an associate professor in the College of Medicine. She is currently working on a 195,000 grant from NASA titled "Caffeine Metabolism: The Pharmacokinetics of Space Flight."
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Matthew George
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BIOCHEMISTRY
Dr. Matthew George, Jr., is a biochemistry graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, and an associate professor of biochemistry at Howard University's College of Medicine. Dr. George's research interest focuses on mitochondrial DNA interactions and evolution, as well as studies on cancer metastasis. His early mitochondrial DNA studies led to the development of the "mitochondrial Eve" hypothesis. He is also featured in the science exhibit "Science in American Life," found in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.
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Richard Pointer
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BIOCHEMISTRY
Dr. Richard H. Pointer was born on the Veale Farm in rural Newton County Georgia to the late Hugh B. and Sarah Pointer. His formal education began in the segregated county public school system followed, by a B.S. from Morehouse College and Sc.M. and Ph.D. degrees from Brown University, 1973 and 1975, respectively. He did postdoctoral studies at Vanderbilt and Harvard Universities. In 1980, he began his professorial career in the Department of Biochemistry at Howard University. He rose through the ranks from assistant professor to professor. Internal grants and the NSF and NIGMS have supported his research. He has trained one M.S. student, three Ph.D. students and one post-doctoral fellow. In the community, he has served on scientific review panels and is secretary for AME Capitol District Church School Council. He is married to the former Rosie Davis and has three children.
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Richard Duffield
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BIOLOGY
Dr. Duffield received his doctorate from the University of Georgia. He received his B.S. from Muskinggum College and his M.S. from the University of Massachusetts. He is a graduate professor in the Department of Biology. Dr. Duffield is the author or co-author of twelve published articles. His research interests can be divided into six areas. Early research publications focused on the chemical ecology of insects and the role of these secretions in their biology. Education: B.S., 1967, Biology, at Muskingum College.
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William Eckberg
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BIOLOGY
William Eckberg, Education: PhD, 1975, Zoology (Developmental Biology), Michigan State University.
Dr. Eckberg’s research in his laboratory concerns mechanisms that control early development. His students and him are examining how sperm initiate the development of the egg, mechanisms that control meiotic cell division and those that control egg and embryo organization and differentiation. Much of this research has centered on embryos of the marine annelid, Chaetopterus.
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Lafayette Frederick
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BIOLOGY
Dr. Lafayette Frederick received his doctorate from Washington State University. A graduate of Tuskegee University and the University of Rhode Island, he is a professor in the Department of Biology. A former professor at Southern University and Atlanta University, Dr. Frederick has held visiting professorships at the University of Georgia and Central State University. He is currently conducting investigations on spore development in fungi, systematics and ecology of the myxomycetes, and the Dutch elm disease. His newest project involves studies on antifungal substances of a recently discovered strain of bacterium. Dr. Frederick has written such works as "The genus Dianema - principal species delimiting characters as revealed by SEM" and has published in the Handbook of the Protoctisita. He is also a member of the American Institute of Biological Sciences, Association of Southeastern Biologists, American Phytopathological Society, and Society of the Sigma Xi.
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Peter Hambright
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CHEMISTRY
Dr. Hambright received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1966. He is currently a professor in inorganic chemistry in the Department of Chemistry. His current research includes, kinetics and mechanisms of metal ion interactions with porphyrins and phthalocyanines; superoxide dismutase models; and gas sensing.
Dr. Hambright has over 150 publications and reviews on the Chemistry of porphyrins and metalloporphyrins.
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Manickam Krishnamurthy
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CHEMISTRY
Dr. Manickam Krishnamurthy was born in India on August 8, 1938. After completion of his master’s degree in chemistry at Annamalai University in 1961, he worked as a scientist for five years at the Bhabha Atomic Research Center, Bombay, and published five refereed articles. In 1966, both he and his wife came to Howard to pursue graduate study. He completed his Ph.D. in 1970 under the mentorship of Dr. Kelso B. Morris. In 1973, after receiving additional training as a postdoctoral instructor at University of California, Irvine, he joined the chemistry faculty at Howard. Since then, he has been a mentor to four doctoral, three master’s and numerous undergraduate students pursuing a variety of programs, such as McNair, AMP, and honors programs. He has published more than thirty refereed articles and taught chemistry to hundreds of students.
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Jesse M. Nicholson
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CHEMISTRY
Dr. Jesse M. Nicholson is a professor and chairman in the Department of Chemistry at Howard University. He has distinguished himself as a teacher and researcher as well as an activist for increasing the number of African-American Ph.D. chemists. Jesse Nicholson received his B.S. degree in chemistry from State University of New York at Stony Brook. Afterward, he earned his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Brandeis University. His outstanding research on a new class of chemicals was published while he was still a graduate student. Having excelled as a researcher, Dr. Nicholson was awarded the National Science Foundation (NSF) Postdoctoral Fellowship to work with the renowned Professor Saul Weinstein at UCLA. His work at UCLA resulted in a landmark paper on the subject of homoaromaticity.
Recently, Dr. Nicholson received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Stony Brook. During the ceremony, one of his professors recalled that "He was the star of the class, a modest young man of quick intellect, unbound curiosity and eagerness to learn." Since coming to Howard in 1966 he has been heavily involved in research and in preparing college students for rewarding careers in chemistry. He has published more than 35 articles in professional journals and served as advisors to 14 doctoral students, 12 master’s students, and numerous undergraduate students. Annually, he serves as a judge at various high school science fairs and for the science portion of the NAACP-sponsored ACTSO. As chairman, he has opened new doors to resources that allow the Department of Chemistry to expand the opportunities given to Howard University students. He is especially proud of the corporate-sponsored Pre-Freshman Program that helps chemistry majors bridge the gap between high school and college life and encourages them to pursue the Ph.D. degree. Dr. Nicholson strongly believes in the potential of our youth and considers it an honor to be able to play such a critical role in their education. Most recently, Dr. Nicholson received a presidential award for his outstanding works as a member.
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Vernon R. Morris
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CHEMISTRY
Dr. Vernon R. Morris is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry and a founding faculty member of the Howard University Graduate Program in Atmospheric Sciences. He also currently serves as Deputy Director of CSTEA. Dr. Morris earned his B.S. degrees in chemistry and mathematics in 1985 from Morehouse College. He earned his Ph.D. degree in atmospheric chemistry, with a minor in physical chemistry, from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1991. Dr. Morris has earned recognition as a NASA Graduate Student Research Program Fellow, a Regents Scholar, a NATO Advanced Study Scholar, a University of California Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow, two University Merit Awards, and as a Class of 1997 Project Kaleidoscope Faculty for the 21st Century. Most recently, Dr. Morris was awarded the prestigious NSF CAREER Award for his research on the photochemistry of carbonaceous aerosols. Dr. Morris is a member of the NASA Tropical Rainforest Measuring Mission (TRMM) Science Team and collaborates with the Solar Occultation and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) scientists at the Smithsonian Astronomical Observatory (SAO) to investigate collision dynamics in solar coronal streamers. Since Dr. Morris has been at Howard University, his research within the Department of Chemistry and at the Center for the Study of Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Atmospheres (CSTEA) has involved air quality, NOx production in lightning-active deep convective systems, reaction mechanisms and dynamics relevant to atmospheric or interstellar chemistry and theoretical calculations on small radical reactions and cluster formation of significance to the interstellar medium and extraterrestrial planets.
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Dharmaray Raghavan
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CHEMISTRY
Dr. Raghavan has published 14 peer-reviewed publications and 10 proceeding articles. His doctoral and post-doctoral work at the University of Illinois Biodegradation of Polymer Composites has brought him in the company of illustrious scientists listed in Who’s Who in Science and Engineering. His research centers on the biological, thermal and chemical treatment of contaminants and polymeric wastes. Presently, the research team is modeling the chemical interaction of soil and contaminant. He has been involved in the development of modified ASTM method for mass balance of polymer degradation. Professor Raghavan through other research projects is constantly proposing and working on research ideas for a greener environment (namely, recyclability of tires, biodegradable polymers). He has on-going research efforts with the Polymer and Building Materials Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Dr. Raghavan served as a mentor for Ms. Sonya Burns, a former McNair student at Howard University who is currently pursuing a graduate degree in chemistry at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.
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Verle Headings
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GENETICS
Dr. Headings grew up on a farm in the Willamette Valley of Oregon and was the first member of his family to undertake higher education. Upon obtaining a baccalaureate degree, he became a research assistant in cardiovascular physiology at the University of Michigan, where he also earned M.S. in human physiology as well as the M.D. For six months during his medical school career he was a research fellow at the Rigs Hospital, University of Copenhagen, supported by the Michigan Heart Association and Rask-Orsted Fondet. Following a medical internship he completed the Ph.D. in human genetics at the University of Michigan. Since 1969, Dr. Headings has been a clinical geneticist and a member of the Howard University faculty. He is director of graduate studies in genetics and human genetics and director of the M.D. / Ph.D. program. His scholarly writing includes more than 100 items and was awarded the 1984 Outstanding Research Award in Health Affairs by Howard University.
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Clement Lutterodt
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MATHEMATICS
Dr. Clement Lutterodt is a professor in the Department of Mathematics. A graduate of the University of Ghana, he received his doctorate from the University of Birmingham in England. A Fulbright-Hays scholar, Dr. Lutterodt began his teaching career at Howard in 1980. A member of the American Mathematics Society and National Association of Mathematics, he has lectured at several universities including the University of Aarhus (Denmark) and John Hopkins University. Dr. Lutterodt also has presented many scientific papers internationally in countries such as Italy, Belgium, Togo, China and South Africa. Dr. Lutterodt is currently researching meromorphic/holomorphic approximation in affined complex algebraic varieties. His other areas of research interest include holomorphic vector bundle approximations over different kinds of " Convex Domains" and value distribution theory in several complex variables. He has published in journals such as Nonlinear Number Methods & Rational Approximation and Approximation Theory VIII. Dr. Lutterodt’s publications include "How About a Career in Mathematics" and "Mathematical Formulae, Tables and Statistical Tables."
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Earl Bloch
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MICROBIOLOGY
Earl Bloch , City College, New York City - B.S. - 1968 - Chemistry
Hunter College, New York City - M.A. - 1971 - Organic Chemistry
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY - Ph.D. - 1978 - Immunology
Dr. Earl Block is an associate professor in the Department of Microbiology at Howard University College of Medicine.
Some of Dr. Block’s most recent publications include Gaither, C5b-7 and C5b-8 Precursors Of The Membrane Attack Complex (C5b-9)Are Effective Killers Of E. Coli J5 During Serum Incubation and Potassium Cyanide Protects Escherichia coli from Complement Killing by the Inhibition of C3 Convertase Activity.
Dr. Block has written funded grants that total over one million dollars. His current venture includes a pending grant for funding of more than two million dollars, the focus will be complement and electrophilic damage in gram-negative bacteria.
Dr. Block was a recipient of two awards in 2000, Excellence in Teaching, Howard University College of Medicine, Student Council and the Appreciation Howard University Pre-academic re-enforcement Program (PARP).
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Agnes Day
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MICROBIOLOGY
Dr. Agnes Adeline Day received her B.S. in education in 1974 and her B.S. in biology from Bethune Cookman College in 1984. She was awarded her Ph.D. in microbiology from Howard University. Her professional experience includes her position as associate professor, Department of Microbiology, Howard University. Her numerous awards include being nominated for the University Excellence Award and the 1997 National Technical Association’s Outstanding Minority Women in Science Engineering Award. In November 1998, Dr. Day was honored as the most distinguished alumnus from her department at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences’ 40th Anniversary Commemorative Gala. Dr. Day teaches Immunology-Medical Microbiology-Infectious Diseases in the College of Medicine, and Medical Microbiology in the College of Dentistry. Her graduate and undergraduate courses include Cell Biology, Advance Molecular Biology, and General Microbiology. Dr. Day is currently working on three research grants from the National Institutes of Health.
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Paulette Furbert-Harris
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MICROBIOLOGY
Dr. Paulette Furbert-Harris is an assistant professor in the Microbiology Department. She received her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. from Howard University. She also conducted a genome-wide search for asthma susceptibility loci in ethnically diverse populations; a collaborative study on the genetics of asthma (CSGA). Acknowledged for her accomplishments, Dr. Furbert-Harris earned the 1997 Kaiser-Permanente Award for Excellence in Teaching and the 1998 AACR-HBCU Faculty Award in Cancer Research. She has served on advisory committees such as the American Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics, Integration Panel Member, USAMRMC Osteoporosis Program NIDDK Workshop on Studies in Minority Populations. She is also a member of the American Association of Immunologists and Sigma Xi.
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James Adkins
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NUTRITIONAL SCIENCE
James Adkins.
(Forthcoming)
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Mamie C. Montague
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NURSING
Dr. Montague. A full-time nurse for 42 years is a proud advocate for nurses, nursing, and for the responsibilities and rights of less fortunate people. She is an associate professor in the Division of Nursing, College of Pharmacy, Nursing and Allied Health Sciences, Howard University, where she has served since 1971. Dr. Montague has held various faculty positions, served as department chairperson and research clinician. Her excellence as an educator is extolled by both students and colleagues. In 1993, Dr. Montague received the District of Columbia Nurses Association nurse of the year award for excellence in education. In 1994, Dr. Montague was selected by the American Nurse’s search for excellence honoree in nursing. In that same year, she was inducted into the American Academy of Nursing, joining a small cadre of distinguished professionals. In 1995, Dr. Montague was chosen a faculty mentor in the university’s junior faculty development and retention program; in September 1995, she was the Division of Nursing nominee for the Howard University Distinguished Teacher - Scholar Award. Dr. Montague Received the merit award for sustained superior performance and service to Howard University in 1996, 1998 and 1999.
Dr. Montague is an alumna of the University of Pennsylvania Postdoctoral Fellowship Program in The Center for Serious Illness, The University of Maryland, The Catholic University of America, Dillard University, the University of Tennessee/Memphis, and the ANA Minority Fellowships Program. She holds certifications in Gerontological Nursing, Medical –Surgical Nursing, and Family Nurse Practitioner.
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Rober Copeland
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PHARMACOLOGY
Dr. Robert L. Copeland is a graduate of American University and earned his doctorate of Pharmacology from Howard University in 1985. Chair of the New Health Science Library/Learning Resource Center Advisory Committee, Dr. Copeland has been awarded grants from the National Cancer Institute researching Helicobacter Pylori and Oxidant Induced Gastric Injury. He has served on many committees, including the Literature Selection Technical Review Committee for the National Library of Medicine, the Scientific Review Panel (SRP) for the National Library of Medicine, TOXNET, Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB), Sigma Xi, and the Scientific Research Society. He is currently the training coordinator for the Minority Neuroscience Fellowship Program. In addition, Dr. Copeland is a participating member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, New York Academy of Sciences, American Medical Informatics Association, Society of Toxicology, and Society for Neuroscience.
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Krishna Kumar
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PHARMACY
Krishna Kumar
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Segun Gbadegusin
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PHILOSOPHY
Dr. Segun Gbadegusin, a professor in the Department of Philosophy, began his teaching career at Howard University in 1992 having formerly served as a professor at Colgate University and Vice Dean of Faculty of Arts at Obafemi Awolowo University. Dr. Gbadegusin received his B.A. from the University of Ife, Nigeria, in 1974 and his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1980. He has edited several books, including Ultimate Reality and meaning: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Philosophy of Understanding, and co-edited Second Order: An African Journal of Philosophy. Other published works include "Ethics, Higher Education and Social Responsibility," with Dr. Joyce Ladner and contributed to such books as "Current Trends in African Philosophy" in Eliot Deutsch and Ron Bontekoe, The Blackwell Companion to world Philosophy, "Kinship of the Dispossessed W.E.B. Du Bois, Nkrumah and the Foundation of Pan-Africanisrn" in Bernard, Grosholz and Stewart, W.E.B. Du Bois on Race and Culture, and Ultimate Reality and Meaning Quest Philosophical Discussions. His areas of specialization consist of Social and Political Philosophy, Ethics, African Philosophy, African Political Thought, and Bioethics. Dr. Gbadegusin is a member of the Washington chapter of Egbe Isokan Yoruba; of which he has also served as president; Egbe Omo Yoruba’s National Association of Yoruba Descendants, USA and Canada; and has served as director of the World Congress of Free Nigerians.
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Charles Verharen
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PHILOSOPHY
Dr. Charles Verharen received his M.A. and Ph.D. in philosophy from Georgetown University. He completed his baccalaureate degree in literature at Seattle University; Dr. Verharen specializes in methodology, philosophy of education, philosophy of culture and Africana philosophy and is fluent in both German and French. His areas of concentration are philosophy, Asian philosophy and comparative philosophy. Dr. Verharen has been awarded grants from the Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children, General Telephone and Electronics (GTE), and the Andrew Mellow Foundation. His publications include the book, Rationality in Philosophy and Science and numerous articles, including as "An Ethics of Intimacy: Race and Moral Obligation" and "What They Gain on Earth by Being Black: Du Bois and the Future of African American Education." Dr. Verharen’s articles have been published in the Washington Post, Washington Times, Journal of Black Studies, Journal of Negro Education, and Howard University Journal of Philosophy. Dr. Verharen’s current research includes a study of philosophy and culture based in part on discussions with philosophy department members in several universities, including schools in Hong Kong, Beijing, Singapore, Capetown, and Nairobi. Dr. Verharen is a former chair of the Department of Philosophy, and the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association; he is also a board member of the Anacostia Watershed Society.
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Humanities
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Melbourne Cummings
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COMMUNICATIONS
Dr. Melbourne Cummings, a professor in and Department chair of Human Communications Studies in the School of Communications. A graduate of Southern University, she received her M.A. from North Carolina Central University and Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Cummings research experience is mostly with qualitative and historical/ critical methodologies, with her area of research focusing on rhetoric (African American Discourse). She has published numerous articles and presented papers dealing with African Americans in Communications, including "The Changing Image of the Black Family on Television" and "Developing Strategies that Promote Early Identification and Recruitment of Persons of Color to Speech Communication", in journals such as The Journal of Popular Culture and for conferences such as the Speech Communication Association. Dr. Cummings is also a member of the African Studies Association and National Communication Association.
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Ann Maydan Nicotera
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COMMUNICATIONS
Dr. Anne Nicotera (Ph.D., Ohio University, 1990) is an associate professor in the Department of Human Communication Studies at Howard University. She teaches graduate courses in the organizational communication specialty, including organizational communication, interpersonal communication, negotiation and conflict resolution, current issues in organizational communication, and organizational communication research methods. She is very active in professional associations and serves on the editorial boards for several scholarly journals. She has published her research in such journals as Communication Reports, Communication Research Reports, Human Communication Research, Journal of Applied Communication Research, Management Communication Quarterly, and Western Journal of Communication. She has also published three books and numerous book chapters. Her research focuses on conflict and communication problems in both organizational and relational contexts. Her research interests also include gender and intercultural communication.
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Ovetta Harris
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COMMUNICATIONS
Dr. Harris has worked clinically for seven years exclusively in Alternative Augmentative Communication (AAC) Prior to entering her doctoral program. AAC and literacy acquisition was the main focus of her doctoral studies while at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Harris is extremely knowledgeable in the area of AAC and has published articles, conducted several AAC research studies, and presently serves as a National lecturer for American Speech-Language-Hearing Association on the topic of culturally diverse AAC users. Harris has served on the executive board of Technology Assistance program for the State of Rhode Island and has continued to consult with schools, children’s hospitals and university clinics with regards to AAC systems and technology. Harris is an African American scholar with a background in multicultural issues in speech-language pathology and has the Certificate of Clinical Competence from the American Speech Language Hearing Association. Harris has assisted on previous research projects focusing on multiculturalism, and has written several articles on cultural diversity in education. She has had over four years of post-doctoral research experience. Dr. Harris was recently a post-doctoral fellow at Purdue University. She is presently working as an assistant professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Howard University. Dr. Harris’ primary duties at Howard and Purdue were to conduct research in cultural language issues. As an African American scholar, she is particularly interested in research concerning cultural diversity and brings a working knowledge of the topic to her research projects. Currently serving on three doctoral committees at Howard, Dr. Harris has published professional articles, made conference presentations and given lectures on the cultural context of literacy. One of her current projects is Dialectal Applications of Minspeak. This project will investigate strategies for incorporation dialect into a minspeak framework.
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Rodney D. Green
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ECONOMICS
Rodney D. Green has served as professor of urban economics at Howard University for 21 years. He has led many important urban studies evaluating the impact of energy policy on African American households, studying the development and social impacts of the new Metrorail system in Washington D.C., and conducting path breaking work in the areas of poverty, discrimination, and racism. He has authored four books and over 40 journal articles and often testifies at public hearings on important urban policy issues. Dr. Green is an expert statistician, as evidenced in three of his scholarly book projects, entitled Racial Segregation in U.S. Public Housing, 1932-1992 (NY: Praeger Publishers, 1998 [in press]); Rail Transit Station Area Development: Small Area Modeling in Washington, DC. (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe Publishers, 1993); and Forecasting with Computer Models: Energy, Population, and Econometric Forecasting (NY: Praeger Publisher, 1985). These projects required a wide range of statistical techniques, ranging from elementary Chi-Square and t test comparative analyses, to the use of dissimilarity indices, to the use of sophisticated 2SLS and logic regression analysis and multi-equation modeling simulation systems. Dr. Green currently serves as Director of the Center for Urban Progress, a major initiative by Howard University to strengthen its urban research agenda, and also serves as Director of the Collaborative Core Unit in Labor, Race, and Political Economy that fosters interdisciplinary social science research in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Green received his undergraduate degree in politics and economics from Yale University (Magna cum Laude) in 1970, and, after a tour of duty in the U.S. Army, went on to complete his M.A. and Ph.D. (1980) degrees in economics at the American University.
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Charles Betsey
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ECONOMICS
Dr. Betsey is a Graduate Professor in the Department of Economics at Howard University. He attended the University of Michigan, where he received his BA and PhD degrees in economics. Dr. Betsey’s current research interests include consumption behavior and wealth accumulation of African-Americans, and the analysis of pay and compensation policies in various labor markets, including the markets for teleworkers and college faculty. His recent professional activities include presentation at a conference sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor on teleworkers in the 21st century; a presentation at the Southern Economic Association conference on the correlates of good credit standing among African-Americans; and a presentation at the Allied Social Science Associations annual conference on racial discrimination in criminal sentencing and its implications for reparations. Dr. Betsey is currently a member of the Board of Editorial Advisors of the Review of Black Political Economy. From 1991-92, he served as president of the National Economic Association.
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Emily Blank
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ECONOMICS
Dr. Emily Blank has been an associate professor in Howard’s Department of Economics since 1985. She graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1975 and from the London School of Economics in 1982; She received her doctorate from Boston College. Once a visiting scholar for the United State Department of Agriculture in economic research service, she has received several grants, including a grant from the U.S. Department of Labor "Emotional Health and Pension Savings" in 1997. Dr. Blank has published numerous articles and presented papers such as "Layoffs and Their Impact on Wage Rates and Hours of Work and "Work Effort of Economics Faculty" Her professional experience include, chairing the College Admissions Committee, 1994-1996, and Chair Library and Invited Speakers Committee, 1994-1995, and 1997-1998.
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Constance Ellison
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EDUCATION
Constance M. Ellison teacher, scholar, researcher, educational consultant, and student advocate, earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Boston University and a Doctorate of Philosophy degree in Development Psychology from Howard University. She was a postdoctoral fellow in the Applied Developmental Psychology program at the University of Maryland. Dr. Ellison is currently an Associate Professor of Educational Psychology and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Human Development and Psychoeducational Studies in the School of Education. She also serves as Project Director at the Center for the Education of Students Placed at Risk (CRESPAR) at Howard University.
Dr. Ellison has published several refereed articles and book chapters on educational issues pertaining to African American children. Currently she is co-authoring a book titled Educational Excellence and Equity in the African American Community. As Principal Investigator at the Center for Research on the Education of Students Placed at Risk (CRESPAR), Dr. Ellison research is focused on cognition and learning with specific emphasis on socio-psychological relationships, forms of instruction, routines, disciplinary procedures, and language usage to inform classroom achievement and educational reform relative to African American children from low-income backgrounds.
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Gerunda Hughes
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EDUCATION
Dr. Hughes is an assistant professor of Curriculum and Instruction in the School of Education, where she teaches mathematics methods courses for elementary and secondary pre-service teachers. Dr. Hughes is also acting principal investigator (1998) and researcher at the Center for Research on the Education of Students Placed At Risk (CRESPAR), which was funded by the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI) for the period 1994-1999. She received her B.S. in mathematics from the University of Rhode Island in 1972; the M.A. in mathematics from the University of Maryland, College Park in, 1974; and the Ph.D. in educational psychology from Howard University in 1991. Dr. Hughes has served as project director of the WBHR Alliance for Minority Participation Teacher Preparation (AMP-TP) Program (1996-98), funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF); as research/evaluation consultant for the Engineering Coalition of Schools for Excellence and Leadership (ECSEL) program and the Calculus Reform Project at Howard University; as co-principal investigator on two small-scaled Howard University-funded projects, respectively entitled "Transforming Professors into Teachers" and "Effective Teacher Preparation: How Are We Doing?" Dr. Hughes is a member of several professional organizations, including the American Education Research Association (AERA), the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME), and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM). She also serves on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Validation Studies (NVS) panel as a mathematics and test/item bias consultant. The NVS is coordinated by the American Institutes for Research (AIR) and reports to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES).
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Marilyn Irving
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EDUCATION
Dr. Marilyn Irving received her B.A. in biology and chemistry from Grambling State University in 1974. She received her M.S. in Secondary Science Education in 1976 and doctorate of Higher Education Administration in 1987, from Texas Southern University. Dr. Irving is currently teaching Curriculum and Instruction in the School of Education. The focus of her research is to create effective professional development models in science to upgrade content knowledge and pedagogical skills of preservice and in-service teachers to improve science education in grades K-12. Dr. Irving’s research is based upon twelve years of study and models; 2) developing teacher leaders; and 3) integrating theory and practice in science education via content and pedagogy. Her contribution to teaching, research and service in particular has gained recognition by students (Blue Key Honorary Award), School of Education, Department of Curriculum and Instruction (Distinguished Teaching and Service Awards). Dr. Irving is currently the editor of the Journal of the Research Association of Minority Professors.
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Hakim Rashid
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EDUCATION
Hakim Rashid
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James Williams
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EDUCATION
In 1970, James Williams entered the Ph.D. program in Educational Psychology, Univ. of Iowa and graduated in 1974. Spent the summer of 1973 teaching at N.C.Central Univ. and was employed as a faculty member at Howard U. beginning Aug. 1973.
In September 1973, he was appointed Director of Admission-H.U. He was appointed Assoc. Dean, School. of Ed. in Jan. 1975 and remained in position until July 1976 when he returned to full time teaching.
He always had an interest establishing that no difference exist between abilities of blacks and whites when minorities are given the opportunity to be equally exposed. In 1978, he established a model graduate program for preparing teachers(beginning in 1979) to receive either a Masters or Advanced Certificate degree in Ed.Psy./Gifted and a model summer enrichment program for gifted students(from across the nation) grades 1-11 that were taught by those teachers after designing a curriculum for the subject to be taught in the summer program. He has published articles on the gifted, vocational interest and counseling minority students.
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Paul Fallon
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ENGLISH
Dr. Fallon received his doctorate in Linguistics from Ohio State University in 1998. He is a professor in the Department of English. His areas of interest include phonology, historical linguistics, and sociolinguistics. Dr. Fallon is currently working on a linguistic description of Bilin, a Cushitic language spoken in Eritrea, and focusing on its sound patterns and on its complex morphology. He will also be developing grammatical sketches and phonetic studies of other underdescribed African languages. In addition to further developing purely empirical descriptions of understudied languages, his research aims to explore and develop both Optimality Theory, a linguistic theory of constraint interaction, and feature geometry, a theory of sound representation. Dr. Fallon recently presented a paper in which the phonological patterning of ejectives (glottalic stop sounds) could be explained by cross-linguistic reranking of constraints in a factorial typology. In addition, he is working on publishing the proceedings of a conference that was organized on the Gullah language. Dr. Fallon’s was awarded the Phi Beta Kappa and the Phi Kappa Phi award. He has received the following grants from Howard University: the New Faculty Research Award, the Faculty Sponsored Research Program award, and two Funds for Academic Excellence awards.
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Thorelle Tsomando
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ENGLISH
Thorelle Tsomando, Associate Professor. Ph.D., SUNY-Buffalo. Literary criticism, the novel and narratology, Shakespeare, nineteenth-century British literature.
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Rosemarie Garland Thomson
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ENGLISH
Dr. Rosemarie Thomson is associate professor in the English Department. She received her B.A. and M.A. from the University of Nevada; she received her doctorate of English from Brandeis University in 1993. Her major fields of concentration are 19th- and 20th-century American fiction, feminist theory, and African-American literature. Dr. Thomson has merited several awards, including the 1998-99 Howard University Academic Fund for Excellence Grant; at Columbia University, the 1998 NEH Summer Institute on Death in America; the 1998 Howard University Merit Award; and the Howard University Faculty Research Fellowship in the Social Sciences, Humanities, and Education, 1995-1997. She is the author of the books, Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature and Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body and has published articles in journals such as the Michigan Quarterly Review, Disability Studies," Disability Studies Quarterly, American Literature, and Feminist Studies. As an English professor, she has taught the following courses: Literary Criticism, Survey of American Literature, Women in Literature, American Realism and Naturalism, Double Consciousness in American Fiction, Advanced Essay Writing for Majors, and Graduate Seminar on the Body in Culture. Dr. Thomson has presented a series of lectures for the Southeast Women's Studies Conference, Brown University, and Harvard University Center for Cultural and Literary Studies, Sciences and Culture.
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Sylvan Alleyne
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HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
Dr. Sylvan Alleyne obtained her Master’s of Social Work from Catholic University in 1987 and her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of the West Indies in 1987. Currently, Dr. Alleyne is a professor and a coordinator for the Human Development Program at Howard University. She has held these positions for almost 10 years. Dr. Alleyne’s current area of interest and specialization is Human Development and social aspects of chronic illness. Her research includes reduction of infant mortality, identification of predisposing factors in infant mortality, family research in chronic illnesses, and parenting. Some of Dr. Alleyne’s major accomplishments are 26 publications in referred journals, 2 book reviews, and 7 chapters in books and monograph numerous conference presentations, running anger management workshops. Dr. Alleyne has chaired and advised on the committees of numerous Master’s Theses and Ph.D. dissertations. In 1999-2000, Dr. Alleyne was the academic advisor for one Master’s and one Ph.D. Thesis, and was a member on the committee for four Master’s and six Ph.D.’s. On May 1, 2000, Dr. Alleyne received a Human Development Award from the School of Education at Howard University in recognition of Exceptional Research and Scholarship for the Academic Year 1999-2000. Also, Dr. Alleyne has received several student awards and a Black Parenting Award.
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Velma LaPoint
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HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
Dr. LaPoint is Associate Professor, Department of Human Development and Psychoeducational Studies, School of Education, Howard University and teaches courses in child development, family life, and policies and programs that promote human development. Dr. LaPoint is involved in three research areas: 1) Principal Investigator of the Secondary School Project, Center for Research on the Education of Students Placed at Risk (CRESPAR), Howard University funded by the Office of Education Research Improvement, U.S. Department of Education; 2) Study Group on Corporate and Industry Influences on Children’s Development: Research, Policy, Practice and Advocacy supported by Howard’s University’s Fund for Academic Excellence, 1998-1999, with Dr. Priscilla Hambrick-Dixon, Hunter College, City University of New York; and 3) the Youth Dress and Behavior Project supported by Howard University’s Faculty Research Fund, 1995-1996 with Dr. Sylvan I. Alleyne, Department of Human Development and Psychoeducational Studies, Howard University. Dr. LaPoint earned a B.S. degree in education/sociology from the University of Hartford and MA/PhD degrees in counseling from Michigan State University. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship in child development from the National Institute of Mental Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Service and two other post-doctoral fellowships sponsored by the Society for Research in Child Development: 1) Study Group on the Affective and Social Development of Black Children at Emory University and 2) Summer Institute of Child Development Research and Public Policy at Cornell University. Dr. LaPoint is a member of several national organizations such as the American Psychological Association, American Education Research Association, Society for Research in Child Development, and the Black Caucus of SRCD. She has given presentations at local, national and international conferences and has written and/or been quoted in journal articles, book chapters, and popular press articles.
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Engineering
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Ramesh Chawia
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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
Dr. Chawla has twenty-five years of experience in teaching, research and industrial consulting in the fields of chemical and environmental engineering. He has authored or co-authored over sixty technical papers on topics covering the biological treatment of hazardous wastes, surfactant assisted bioavailability enhancement, combustion and incineration chemistry and kinetics, kinetic modeling, measurement and monitoring of low level organic pollutants in air and water, and hazardous waste treatment in aqueous and soil systems. Over the last ten years, Dr. Chawla has been principal investigator for about 20 different environmental research and development grants or contracts funded by EPA, NSF, DOE, DOD, NRC, and private industries. He has supervised and/or served on thesis committees of over 25 graduate students in chemical and environmental engineering. Dr. Chawla serves on many regional and national technical and advisory committees and is a technical reviewer for professional journals, EPA, and NSF. Dr. Chawla has developed courses and other teaching aids for environmental and engineering education; he has also conducted teaching workshops and taught special courses at the high school and practicing engineers levels. He has received many university and national awards and commendations for these efforts.
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Dan-Nien Fan
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MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
Dan-Nien Fan
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Social Science
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Elizabeth Clark-Lewis
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HISTORY
Elizabeth Clark-Lewis, Assoicate Professor, Ph.D. University of Maryland, College Park.A historian of the United States, Professor Clark-Lewis has taught courses on African-American women, women in the United States, African-American history, history of the District of Columbia, and the history of African-Americans in Pennsylvania. As the director of the department’s Public History program, she also has offered courses on museums and archives, oral history, historic preservation and a seminar in the field. In conjunction she has taught students about genealogical research, family history and genealogy, and courses on related themes. She has published books and articles on these subjects, among them First Freed: Emancipation in the District of Columbia (1998) and Living In, Living Out: African American Domestics in Washington, DC (1994, paperback 1996), winner of the Letitia Brown Prize in Women’s History. Over a dozen articles on women, race, household workers, and related subjects have appeared in such journals as Washington History, Truth: Journal of the Association of Black Women, the National Genealogical Society Quarterly, and the Afro-American Genealogical Society Newsletter, and as chapters in books. Professor Clark-Lewis also was the project director and producer for the PBS documentary film, "Freedom Bags," which won the Oscar Micheaux Award. Her work has been supported by numerous research grants from the National Park Service, the National Endowment for the Arts, D C Arts and Humanities Council, several private and corporate foundations, the state of Virginia, WETA Channel 26 [PBS], and Howard University. Along with a postdoctoral research fellowship from the Smithsonian Institution, Professor Clark-Lewis has gained recognition through many awards, including the Best Documentary award from the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame, a Gold Apple award from the National Education Association, a First Place at the American Film and Video Festival as well as graduate research awards from the Ford Foundation and the Shomacher Foundation.
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Edna Greene Medford
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HISTORY
Dr. Edna Greene Medford is an associate professor in the Department of History at Howard University. She teaches graduate courses in Comparative Slavery, Colonial America, and Jacksonian America, as well as survey courses in United States History and the African Diaspora. Believing that an appreciation for history must extend beyond the halls of the academy, Dr. Medford lectures widely to community-based organizations and professional groups. She serves as historian to the Charles City County (VA) Historical Society, is a member of the Board of Advisors of the Lincoln Forum, and is affiliated with several other professional organizations in her field. Dr. Medford has worked periodically with C-SPAN in their broadcast of historical programs and has been interviewed for several segments of the television program "Civil War Journal." She has served as faculty advisor for the last eight years of the award-winning chapter of the history honor society. Currently, Dr. Medford serves as associate director for History of the African Burial Ground Project: In this role she coordinates the research of a team of historians charged with studying the population of African New Yorkers who were interred in the eighteenth-century cemetery excavated in 1991 in lower Manhattan. Most of Dr. Medford’s publications address the issue of life and labor among African Americans in Tidewater Virginia in the nineteenth century or concerns the relationship between Abraham Lincoln and African-Americans.
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Joseph P. Reidy
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HISTORY
Joseph P. Reidy earned his Ph.D. in history from Northern Illinois University in 1982. From 1977 to 1984, he was an editor with the Freedmen and Southern Society Project at the University of Maryland, College Park. During that time he helped produce Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867 (4 vols, 1982-1993); Free At Last: A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom, and the Civil War (1992); and Slaves No More: Three Essays on Emancipation and the Civil War (1992). He has also written From Slavery to Agrarian Capitalism in the Cotton Plantation South: Central Georgia, 1800-1880 (1992), and numerous articles and chapters in collected works. Since 1984 he has taught at Howard University, specializing in nineteenth-century United States history. At present, he is a graduate professor of history and the associate dean of the Graduate School. He also directs the African American Sailors Research Project, an investigation into the experience of black sailors in the U.S. Navy during the Civil War.
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Emory Tolbert
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HISTORY
Emory Tolbert, Ph.D.University of California, Los Angeles. Professor Tolbert teaches courses on United States history, the African Diaspora , and oral history. He was the Senior Editor, of the Marcus Garvey and UNIA Papers, Volumes One through Four (1984-1986). His books include Perspectives on the African Diaspora, Volumes One and Two (1998-1999), Race and Culture in America (1987). and The UNIA and Black Los Angeles: Ideology and Community in the American Garvey Movement (1980), and he has published numerous articles on these and related subjects His primary areas of research interest are the African Diaspora, the Garvey Movement and African Americans in the American West.
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John Walton Cotman
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POLITICAL SCIENCE
Dr. John Walton Cotman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Howard University. His specializations are Comparative Politics and International Relations, with a regional focus on the Caribbean. His current research concerns regional integration efforts in the Caribbean involving Cuba and the English-speaking nations of the Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM).
A native of Springfield, Massachusetts, Dr. Cotman received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Boston University in 1992. His graduate training included study at Yale University, where he was a member of the Southern Africa Research Program. Cotman received a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
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Donn Davis
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POLITICAL SCIENCE
Donn Davis
1965 to 1975 - University of California, Berkeley: B.A., M.A., Ph.D., in Political Science. Concentrations: American Government and Politics; Comparative Politics (Africa and Asia); International Relations (World Order Studies); and African-American Politics.
1973 to 1975 - Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut: Post-doctoral research: Psychology and Politics. Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut: M.S. L. Concentrations: International Human Rights and Constitutional Law.
Sumner, 1988 - Oxford University, Oxford, England: Diploma, Institute on International and Comparative Law: Contracts and Criminal Law Tutorials.
Since 1996, Dr. Davis serves as associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Howard University. He also serves as faculty advisor for the Pre-Law Program at Howard University and a member of the Judiciary Committee in the College of Arts and Sciences at Howard University. Dr. Davis serves as Adjunct Professorial Lecturer at George Washington University in Washington, DC.
Dr. Davis’ area of competencies and teaching fields are American Government and Politics; Comparative Politics (Africa and Asia); International Relations (World Order Studies); Law and Society; African-American Politics; Public Policy Formulation; Legislative Process, and Congress and Presidential Policymaking.
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Maurice Woodward
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POLITICAL SCIENCE
Dr. Maurice C. Woodard received his doctorate from the University of Kansas in 1969, having completed his undergraduate degree at Prairie View University. As graduate program director of the Department of Political Science, Dr. Woodard has empirically evaluated colleges and universities for the Licensure Commission for the D.C. government. His publications include his books Blacks and Political Science and his article "African Americans in the Political Science Profession." He has published in journals such as the Journal of Negro Education and PS: Political Science and Politics. Dr. Woodard is also a member of several professional organizations, including the Southern Political Science Association; the National Conference of Black Political Scientists, of which he is a founding member; and the American Political Science Association, of which he is currently serving as staff associate and director of Minority Affairs.
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Kellina Craig
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PSYCOLOGY
Kellina M. Craig received a MS and Ph.D. in 1991 and 1993 in social psychology from Tulane University. Prior to this, she received an MA from the University of Chicago, and a BA from Wesleyan University in Middletown CT. Professor Craig joined the faculty of Howard University as an associate professor following appointments at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, and California State University in Long Beach, CA. While at the University of Illinois, Dr. Craig held an appointment in the Afro-American Studies and Research program in addition to an appointment in the psychology Department. Her research program includes studies of groups, gender and race stereotyping, solo arrangements, domestic violence and hate crimes, and has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the Center for Human Resource Management at the University of Illinois. Reports of Dr. Craig's research appear in a variety of peer-reviewed journals including though not limited to Law and Human Behavior, Aggressive Behavior, Journal of Black Psychology and Journal of Applied Social psychology. Dr. Craig has presented her work at regional, national, and international meetings, and been invited to speak at an assortment of public and private institutions.
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Jules P. Harrell
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PSYCOLOGY
Dr. Jules P. Harrell, a professor in the Department of Psychology at Howard University, has at Howard University since 1980. He earned his Ph. D. in clinical psychology from the University of Illinois at Champaign in 1976. His major interests include general psychology, personality theories and research, basic psychophysiology, psychology of racism, and personality assessment and psychometrics. He is the author of Manichean Psycholoszy: Racism and the Minds of People of African Descent and has published in such journals as the Journal of Black Psychology and Ethnicity and Disease. Dr. Harrell recently presented a lecture series on psychophysiological studies of racism for the Eastern Psychological Association, and a seminar series on racism, stress, and health at Morgan State University and Morehouse College.
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Debra D. Roberts
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PSYCOLOGY
Dr. Debra D. Roberts is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology, Howard University. She received her Ph.D. in developmental psychology from Temple University, her M.S. in community psychology from Florida A & M University, and her B.S. in psychology/neuroscience from the University of Toronto in Canada. Her research interests include ethnic/cultural identity and the normative development of children of African descent. As one of three African American postdoctoral fellows selected by the University of Maryland, she worked as project coordinator for a government-funded study examining the effects of violence on African American preschoolers. She was recently awarded a Howard University New Faculty Grant to support her current research project that aims to examine cultural identity among African American children and adolescents.
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Lloyd Sloan
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PSYCOLOGY
Dr. Lloyd Sloan is a Graduate Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology at Howard University. He earned the Ph.D. degree in 1972 at the Ohio State University in Social Psychology with minors in statistics and behavior. He took his undergraduate degree in psychology and mathematics at the University of Texas in 1968.
Dr. Sloan is a regular contributor to the research literature in his arenas of scientific interest including: intercultural perceptions of justice and their determinants, group identification (ethnic, cultural, sports) and self and group esteem motives within in-and out-group contexts, Stereotype Threat (intellectual testing failures induced by stereotype concerns) and prevention strategies, stress and behavioral-trait health mediators and attitude change mechanisms in the political domain.
He has recently published Pathways to Success, a volume of research in mental health conducted by NIMH supported researchers. He frequently serves as a reviewer for several NIMH-NIH panels and more broadly as a social research evaluator and educator, most recently completing an extensive period guiding a regional U.S. Army program training mid- career officers in improved communication, group dynamics, problem solving, and avoidance of group dynamics-based failures in decision making. His teaching and research programs generally encompass social cognition, perception and attitudes, self identity and self protective motives, and individual and group hostility. He is currently the principal investigator and program director of two NIMH funded Career Opportunities in Research Education and Training (COR and HHSRE) Programs.
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Dominicus So
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PSYCOLOGY
Dr. Dominicus So, a professor in the Department of Psychology, is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Boston and in 1997, earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Maryland at College Park. A graduate level instructor for psychopathology and abnormal psychology, he has researched on alternative treatments for homeless women and school children. Fluent in spoken Cantonese and Mandarin Chinese, native written comprehension and expression in both the complicated and simplified Chinese characters, Dr. So is an active member in the Asian-American Psychological Association and the Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues.
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Walda Katz-Fishman
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SOCIOLOGY and ANTHROPOLOGY
Dr. Wanda Katz-Fishman, a professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, received her undergraduate degree from Tulane University, and both her M.A. and PhD. in sociology from Wayne State University. Currently the board chair of Project South: Institute for the Elimination of Poverty & Genocide, she has published such works as "The Increasing Significance of Class: Black-Jewish Conflict in the Postindustrial Global Era" African Americans and Jews in the Twentieth Century: Studies in Convergence and Conflict and "Race and Class Coalitions in the South" in Blacks and Latinos in U.S. Cities. Dr. Katz Fishman has presented over 100 papers at various professional sociological meetings, including the American Sociological Association, Society for the Study of Social Problems, Southern Sociological Society, Eastern Sociological Society, D.C. Sociological Society, Association for Humanist Sociology, Midwest Sociological Society, North Central Sociological Society, Association of Black Sociologists, and Sociologists for Women in Society, her presentation focused on issues of race, ethnicity, class, and gender; political economy; and high technology global integration. Dr. Katz-Fishman is a member of Howard University Chapter of American Association of University Professors, Alpha Kappa Delta, and the Graduate Admissions and Scholarship Committee. She has also guest lectured at universities, including Buffalo State University and Coppin State University, on issues of homelessness and housing; changing technology of production and labor force participation; issues of poverty, equality and social justice; and issues of history and multiculturalism.
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Ivor L. Livingston
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SOCIOLOGY and ANTHROPOLOGY
Dr. Ivor Livingston is a professor of the medical sociology and social epidemiology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. He received his B.S. and M.S. in Psychology in 1971 and 1973, and his Ph.D. in Medical Sociology in 1983 from Howard University. In 1985 he received his M.P.H. in the School of Public Health from Harvard University and a postdoctoral certificate in Cardiovascular Epidemiology – School of Hygiene and Public Health from John Hopkins University. Dr. Livingston has been doing work on the relationship between stress and a variety of health and related problems, e.g., hypertension, HIV/AIDS, violence and diabetes. He recently concluded a two-year study examining the correlates of the two main precursors of end-stage renal disease or (ESRD) – hypertension and diabetes, and the health protective behaviors that at-risk African Americans exhibit that are likely to reduce the incidence of these two precursors and, ultimately, ESRD. Dr. Livingston was voted the most outstanding graduate of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Howard University.
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Arvilla Payne-Jackson
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SOCIOLOGY and ANTHROPOLOGY
Dr. Arvilla Payne-Jackson is a professor of linguistics and anthropology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. A graduate of American University, from which she received her B.A. Spanish and M.A. in linguistics, she earned her doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania in sociolinguistics. Dr. Payne-Jackson has published articles in journals such as NAPA Bulletin, Latin American Essays, The Politics of Cultures, and Anthropological Quarterly. She has also authored the books Jamaica’s Ethnomedicine: Its Potential in Jamaica’s Health Care System and Folk Wisdom and Mother Wit: John Lee—An African American Herbal Healer. Dr. Payne-Jackson has worked on technical reports for the 1997-98 White House Office of National Drug Control Policy and federal project reports on the Early Head Start Program, Comprehensive Child Development Program, and the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention. She has also received grants from the Vice President’s Faculty Research Support Grant, US Agency for International Development Research Grants Program for HBCU’s, and the National Park Service. Dr. Payne-Jackson is a Society of Applied Anthropology fellow and a consultant for the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy Anti-Drug Media Campaign, the Edward Maziqe Parent Child Center, and the Youth Services America. Her field work experience focuses on research and evaluation of federal and private programs in the areas of social services, drug abuse/prevention, and child abuse and neglect in communities with high-risk, low-income families; other research areas includes discourse analysis and medical anthropology in diabetic clinics in Jamaica and the United States. Dr. Payne-Jackson’s professional affiliations include the Society of Medical Anthropology, American anthropological Association, Linguistic Society of America, and the Society of Woman Geographers.
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Natural Science
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Marguerite Coomes
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BIOCHEMISTRY and MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Dr. Marguerite Wilton Coomes is a professor in the College of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. She was born in Hertford, England. Dr. Coomes received her Bachelor of Science degree in 1973, summa cum laude, in biology, and her Master of Science degree in 1974 from North Texas State University in Denton, TX. She received her doctorate degree in 1980 in biochemistry from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas . Dr. Coomes, who speaks German, French and some Dutch, came to Howard in 1989 as an associate professor in the College of Medicine. She is currently working on a 195,000 grant from NASA titled "Caffeine Metabolism: The Pharmacokinetics of Space Flight."
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Matthew George
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BIOCHEMISTRY
Dr. Matthew George, Jr., is a biochemistry graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, and an associate professor of biochemistry at Howard University's College of Medicine. Dr. George's research interest focuses on mitochondrial DNA interactions and evolution, as well as studies on cancer metastasis. His early mitochondrial DNA studies led to the development of the "mitochondrial Eve" hypothesis. He is also featured in the science exhibit "Science in American Life," found in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.
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Richard Pointer
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BIOCHEMISTRY
Dr. Richard H. Pointer was born on the Veale Farm in rural Newton County Georgia to the late Hugh B. and Sarah Pointer. His formal education began in the segregated county public school system followed, by a B.S. from Morehouse College and Sc.M. and Ph.D. degrees from Brown University, 1973 and 1975, respectively. He did postdoctoral studies at Vanderbilt and Harvard Universities. In 1980, he began his professorial career in the Department of Biochemistry at Howard University. He rose through the ranks from assistant professor to professor. Internal grants and the NSF and NIGMS have supported his research. He has trained one M.S. student, three Ph.D. students and one post-doctoral fellow. In the community, he has served on scientific review panels and is secretary for AME Capitol District Church School Council. He is married to the former Rosie Davis and has three children.
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Richard Duffield
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BIOLOGY
Dr. Duffield received his doctorate from the University of Georgia. He received his B.S. from Muskinggum College and his M.S. from the University of Massachusetts. He is a graduate professor in the Department of Biology. Dr. Duffield is the author or co-author of twelve published articles. His research interests can be divided into six areas. Early research publications focused on the chemical ecology of insects and the role of these secretions in their biology. Education: B.S., 1967, Biology, at Muskingum College.
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William Eckberg
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BIOLOGY
William Eckberg, Education: PhD, 1975, Zoology (Developmental Biology), Michigan State University.
Dr. Eckberg’s research in his laboratory concerns mechanisms that control early development. His students and him are examining how sperm initiate the development of the egg, mechanisms that control meiotic cell division and those that control egg and embryo organization and differentiation. Much of this research has centered on embryos of the marine annelid, Chaetopterus.
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Lafayette Frederick
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BIOLOGY
Dr. Lafayette Frederick received his doctorate from Washington State University. A graduate of Tuskegee University and the University of Rhode Island, he is a professor in the Department of Biology. A former professor at Southern University and Atlanta University, Dr. Frederick has held visiting professorships at the University of Georgia and Central State University. He is currently conducting investigations on spore development in fungi, systematics and ecology of the myxomycetes, and the Dutch elm disease. His newest project involves studies on antifungal substances of a recently discovered strain of bacterium. Dr. Frederick has written such works as "The genus Dianema - principal species delimiting characters as revealed by SEM" and has published in the Handbook of the Protoctisita. He is also a member of the American Institute of Biological Sciences, Association of Southeastern Biologists, American Phytopathological Society, and Society of the Sigma Xi.
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Peter Hambright
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CHEMISTRY
Dr. Hambright received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1966. He is currently a professor in inorganic chemistry in the Department of Chemistry. His current research includes, kinetics and mechanisms of metal ion interactions with porphyrins and phthalocyanines; superoxide dismutase models; and gas sensing.
Dr. Hambright has over 150 publications and reviews on the Chemistry of porphyrins and metalloporphyrins.
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Manickam Krishnamurthy
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CHEMISTRY
Dr. Manickam Krishnamurthy was born in India on August 8, 1938. After completion of his master’s degree in chemistry at Annamalai University in 1961, he worked as a scientist for five years at the Bhabha Atomic Research Center, Bombay, and published five refereed articles. In 1966, both he and his wife came to Howard to pursue graduate study. He completed his Ph.D. in 1970 under the mentorship of Dr. Kelso B. Morris. In 1973, after receiving additional training as a postdoctoral instructor at University of California, Irvine, he joined the chemistry faculty at Howard. Since then, he has been a mentor to four doctoral, three master’s and numerous undergraduate students pursuing a variety of programs, such as McNair, AMP, and honors programs. He has published more than thirty refereed articles and taught chemistry to hundreds of students.
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Jesse M. Nicholson
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CHEMISTRY
Dr. Jesse M. Nicholson is a professor and chairman in the Department of Chemistry at Howard University. He has distinguished himself as a teacher and researcher as well as an activist for increasing the number of African-American Ph.D. chemists. Jesse Nicholson received his B.S. degree in chemistry from State University of New York at Stony Brook. Afterward, he earned his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Brandeis University. His outstanding research on a new class of chemicals was published while he was still a graduate student. Having excelled as a researcher, Dr. Nicholson was awarded the National Science Foundation (NSF) Postdoctoral Fellowship to work with the renowned Professor Saul Weinstein at UCLA. His work at UCLA resulted in a landmark paper on the subject of homoaromaticity.
Recently, Dr. Nicholson received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Stony Brook. During the ceremony, one of his professors recalled that "He was the star of the class, a modest young man of quick intellect, unbound curiosity and eagerness to learn." Since coming to Howard in 1966 he has been heavily involved in research and in preparing college students for rewarding careers in chemistry. He has published more than 35 articles in professional journals and served as advisors to 14 doctoral students, 12 master’s students, and numerous undergraduate students. Annually, he serves as a judge at various high school science fairs and for the science portion of the NAACP-sponsored ACTSO. As chairman, he has opened new doors to resources that allow the Department of Chemistry to expand the opportunities given to Howard University students. He is especially proud of the corporate-sponsored Pre-Freshman Program that helps chemistry majors bridge the gap between high school and college life and encourages them to pursue the Ph.D. degree. Dr. Nicholson strongly believes in the potential of our youth and considers it an honor to be able to play such a critical role in their education. Most recently, Dr. Nicholson received a presidential award for his outstanding works as a member.
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Vernon R. Morris
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CHEMISTRY
Dr. Vernon R. Morris is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry and a founding faculty member of the Howard University Graduate Program in Atmospheric Sciences. He also currently serves as Deputy Director of CSTEA. Dr. Morris earned his B.S. degrees in chemistry and mathematics in 1985 from Morehouse College. He earned his Ph.D. degree in atmospheric chemistry, with a minor in physical chemistry, from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1991. Dr. Morris has earned recognition as a NASA Graduate Student Research Program Fellow, a Regents Scholar, a NATO Advanced Study Scholar, a University of California Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow, two University Merit Awards, and as a Class of 1997 Project Kaleidoscope Faculty for the 21st Century. Most recently, Dr. Morris was awarded the prestigious NSF CAREER Award for his research on the photochemistry of carbonaceous aerosols. Dr. Morris is a member of the NASA Tropical Rainforest Measuring Mission (TRMM) Science Team and collaborates with the Solar Occultation and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) scientists at the Smithsonian Astronomical Observatory (SAO) to investigate collision dynamics in solar coronal streamers. Since Dr. Morris has been at Howard University, his research within the Department of Chemistry and at the Center for the Study of Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Atmospheres (CSTEA) has involved air quality, NOx production in lightning-active deep convective systems, reaction mechanisms and dynamics relevant to atmospheric or interstellar chemistry and theoretical calculations on small radical reactions and cluster formation of significance to the interstellar medium and extraterrestrial planets.
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Dharmaray Raghavan
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CHEMISTRY
Dr. Raghavan has published 14 peer-reviewed publications and 10 proceeding articles. His doctoral and post-doctoral work at the University of Illinois Biodegradation of Polymer Composites has brought him in the company of illustrious scientists listed in Who’s Who in Science and Engineering. His research centers on the biological, thermal and chemical treatment of contaminants and polymeric wastes. Presently, the research team is modeling the chemical interaction of soil and contaminant. He has been involved in the development of modified ASTM method for mass balance of polymer degradation. Professor Raghavan through other research projects is constantly proposing and working on research ideas for a greener environment (namely, recyclability of tires, biodegradable polymers). He has on-going research efforts with the Polymer and Building Materials Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Dr. Raghavan served as a mentor for Ms. Sonya Burns, a former McNair student at Howard University who is currently pursuing a graduate degree in chemistry at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.
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Verle Headings
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GENETICS
Dr. Headings grew up on a farm in the Willamette Valley of Oregon and was the first member of his family to undertake higher education. Upon obtaining a baccalaureate degree, he became a research assistant in cardiovascular physiology at the University of Michigan, where he also earned M.S. in human physiology as well as the M.D. For six months during his medical school career he was a research fellow at the Rigs Hospital, University of Copenhagen, supported by the Michigan Heart Association and Rask-Orsted Fondet. Following a medical internship he completed the Ph.D. in human genetics at the University of Michigan. Since 1969, Dr. Headings has been a clinical geneticist and a member of the Howard University faculty. He is director of graduate studies in genetics and human genetics and director of the M.D. / Ph.D. program. His scholarly writing includes more than 100 items and was awarded the 1984 Outstanding Research Award in Health Affairs by Howard University.
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Clement Lutterodt
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MATHEMATICS
Dr. Clement Lutterodt is a professor in the Department of Mathematics. A graduate of the University of Ghana, he received his doctorate from the University of Birmingham in England. A Fulbright-Hays scholar, Dr. Lutterodt began his teaching career at Howard in 1980. A member of the American Mathematics Society and National Association of Mathematics, he has lectured at several universities including the University of Aarhus (Denmark) and John Hopkins University. Dr. Lutterodt also has presented many scientific papers internationally in countries such as Italy, Belgium, Togo, China and South Africa. Dr. Lutterodt is currently researching meromorphic/holomorphic approximation in affined complex algebraic varieties. His other areas of research interest include holomorphic vector bundle approximations over different kinds of " Convex Domains" and value distribution theory in several complex variables. He has published in journals such as Nonlinear Number Methods & Rational Approximation and Approximation Theory VIII. Dr. Lutterodt’s publications include "How About a Career in Mathematics" and "Mathematical Formulae, Tables and Statistical Tables."
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Earl Bloch
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MICROBIOLOGY
Earl Bloch , City College, New York City - B.S. - 1968 - Chemistry
Hunter College, New York City - M.A. - 1971 - Organic Chemistry
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY - Ph.D. - 1978 - Immunology
Dr. Earl Block is an associate professor in the Department of Microbiology at Howard University College of Medicine.
Some of Dr. Block’s most recent publications include Gaither, C5b-7 and C5b-8 Precursors Of The Membrane Attack Complex (C5b-9)Are Effective Killers Of E. Coli J5 During Serum Incubation and Potassium Cyanide Protects Escherichia coli from Complement Killing by the Inhibition of C3 Convertase Activity.
Dr. Block has written funded grants that total over one million dollars. His current venture includes a pending grant for funding of more than two million dollars, the focus will be complement and electrophilic damage in gram-negative bacteria.
Dr. Block was a recipient of two awards in 2000, Excellence in Teaching, Howard University College of Medicine, Student Council and the Appreciation Howard University Pre-academic re-enforcement Program (PARP).
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Agnes Day
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MICROBIOLOGY
Dr. Agnes Adeline Day received her B.S. in education in 1974 and her B.S. in biology from Bethune Cookman College in 1984. She was awarded her Ph.D. in microbiology from Howard University. Her professional experience includes her position as associate professor, Department of Microbiology, Howard University. Her numerous awards include being nominated for the University Excellence Award and the 1997 National Technical Association’s Outstanding Minority Women in Science Engineering Award. In November 1998, Dr. Day was honored as the most distinguished alumnus from her department at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences’ 40th Anniversary Commemorative Gala. Dr. Day teaches Immunology-Medical Microbiology-Infectious Diseases in the College of Medicine, and Medical Microbiology in the College of Dentistry. Her graduate and undergraduate courses include Cell Biology, Advance Molecular Biology, and General Microbiology. Dr. Day is currently working on three research grants from the National Institutes of Health.
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Paulette Furbert-Harris
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MICROBIOLOGY
Dr. Paulette Furbert-Harris is an assistant professor in the Microbiology Department. She received her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. from Howard University. She also conducted a genome-wide search for asthma susceptibility loci in ethnically diverse populations; a collaborative study on the genetics of asthma (CSGA). Acknowledged for her accomplishments, Dr. Furbert-Harris earned the 1997 Kaiser-Permanente Award for Excellence in Teaching and the 1998 AACR-HBCU Faculty Award in Cancer Research. She has served on advisory committees such as the American Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics, Integration Panel Member, USAMRMC Osteoporosis Program NIDDK Workshop on Studies in Minority Populations. She is also a member of the American Association of Immunologists and Sigma Xi.
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James Adkins
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NUTRITIONAL SCIENCE
James Adkins.
(Forthcoming)
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Mamie C. Montague
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NURSING
Dr. Montague. A full-time nurse for 42 years is a proud advocate for nurses, nursing, and for the responsibilities and rights of less fortunate people. She is an associate professor in the Division of Nursing, College of Pharmacy, Nursing and Allied Health Sciences, Howard University, where she has served since 1971. Dr. Montague has held various faculty positions, served as department chairperson and research clinician. Her excellence as an educator is extolled by both students and colleagues. In 1993, Dr. Montague received the District of Columbia Nurses Association nurse of the year award for excellence in education. In 1994, Dr. Montague was selected by the American Nurse’s search for excellence honoree in nursing. In that same year, she was inducted into the American Academy of Nursing, joining a small cadre of distinguished professionals. In 1995, Dr. Montague was chosen a faculty mentor in the university’s junior faculty development and retention program; in September 1995, she was the Division of Nursing nominee for the Howard University Distinguished Teacher - Scholar Award. Dr. Montague Received the merit award for sustained superior performance and service to Howard University in 1996, 1998 and 1999.
Dr. Montague is an alumna of the University of Pennsylvania Postdoctoral Fellowship Program in The Center for Serious Illness, The University of Maryland, The Catholic University of America, Dillard University, the University of Tennessee/Memphis, and the ANA Minority Fellowships Program. She holds certifications in Gerontological Nursing, Medical –Surgical Nursing, and Family Nurse Practitioner.
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Rober Copeland
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PHARMACOLOGY
Dr. Robert L. Copeland is a graduate of American University and earned his doctorate of Pharmacology from Howard University in 1985. Chair of the New Health Science Library/Learning Resource Center Advisory Committee, Dr. Copeland has been awarded grants from the National Cancer Institute researching Helicobacter Pylori and Oxidant Induced Gastric Injury. He has served on many committees, including the Literature Selection Technical Review Committee for the National Library of Medicine, the Scientific Review Panel (SRP) for the National Library of Medicine, TOXNET, Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB), Sigma Xi, and the Scientific Research Society. He is currently the training coordinator for the Minority Neuroscience Fellowship Program. In addition, Dr. Copeland is a participating member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, New York Academy of Sciences, American Medical Informatics Association, Society of Toxicology, and Society for Neuroscience.
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Krishna Kumar
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PHARMACY
Krishna Kumar
(Forthcoming)
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Segun Gbadegusin
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PHILOSOPHY
Dr. Segun Gbadegusin, a professor in the Department of Philosophy, began his teaching career at Howard University in 1992 having formerly served as a professor at Colgate University and Vice Dean of Faculty of Arts at Obafemi Awolowo University. Dr. Gbadegusin received his B.A. from the University of Ife, Nigeria, in 1974 and his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1980. He has edited several books, including Ultimate Reality and meaning: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Philosophy of Understanding, and co-edited Second Order: An African Journal of Philosophy. Other published works include "Ethics, Higher Education and Social Responsibility," with Dr. Joyce Ladner and contributed to such books as "Current Trends in African Philosophy" in Eliot Deutsch and Ron Bontekoe, The Blackwell Companion to world Philosophy, "Kinship of the Dispossessed W.E.B. Du Bois, Nkrumah and the Foundation of Pan-Africanisrn" in Bernard, Grosholz and Stewart, W.E.B. Du Bois on Race and Culture, and Ultimate Reality and Meaning Quest Philosophical Discussions. His areas of specialization consist of Social and Political Philosophy, Ethics, African Philosophy, African Political Thought, and Bioethics. Dr. Gbadegusin is a member of the Washington chapter of Egbe Isokan Yoruba; of which he has also served as president; Egbe Omo Yoruba’s National Association of Yoruba Descendants, USA and Canada; and has served as director of the World Congress of Free Nigerians.
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Charles Verharen
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PHILOSOPHY
Dr. Charles Verharen received his M.A. and Ph.D. in philosophy from Georgetown University. He completed his baccalaureate degree in literature at Seattle University; Dr. Verharen specializes in methodology, philosophy of education, philosophy of culture and Africana philosophy and is fluent in both German and French. His areas of concentration are philosophy, Asian philosophy and comparative philosophy. Dr. Verharen has been awarded grants from the Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children, General Telephone and Electronics (GTE), and the Andrew Mellow Foundation. His publications include the book, Rationality in Philosophy and Science and numerous articles, including as "An Ethics of Intimacy: Race and Moral Obligation" and "What They Gain on Earth by Being Black: Du Bois and the Future of African American Education." Dr. Verharen’s articles have been published in the Washington Post, Washington Times, Journal of Black Studies, Journal of Negro Education, and Howard University Journal of Philosophy. Dr. Verharen’s current research includes a study of philosophy and culture based in part on discussions with philosophy department members in several universities, including schools in Hong Kong, Beijing, Singapore, Capetown, and Nairobi. Dr. Verharen is a former chair of the Department of Philosophy, and the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association; he is also a board member of the Anacostia Watershed Society.
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Humanities
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Melbourne Cummings
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COMMUNICATIONS
Dr. Melbourne Cummings, a professor in and Department chair of Human Communications Studies in the School of Communications. A graduate of Southern University, she received her M.A. from North Carolina Central University and Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Cummings research experience is mostly with qualitative and historical/ critical methodologies, with her area of research focusing on rhetoric (African American Discourse). She has published numerous articles and presented papers dealing with African Americans in Communications, including "The Changing Image of the Black Family on Television" and "Developing Strategies that Promote Early Identification and Recruitment of Persons of Color to Speech Communication", in journals such as The Journal of Popular Culture and for conferences such as the Speech Communication Association. Dr. Cummings is also a member of the African Studies Association and National Communication Association.
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Ann Maydan Nicotera
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COMMUNICATIONS
Dr. Anne Nicotera (Ph.D., Ohio University, 1990) is an associate professor in the Department of Human Communication Studies at Howard University. She teaches graduate courses in the organizational communication specialty, including organizational communication, interpersonal communication, negotiation and conflict resolution, current issues in organizational communication, and organizational communication research methods. She is very active in professional associations and serves on the editorial boards for several scholarly journals. She has published her research in such journals as Communication Reports, Communication Research Reports, Human Communication Research, Journal of Applied Communication Research, Management Communication Quarterly, and Western Journal of Communication. She has also published three books and numerous book chapters. Her research focuses on conflict and communication problems in both organizational and relational contexts. Her research interests also include gender and intercultural communication.
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Ovetta Harris
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COMMUNICATIONS
Dr. Harris has worked clinically for seven years exclusively in Alternative Augmentative Communication (AAC) Prior to entering her doctoral program. AAC and literacy acquisition was the main focus of her doctoral studies while at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Harris is extremely knowledgeable in the area of AAC and has published articles, conducted several AAC research studies, and presently serves as a National lecturer for American Speech-Language-Hearing Association on the topic of culturally diverse AAC users. Harris has served on the executive board of Technology Assistance program for the State of Rhode Island and has continued to consult with schools, children’s hospitals and university clinics with regards to AAC systems and technology. Harris is an African American scholar with a background in multicultural issues in speech-language pathology and has the Certificate of Clinical Competence from the American Speech Language Hearing Association. Harris has assisted on previous research projects focusing on multiculturalism, and has written several articles on cultural diversity in education. She has had over four years of post-doctoral research experience. Dr. Harris was recently a post-doctoral fellow at Purdue University. She is presently working as an assistant professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Howard University. Dr. Harris’ primary duties at Howard and Purdue were to conduct research in cultural language issues. As an African American scholar, she is particularly interested in research concerning cultural diversity and brings a working knowledge of the topic to her research projects. Currently serving on three doctoral committees at Howard, Dr. Harris has published professional articles, made conference presentations and given lectures on the cultural context of literacy. One of her current projects is Dialectal Applications of Minspeak. This project will investigate strategies for incorporation dialect into a minspeak framework.
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Rodney D. Green
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ECONOMICS
Rodney D. Green has served as professor of urban economics at Howard University for 21 years. He has led many important urban studies evaluating the impact of energy policy on African American households, studying the development and social impacts of the new Metrorail system in Washington D.C., and conducting path breaking work in the areas of poverty, discrimination, and racism. He has authored four books and over 40 journal articles and often testifies at public hearings on important urban policy issues. Dr. Green is an expert statistician, as evidenced in three of his scholarly book projects, entitled Racial Segregation in U.S. Public Housing, 1932-1992 (NY: Praeger Publishers, 1998 [in press]); Rail Transit Station Area Development: Small Area Modeling in Washington, DC. (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe Publishers, 1993); and Forecasting with Computer Models: Energy, Population, and Econometric Forecasting (NY: Praeger Publisher, 1985). These projects required a wide range of statistical techniques, ranging from elementary Chi-Square and t test comparative analyses, to the use of dissimilarity indices, to the use of sophisticated 2SLS and logic regression analysis and multi-equation modeling simulation systems. Dr. Green currently serves as Director of the Center for Urban Progress, a major initiative by Howard University to strengthen its urban research agenda, and also serves as Director of the Collaborative Core Unit in Labor, Race, and Political Economy that fosters interdisciplinary social science research in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Green received his undergraduate degree in politics and economics from Yale University (Magna cum Laude) in 1970, and, after a tour of duty in the U.S. Army, went on to complete his M.A. and Ph.D. (1980) degrees in economics at the American University.
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Charles Betsey
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ECONOMICS
Dr. Betsey is a Graduate Professor in the Department of Economics at Howard University. He attended the University of Michigan, where he received his BA and PhD degrees in economics. Dr. Betsey’s current research interests include consumption behavior and wealth accumulation of African-Americans, and the analysis of pay and compensation policies in various labor markets, including the markets for teleworkers and college faculty. His recent professional activities include presentation at a conference sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor on teleworkers in the 21st century; a presentation at the Southern Economic Association conference on the correlates of good credit standing among African-Americans; and a presentation at the Allied Social Science Associations annual conference on racial discrimination in criminal sentencing and its implications for reparations. Dr. Betsey is currently a member of the Board of Editorial Advisors of the Review of Black Political Economy. From 1991-92, he served as president of the National Economic Association.
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Emily Blank
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ECONOMICS
Dr. Emily Blank has been an associate professor in Howard’s Department of Economics since 1985. She graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1975 and from the London School of Economics in 1982; She received her doctorate from Boston College. Once a visiting scholar for the United State Department of Agriculture in economic research service, she has received several grants, including a grant from the U.S. Department of Labor "Emotional Health and Pension Savings" in 1997. Dr. Blank has published numerous articles and presented papers such as "Layoffs and Their Impact on Wage Rates and Hours of Work and "Work Effort of Economics Faculty" Her professional experience include, chairing the College Admissions Committee, 1994-1996, and Chair Library and Invited Speakers Committee, 1994-1995, and 1997-1998.
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Constance Ellison
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EDUCATION
Constance M. Ellison teacher, scholar, researcher, educational consultant, and student advocate, earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Boston University and a Doctorate of Philosophy degree in Development Psychology from Howard University. She was a postdoctoral fellow in the Applied Developmental Psychology program at the University of Maryland. Dr. Ellison is currently an Associate Professor of Educational Psychology and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Human Development and Psychoeducational Studies in the School of Education. She also serves as Project Director at the Center for the Education of Students Placed at Risk (CRESPAR) at Howard University.
Dr. Ellison has published several refereed articles and book chapters on educational issues pertaining to African American children. Currently she is co-authoring a book titled Educational Excellence and Equity in the African American Community. As Principal Investigator at the Center for Research on the Education of Students Placed at Risk (CRESPAR), Dr. Ellison research is focused on cognition and learning with specific emphasis on socio-psychological relationships, forms of instruction, routines, disciplinary procedures, and language usage to inform classroom achievement and educational reform relative to African American children from low-income backgrounds.
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Gerunda Hughes
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EDUCATION
Dr. Hughes is an assistant professor of Curriculum and Instruction in the School of Education, where she teaches mathematics methods courses for elementary and secondary pre-service teachers. Dr. Hughes is also acting principal investigator (1998) and researcher at the Center for Research on the Education of Students Placed At Risk (CRESPAR), which was funded by the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI) for the period 1994-1999. She received her B.S. in mathematics from the University of Rhode Island in 1972; the M.A. in mathematics from the University of Maryland, College Park in, 1974; and the Ph.D. in educational psychology from Howard University in 1991. Dr. Hughes has served as project director of the WBHR Alliance for Minority Participation Teacher Preparation (AMP-TP) Program (1996-98), funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF); as research/evaluation consultant for the Engineering Coalition of Schools for Excellence and Leadership (ECSEL) program and the Calculus Reform Project at Howard University; as co-principal investigator on two small-scaled Howard University-funded projects, respectively entitled "Transforming Professors into Teachers" and "Effective Teacher Preparation: How Are We Doing?" Dr. Hughes is a member of several professional organizations, including the American Education Research Association (AERA), the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME), and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM). She also serves on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Validation Studies (NVS) panel as a mathematics and test/item bias consultant. The NVS is coordinated by the American Institutes for Research (AIR) and reports to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES).
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Marilyn Irving
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EDUCATION
Dr. Marilyn Irving received her B.A. in biology and chemistry from Grambling State University in 1974. She received her M.S. in Secondary Science Education in 1976 and doctorate of Higher Education Administration in 1987, from Texas Southern University. Dr. Irving is currently teaching Curriculum and Instruction in the School of Education. The focus of her research is to create effective professional development models in science to upgrade content knowledge and pedagogical skills of preservice and in-service teachers to improve science education in grades K-12. Dr. Irving’s research is based upon twelve years of study and models; 2) developing teacher leaders; and 3) integrating theory and practice in science education via content and pedagogy. Her contribution to teaching, research and service in particular has gained recognition by students (Blue Key Honorary Award), School of Education, Department of Curriculum and Instruction (Distinguished Teaching and Service Awards). Dr. Irving is currently the editor of the Journal of the Research Association of Minority Professors.
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Hakim Rashid
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EDUCATION
Hakim Rashid
(Forthcoming)
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James Williams
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EDUCATION
In 1970, James Williams entered the Ph.D. program in Educational Psychology, Univ. of Iowa and graduated in 1974. Spent the summer of 1973 teaching at N.C.Central Univ. and was employed as a faculty member at Howard U. beginning Aug. 1973.
In September 1973, he was appointed Director of Admission-H.U. He was appointed Assoc. Dean, School. of Ed. in Jan. 1975 and remained in position until July 1976 when he returned to full time teaching.
He always had an interest establishing that no difference exist between abilities of blacks and whites when minorities are given the opportunity to be equally exposed. In 1978, he established a model graduate program for preparing teachers(beginning in 1979) to receive either a Masters or Advanced Certificate degree in Ed.Psy./Gifted and a model summer enrichment program for gifted students(from across the nation) grades 1-11 that were taught by those teachers after designing a curriculum for the subject to be taught in the summer program. He has published articles on the gifted, vocational interest and counseling minority students.
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Paul Fallon
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ENGLISH
Dr. Fallon received his doctorate in Linguistics from Ohio State University in 1998. He is a professor in the Department of English. His areas of interest include phonology, historical linguistics, and sociolinguistics. Dr. Fallon is currently working on a linguistic description of Bilin, a Cushitic language spoken in Eritrea, and focusing on its sound patterns and on its complex morphology. He will also be developing grammatical sketches and phonetic studies of other underdescribed African languages. In addition to further developing purely empirical descriptions of understudied languages, his research aims to explore and develop both Optimality Theory, a linguistic theory of constraint interaction, and feature geometry, a theory of sound representation. Dr. Fallon recently presented a paper in which the phonological patterning of ejectives (glottalic stop sounds) could be explained by cross-linguistic reranking of constraints in a factorial typology. In addition, he is working on publishing the proceedings of a conference that was organized on the Gullah language. Dr. Fallon’s was awarded the Phi Beta Kappa and the Phi Kappa Phi award. He has received the following grants from Howard University: the New Faculty Research Award, the Faculty Sponsored Research Program award, and two Funds for Academic Excellence awards.
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Thorelle Tsomando
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ENGLISH
Thorelle Tsomando, Associate Professor. Ph.D., SUNY-Buffalo. Literary criticism, the novel and narratology, Shakespeare, nineteenth-century British literature.
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Rosemarie Garland Thomson
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ENGLISH
Dr. Rosemarie Thomson is associate professor in the English Department. She received her B.A. and M.A. from the University of Nevada; she received her doctorate of English from Brandeis University in 1993. Her major fields of concentration are 19th- and 20th-century American fiction, feminist theory, and African-American literature. Dr. Thomson has merited several awards, including the 1998-99 Howard University Academic Fund for Excellence Grant; at Columbia University, the 1998 NEH Summer Institute on Death in America; the 1998 Howard University Merit Award; and the Howard University Faculty Research Fellowship in the Social Sciences, Humanities, and Education, 1995-1997. She is the author of the books, Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature and Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body and has published articles in journals such as the Michigan Quarterly Review, Disability Studies," Disability Studies Quarterly, American Literature, and Feminist Studies. As an English professor, she has taught the following courses: Literary Criticism, Survey of American Literature, Women in Literature, American Realism and Naturalism, Double Consciousness in American Fiction, Advanced Essay Writing for Majors, and Graduate Seminar on the Body in Culture. Dr. Thomson has presented a series of lectures for the Southeast Women's Studies Conference, Brown University, and Harvard University Center for Cultural and Literary Studies, Sciences and Culture.
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Sylvan Alleyne
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HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
Dr. Sylvan Alleyne obtained her Master’s of Social Work from Catholic University in 1987 and her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of the West Indies in 1987. Currently, Dr. Alleyne is a professor and a coordinator for the Human Development Program at Howard University. She has held these positions for almost 10 years. Dr. Alleyne’s current area of interest and specialization is Human Development and social aspects of chronic illness. Her research includes reduction of infant mortality, identification of predisposing factors in infant mortality, family research in chronic illnesses, and parenting. Some of Dr. Alleyne’s major accomplishments are 26 publications in referred journals, 2 book reviews, and 7 chapters in books and monograph numerous conference presentations, running anger management workshops. Dr. Alleyne has chaired and advised on the committees of numerous Master’s Theses and Ph.D. dissertations. In 1999-2000, Dr. Alleyne was the academic advisor for one Master’s and one Ph.D. Thesis, and was a member on the committee for four Master’s and six Ph.D.’s. On May 1, 2000, Dr. Alleyne received a Human Development Award from the School of Education at Howard University in recognition of Exceptional Research and Scholarship for the Academic Year 1999-2000. Also, Dr. Alleyne has received several student awards and a Black Parenting Award.
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Velma LaPoint
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HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
Dr. LaPoint is Associate Professor, Department of Human Development and Psychoeducational Studies, School of Education, Howard University and teaches courses in child development, family life, and policies and programs that promote human development. Dr. LaPoint is involved in three research areas: 1) Principal Investigator of the Secondary School Project, Center for Research on the Education of Students Placed at Risk (CRESPAR), Howard University funded by the Office of Education Research Improvement, U.S. Department of Education; 2) Study Group on Corporate and Industry Influences on Children’s Development: Research, Policy, Practice and Advocacy supported by Howard’s University’s Fund for Academic Excellence, 1998-1999, with Dr. Priscilla Hambrick-Dixon, Hunter College, City University of New York; and 3) the Youth Dress and Behavior Project supported by Howard University’s Faculty Research Fund, 1995-1996 with Dr. Sylvan I. Alleyne, Department of Human Development and Psychoeducational Studies, Howard University. Dr. LaPoint earned a B.S. degree in education/sociology from the University of Hartford and MA/PhD degrees in counseling from Michigan State University. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship in child development from the National Institute of Mental Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Service and two other post-doctoral fellowships sponsored by the Society for Research in Child Development: 1) Study Group on the Affective and Social Development of Black Children at Emory University and 2) Summer Institute of Child Development Research and Public Policy at Cornell University. Dr. LaPoint is a member of several national organizations such as the American Psychological Association, American Education Research Association, Society for Research in Child Development, and the Black Caucus of SRCD. She has given presentations at local, national and international conferences and has written and/or been quoted in journal articles, book chapters, and popular press articles.
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Engineering
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Ramesh Chawia
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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
Dr. Chawla has twenty-five years of experience in teaching, research and industrial consulting in the fields of chemical and environmental engineering. He has authored or co-authored over sixty technical papers on topics covering the biological treatment of hazardous wastes, surfactant assisted bioavailability enhancement, combustion and incineration chemistry and kinetics, kinetic modeling, measurement and monitoring of low level organic pollutants in air and water, and hazardous waste treatment in aqueous and soil systems. Over the last ten years, Dr. Chawla has been principal investigator for about 20 different environmental research and development grants or contracts funded by EPA, NSF, DOE, DOD, NRC, and private industries. He has supervised and/or served on thesis committees of over 25 graduate students in chemical and environmental engineering. Dr. Chawla serves on many regional and national technical and advisory committees and is a technical reviewer for professional journals, EPA, and NSF. Dr. Chawla has developed courses and other teaching aids for environmental and engineering education; he has also conducted teaching workshops and taught special courses at the high school and practicing engineers levels. He has received many university and national awards and commendations for these efforts.
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Dan-Nien Fan
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MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
Dan-Nien Fan
(Forthcoming)
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