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History
major Jalil Muhammad was named
one of 25 fellows selected for the second cohort
of the Woodrow Wilson-Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Fellowships for Aspiring Teachers of Color. The
fellows will receive a $30,000 stipend to complete
a master's degree in education, preparation to
teach in a high-need public school, support throughout
a three-year teaching commitment and guidance toward
teaching certification. (Justin D. Knight)
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Charles
L. Betsey, Ph.D., interim dean of the Graduate School,
was appointed to an advisory committee for a Council
of Graduate Schools (CGS) study of the factors affecting
completion and attrition in STEM master's programs.
The pilot study, funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
and the National Science Foundation, expands upon
an earlier CGS study and will be conducted over
a 27-month period, through January 2013. The CGS
will select five institutions to provide data on
several cohorts of master's students from administrative
data, surveys and focus groups and interviews with
students, graduate program directors and deans in
order to better understand reasons for enrollment,
factors that contribute to student success and promising
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A
long-standing partnership with the General Motors
(GM) Foundation, the Partners for the Advancement
of Collaborative Engineering Educations (PACE) and
Howard yielded an award of $88,700.
GM Vice President of Global Design and GM Foundation
Board Member Ed Welburn (pictured, left), who received a bachelor'
s degree in Fine Arts at Howard, presented the grant
at the Washington Auto Show in January. Along with
GM's financial funding of $70,000, PACE, the corporate
alliance between GM, Autodesk, Hewlett-Packard,
Siemens PLM Software and Sun Microsystems, provided
$17,700 worth of in-kind donations of computer-based
hardware, software and other tooling equipment.
The grant will also support the continuation of
the Corporate Team Adoption Program, in which GM
engineers, designers and representatives from other
areas of the company mentor and guide student teams
with special projects, jobsite tours and identify
professional opportunities. (Justin D. Knight)
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| The
Patrick E. Gorman Scholarship fund dedicated $10,000 to
the College of Medicine to award students
with financial need. |
Five
Department of Music students Cassandra
Allen, Richard Jamar Boyer, Andrew W. Jenkins, Erin
McClover and Damarra Underwood
performed in a concert commemorating the 50th anniversary
of the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy
on Jan 28 at the Kennedy Center for the Performing
Arts. The performance was under the direction
of Department of Music alumnus Rev. Nolan
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| John
Tharakan, Ph.D., professor of Chemical Engineering,
received a Best Presentation award during the 2011
International Engineering and Technology Education Conference,
Jan. 17-20, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Tharakan's paper " Institutionalizing a Student-Centered Community-Based
Service Learning Engineering Education Experience " discussed
the learning projects of the University's chapter of
Engineers Without Borders and the potential these projects
have for incorporation into regular engineering curricula.
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The
Howard University Cancer
Center, in cooperation with the Department
of Community and Family Medicine, was awarded a $50,000,
one-year grant by the Avon Breast Health Outreach Program
to increase awareness about the life-saving benefits of
early detection of breast cancer. Carla Williams,
Ph.D., assistant professor of medicine, College
of Medicine, and director of Community Outreach Core for
the center, will oversee the program as the principal
investigator.
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