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Three
professors, Mbye Cham, Ph.D., (African
Studies), Haile
Gerima (Radio, Television and Film) and Françoise
Pfaff (World
Languages and Cultures), were invited by the
Senegalese government to participate in the
3rd World Festival of Black Arts and Cultures,
which was held in Dakar, Dec. 10-31. Professor
Cham served as commissioner for the US-Canadian-Caribbean
Diaspora Film Section, Professor Gerima screened
and discussed his award-winning film “Teza”
and Professor Pfaff spoke at a roundtable
on the late Senegalese writer and filmmaker
Ousmane Sembène. She also presented
her latest book on Senegalese cinema, A l'ecoute
du cinéma sénégalais.
The faculty members appeared in radio and
television interviews regarding their creative
research and teaching at Howard, and were
featured in the international press. |
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The
2009 Bison Yearbook
won two awards from American Scholastic Press
Association, under Editor-in-Chief Imoni Hampton:
Most Outstanding University Yearbook and
First Place Award. ) |
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Peter and Anneli Lax Foundation donated $11,000
to Howard to endow the James
A. Donaldson Prize for Excellence in Mathematics in
the Department of Mathematics.Donaldson is the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. |
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| Next
month, the Pentagon Channel will air “Deeds
Not Words: The Buffalo Soldiers in World War II,”
a documentary produced, written, edited and narrated
by James A. Rada, an associate
professor in the School of Communications. The film
is the true story of one the last segregated army
units as told by the men themselves. The scheduled
air dates are: Feb. 4, 1:00 a.m.; Feb. 9, 11 p.m.;
Feb. 12, 5 pm; Feb. 14, 1:30 p.m.; Feb. 17, 3:00
a.m.; Feb. 24, 12 midnight; Feb. 27, 10:00 a.m. |
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