Capstone March 2010

Stay tuned to next month’s issue of Capstone for a new Voices from the Hill question.
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Student Murals Illuminate the Community The artistic brilliance of students and faculty in Howard’s Division of Fine Arts is shared with the surrounding community through the productions of the Public Arts class. This course, offered each semester, trains students in the process of creating murals for public enjoyment. Public arts, in general, draws originally from a social painting phase that transformed urban communities, following the civil rights movement. read more... Click the video icon to learn more about the Public Arts class and the mural process.


Conference Reinforces the Value of Moorland-Spingarn The College of Arts and Sciences assembled a list of nationally recognized archivists, librarians and scholars to celebrate the legacy of the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center (MSRC), and to discuss its position in the future of Africana research. read more...	Excellence at Howard Gail Nunlee-Bland, M.D., director of the Howard University Hospital Diabetes Treatment Center, received the Outstanding Service Award for the Promotion of Endocrine Health of an Underserved Population by the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists. read more...	University News The Minority Media and Telecommunications Council donated $175,000 to help strengthen the John H. Johnson School of Communications’ initiatives, including the capital campaign for a new building. The donation will go toward planning for construction of a state-of-the-art facility, read more...