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| Brazile Urges Howard Students to Heed the Call to Serve |
WASHINGTON – The auditorium in the Blackburn Center was at full capacity at 11 a.m., a full 30 minutes before the third annual Charles W. Harris Lecture featuring veteran political strategist Donna Brazile was scheduled to begin. The overflow room across the hall was also filled with students, faculty and staff who came to hear Brazile’s passionate and inspirational message.
The hour-long lecture, titled the “Fierce Urgency of Now,” paid homage to Dr. Martin Luther King’s legacy and ideals and implored students to heed the call to public service.
There were times that the young and unabated champion for change had no money. “Even without a job, I still had a cause and a mission,” said the author of the best-selling memoir Cooking with Grease: Stirring the Pots in American Politics.
In closing, Brazile urged students to keep the momentum that led to the historic presidential election victory for Barack Obama and keep King’s dream of equality for all alive. Read More |
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| Preservation as Practice Two-Day Symposium |
 The College of Arts and Sciences at Howard University will host a two-day symposium to articulate the significance of the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center (MSRC) and Howard's intellectual legacy to laying a foundation for the University's future.
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| Navy Names Ship For Renowned Howard Surgeon and Blood Pioneer |
WASHINGTON (Jan. 24, 2010) -- Dr. Charles Drew, the former chair of the Department of Surgery at Howard University College of Medicine who saved an untold number of lives through his pioneering work with blood, is being honored by the U.S. Navy with a ship.
Secretary of the Navy Donald Winter recently announced that a 689-foot, 42,000-ton Lewis and Clark-class dry cargo/ammunition ship, T-AKE 10, will be named the USNS Charles R. Drew in honor of the physician and medical researcher whose pioneering work led to the discovery that blood could be separated into plasma. The ship named for Drew will be christened March 27, and Leffall will speak at the ceremony. Read More |
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Drew's system for the storing of blood plasma, the “blood bank,” revolutionized the medical profession. |
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