During the first week of their collegiate career, the freshmen class peeked into their future through green lenses. Van Jones, who previously served as President Barack Obama’s Special Advisor for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation at the White House Council on Environmental Quality, implored students to explore and champion sustainable industries.
“You have made a very wise decision to be in Washington D.C. at Howard University at this time in history,” Jones said. “You are in the position to learn the new science to make things cleaner.”

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Washington, D.C. (Aug. 10, 2010) – Howard University and Bank of America will showcase a significant collection of contemporary African American art from the Bank of America Collection in an exhibition titled Mixing Metaphors: the Aesthetic, the Social and the Political in African American Art from August 14 through December 17 at the Howard University Gallery of Art.

The works in Mixing Metaphors were selected by guest curator, Deborah Willis, well known photographer, art historian and art educator, who divided the exhibition into three sections: Reflection and Likeness, Constructing Place and Rituals of Existence.The thematic sections allow visitors to examine more than 90 photographs, paintings, prints, drawings, sculpture and mixed media executed by 36 different artists.
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