Physics Professor Named 2004-2005 Fulbright Scholar

Prabhakar Misra, Ph.D., professor of physics, has been selected as a Fulbright Scholar for 2004-2005 by the William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. He will spend the academic year at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai, India. His research will focus on the laser spectroscopy of phenolic molecules and their complexes. These molecules, environmentally significant species, are present in toxic pollutants in wastewater.

A Howard professor since 1988, Misra joins the ranks of the 261,000 Fulbright program alumni. Founded in 1946 under legislation introduced by former Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, the program’s principal purpose is to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of the nearly 150 participating countries.

Doctoral Candidate Named 2004-2005 Fulbright Scholar

Glenn A. Chambers, doctoral candidate in the Department of History, received a Fulbright Scholarship to study in Honduras during the 2004-2005 academic year. His proposed research project will undertake an exploration of the emergence of an Afro-Honduran community at the turn of the 20th century. The Fulbright program awards approximately 4,500 new grants annually.

Graduate School Dean Receives Yale Bouchet Award in Minority Education

Orlando L. Taylor, Ph.D., Vice Provost for Research and dean of the Graduate School, was unanimously selected as the recipient of the 2004 Yale Bouchet Leadership Award in Minority Graduate Education. He received his award during a banquet at Yale University in April. It is named in honor of Dr. Edward Alexander Bouchet (B.A., Yale College; Ph.D., Yale Graduate School, 1876), the first African American ever to receive a Ph.D. in North America.

College of Medicine Professor Named Advisor to National Library of Medicine

Bailus Walker Jr., Ph.D., professor of environmental and occupational medicine in the College of Medicine, has been named senior science advisor (environmental health and medicine) to the National Library of Medicine. Located on the campus of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., it is the world's largest medical library with materials in all areas of biomedicine and health care.