| Akunna Ezinwa Enwereuzor,
a junior economics major from Somerset, N.J., has passed the
U.S. Foreign Service Oral Examination, thereby qualifying
fully for diplomatic service, having earlier passed the
Written Exam. Admitted to Howard as a National Achievement
Scholar, Ms. Enwereuzor has been a Student Ambassador, a
Representative in the UNA-USA Summit last summer, and is
President of the Abram Harris Economics Society. She also is a
Patricia Roberts Harris Public Affairs Fellow.
As a sophomore, Akunna won the Foreign Affairs Fellowship
offered by the U.S. State Department and the Woodrow Wilson
Foundation, thereby qualifying for full scholarship support
through her remaining college years and the first graduate
degree. Under this plan, valued at over $250,000, she also
will spend two summers abroad during the next four years. At
the end of this course of study, she will join the diplomatic
service, for which her performance on the two examinations
already qualify her for full, unrestricted admission. She is
the second Howard University Student to pass the Oral this
year. The first was Hassan Adeeb.
MARIAMA ORANGE, has
become a published author as a result of the internship she
served last summer.
The prestigious New York based magazine, Scientific
American, where the young electrical engineering student
was a Harris Intern, has run one of her articles in the
November 2001 issue. In her piece, titled "No Power to
the People", Ms. Orange argues that "By squeezing
between existing stations in the FM bank, low-power [radio]
stations would provide local access and diversity to airwaves
now dominated by media conglomerates." The Federal
Communications Commission, under the leadership of its then
chairman, William Kennard, authorized in January 2000 the
creation of an exclusively noncommercial low-power FM (LPFM)
radio service.
A master's degree candidate at Howard, Ms. Orange says she
had a "great" experience as a Harris Fellow at the
Scientific American, where she updated news indexes, conducted
research ("fact check"), and wrote several articles,
including a book review.
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