Three African Americans at Leading Universities Receive Prestigious Honors

Roland G. Fryer Jr., the Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University, has been selected to receive the John Bates Clark Young Economist Award from the American Economic Association. Professor Fryer, the youngest African American to be awarded tenure at Harvard, was honored for “innovative and creative research contributions that have deepened our understanding of the sources, magnitude, and persistence of U.S. racial inequality.”

A magna cum laude graduate of the University of Texas at Arlington, Professor Fryer holds a Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University.

averyStephen M. Avery, an assistant professor in the department of radiation oncology and director of the medical physics program at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, was honored with election as a fellow of the American Association of Physicists.

Dr. Avery is a graduate of Millersville University of Pennsylvania. He holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in experimental nuclear physics from Hampton University in Virginia.

iris_outlawIris Outlaw, director of multicultural student programs and services at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, received the Exemplary Award for Public Service from the American Association of Blacks in Higher Education. She is the treasurer and vice president for administration at the association.

Outlaw is a graduate of Indiana University in Bloomington. She holds a master’s degree from the University of Notre Dame.

Related Articles

Leave a Reply

Get the JBHE Weekly Bulletin

Receive our weekly email newsletter delivered to your inbox

Latest News

Higher Education Gifts or Grants of Interest to African Americans

Here is this week’s news of grants or gifts to historically Black colleges and universities or for programs of particular interest to African Americans in higher education.

New Online Library for the Study of Philanthropy and Black Churches

The new Philanthropy and the Black Church digital collection of the Lake Institute on Faith and Giving, an organization founded by the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at Indiana University, and the Center for the Church and the Black Experience at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, aims to provide resources for Black churches and other philanthropic institutions to partner together on strategic initiatives.

Online Articles That May Be of Interest to JBHE Readers

Each week, JBHE will provide links to online articles that may be of interest to our readers. Here are this week’s selections.

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Establishes New Research Center to Address Segregation in Local Area

The new Center for Equity Practice and Planning Justice at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee aims to study the history of racial segregation in the local area and advance racially equitable practices in urban planning.

Featured Jobs