New Teaching Assignments for Two Black Scholars

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture PortraitsMartha Mamo was appointed the Aaron Douglas/John E. Weaver Professor of Agronomy and Horticulture at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Professor Mamo holds a bachelor’s degree in chemistry and a master’s degree in soil science from the University of Alabama at Huntsville. She earned a Ph.D. in soil science at the University of Minnesota.

milton-colemanMilton Coleman, the former senior editor at The Washington Post, will spend the fall 2016 semester as the Edith Kinney Gaylord Visiting Professor of Journalism Ethics in the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communications at Arizona State University. Coleman retired from the Post in 2012 and currently serves as ombudsperson for the Corporation of Public Broadcasting.

Coleman is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He was hired by the Post in 1976 as a reporter covering government and politics.

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