Robert Winn was named the Cancer Center Director of the Fox Chase Cancer Center at Temple University in Philadelphia. Dr. Winn has been serving as the Lipman Chair in Oncology and director of the Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is an expert in lung cancer and community-based healthcare research.
Dr. Winn earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Notre Dame in Indiana and his medical degree from the University of Michigan.
Chanita Hughes-Halbert has been named a Distinguished Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences in the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California. Dr. Hughes-Halbert, the Dr. Arthur and Priscilla Ulene Chair in Women’s Cancer, serves in several leadership roles at the university, including vice chair for research in preventative medicine and associate director for cancer equity in the Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center. She is known for her work in cancer prevention and minority health research.
An alumna of two HBCUs, Dr. Hughes-Halbert is a summa cum laude graduate of Hampton University in Virginia. She earned her master’s degree and Ph.D. from Howard University in Washington, D.C.
Caroline M. Kingori is a professor and vice provost for academic affairs at historically Black Hampton University in Virginia. Before joining the Hampton faculty, Dr. Kingori spent over a decade at Ohio University, where she served as associate dean for research and faculty affairs in the College of Health Sciences and Professions, interim director of the African studies program, and program coordinator for the master of public health degree program. As a scholar, Dr. Kingori studies behavioral and social determinants of health.
Dr. Kingori earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology and master of public health degree in behavioral health sciences from historically Black Morgan State University in Baltimore. She holds a Ph.D. in health behavior from Indiana University.
Lawrence Udeigwe was named director of integrative programs for the Analytics, Research, Creativity, and Humanities (ARCH) Innovation Exchange initiative at Manhattan University, where he teaches as a professor of mathematics. Dr. Udeigwe, a research affiliate in brain and cognitive sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is an interdisciplinary researcher whose work focuses on mathematical models of learning, perception, and neural systems and their connections to machine learning and artificial intelligence.
Dr. Udeigwe holds two bachelor’s degrees from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, a master’s degree from the University of Delaware, and a master’s degree and a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh.
