Honors for Two African American Educators

Angela Winstead, an associate professor of chemistry at Morgan State University in Baltimore, received the 2011 Henry McBay Outstanding Teacher award from the National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers.

Dr. Winstead has been on the Morgan State faculty since 2002. She is a graduate of Spelman College in Atlanta and holds a Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Dudley E. Flood, a retired educator and member of the University of North Carolina board of governors, was honored with the naming of an endowed chair in his honor in the department of criminal justice at Fayetteville State University. The endowed chair was made possible by a $500,000 donation from the C.D. Spangler Foundation.

Dr. Flood is the former associate state superintendent of the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction. He is a graduate of North Carolina Central University and holds a master’s degree from East Carolina University and a doctorate from Duke University.

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