Notable Honors for Three Black Men With Ties to the Academic World
Patrick Cage of Chicago State University and Chinedum Osuji of Yale University are being honored by professional societies and mystery writer Walter Mosley is receiving an award from the City College of New York.
Jackson State University Names a Recital Hall to Honor Long-Time Music Professor
Jimmie James served on the staff at Jackson State University in Mississippi for 43 years, rising through the ranks to chair the department of music. The university honored his service by placing his name on a recital hall in the campus music center.
Four Black Scholars With Ties to Academia Win American Book Awards
The Before Columbus Foundation of Oakland, California is honoring Emily Raboteau of CCNY, Jonathan Scott Holloway of Yale, Sterling Plumpp of the University of Illinois, Chicago, and Jamaica Kincaid of Claremont McKenna College.
University of Nebraska Scholar Honored for Journalism Research
Dane Kiambi, an assistant professor of public relations at the University of Nebraska, received the Best Paper Award for Journalism Research from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.
John Brooks Slaughter Is Honored by the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering
Dr. Slaughter is professor of education and professor of engineering at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He is the former president of NACME and was chancellor of the University of Maryland and president of Occidental College.
Vassar College Professor Wins the Saroyan Prize for International Writing
Kiese Laymon is an associate professor of English at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. The Saroyan Prize is given every two years by the Stanford University Libraries and the William Soroyan Foundation.
Emory University Scholar to Receive the Lillian Smith Book Award
Bernard Lafayette Jr., the Distinguished Senior Scholar-in-Residence at the Candler School of Theology at Emory University, is being honored for his book about his time as leader of the Selma, Alabama, voting rights protests.
Four African Americans Presented With Prestigious Awards
The four honorees are Lynden A. Archer of Cornell University in New York, Gary L. LeRoy of Wright State University in Detroit, Jada Bussey-Jones of Emory University in Atlanta, and Derek Wilson of Prairie View A&M University in Texas.
Sierra Club Names Its New Award After a Texas Southern University Dean
The Sierra Club has announced the establishment of a new award that will honor an individual or a group that has done outstanding work in the area of environmental justice. The award will be named after Dr. Robert Bullard, one of the founders of the environmental justice movement.
Spelman College President Earns Highest Honor From the American Psychological Association
The citation for the award given to Beverly Daniel Tatum said that "you have engaged the very difficult subject of race relations in the United States, and the impact of such an environment on identity development for African Americans."
Vanderbilt University Honors Its First African American Administrator
Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, has announced that it is naming its newest residence hall in honor of Kelly Miller Smith, who served as assistant dean at the Vanderbilt Divinity School from 1969 until his death in 1984.
University of Georgia Scholar Honored for His Work on Climate Change
J. Marshall Shepherd, the UGA Athletic Association Professor in the Social Sciences at the University of Georgia, was named a Captain Planet Protector of the Earth by Ted Turner's Captain Planet Foundation.
University of Colorado Professor Wins PEN Open Book Award
Professor Ruth Ellen Kocher was honored for her collection of poems, domina Un/blued (Tupelo Press, 2013). She will receive the award, and a $5,000 cash prize, at a ceremony in New York City on September 29.
Victor R. McCrary Jr. Named a Fellow of the American Chemical Society
Dr. McCrary is vice president for research and economic development at Morgan State University. He is being honored for his research at AT&T Bell Laboratories, the National Institute of Standards, and the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University.
University of Kentucky Scholar Named Rhetorician of the Year
Adam J. Banks, professor in the department of writing, rhetoric, and digital studies in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Kentucky, was named the 2014 Rhetorician of the Year by the The Young Rhetoricians Conference.
Hampton University Professor Wins National Award for the Teaching of Science
Edison R. Fowlks, a professor of biology and director of the Biotechnology Laboratory at Hampton University in Virginia, will be honored this December by the American Society of Cell Biology.
University of Delaware Scholar Honored by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers
Babatunda A. Ogunnaike, dean of engineering at the University of Delaware, has been selected to receive the 2014 Eminent Chemical Engineer Award from the Minority Affairs Council of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.
Howard University’s William Spriggs Earns Honor From the NAACP
Dr. Spriggs is a professor of economics at Howard and also serves as chief economist for the AFL-CIO. He is the former assistant secretary for policy at the U.S. Department of Labor.
Isaac Crumbley to Be Honored by the Geological Society of America
Isaac J. Crumbley, associate vice president at Fort Valley State University in Georgia, will be honored for his efforts to open the geological sciences to minority students.
Ohio University Pays Tribute to Its African American President
The board of trustees of Ohio University in Athens produced a video tribute to President Roderick J. McDavis to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of his appointment as president of the university.
Three HBCU Executives Honored With Awards
The honorees are Julie D. Goodwin, general counsel at Morgan State University, William R. Harvey, president of Hampton University, and Glenda Baskin Glover, president of Tennessee State University.
Alva Ferdinand Wins Outstanding Dissertation Award
The assistant professor of public health at Texas A&M University, received the Outstanding Dissertation Award from AcademyHealth, the academic professional association for health services and health policy researchers.
Michael Drake Awarded the University of California’s Presidential Medal
Michael V. Drake, the outgoing chancellor of the University of California, Irvine, was awarded the Presidential Medal from University of California system's president Janet Napolitano. He will soon become president of Ohio State University.
University of California, Riverside Scholar Earns Major Literary Award
Nalo Hopkinson, associate professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside, is the recipient of the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.
Anita Allen Honored by the Electronic Privacy Information Center
Dr. Allen is vice provost for faculty at the University of Pennsylvania and the Henry R. Silverman Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at the university's law school. She received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the EPIC.
Oregon State Names Its Newest Dormitory in Honor of Its First Black Male Graduate
William Tebeau enrolled at what was then Oregon State College in 1943. He was not permitted to live on campus. He took a job tending the furnace at a fraternity house in return for a small room in the basement. He earned a degree in chemical engineering in 1948.
Georgia Tech to Honor Zimbabwe Human Rights Attorney Beatrice Mtetwa With $100,000 Prize
The Ivan Allen Jr. Prize for Social Courage recognizes "individuals who, by standing up for clear moral principles in the social arena, have positively affected public discourse at the risk of their own careers, livelihoods and even their lives."
New Prize to Honor African Poetry
The Glenna Luschei Prizewill be awarded annually to a collection of poetry published in the previous year by an African poet. The judge for this year's competition is Nigerian novelist and poet Chris Abani.
Notable Honors and Awards Relating to Blacks in Higher Education
Rosie Phillips Bingham of the University of Memphis had an award named in her honor. Cristal Truscott of Prairie View A&M University, Elias S. Siraj of Temple University, and the Africana studies program at Indiana University/Purdue University Indianapolis were also honored.
Beverly Daniel Tatum Elected to the American Philosophical Society
The American Philosophical Society was founded in 1743 by Benjamin Franklin. This year 33 new members were elected to the society. Of the 33 new members, it appears that only one is an African American.
Nathaniel Mackey Honored by the Poetry Foundation
Nathaniel Mackey, professor emeritus of literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has been named the winner of the 2014 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. The prize comes with a $100,000 award.
Mary Frances Berry Honored by the Organization of American Historians
Mary Frances Berry, the Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania was honored for "significantly enriched our understanding and appreciation of American history."
Jewell Parker Rhodes Wins the Jane Addams Children’s Book Award
Dr. Rhodes holds the Piper Endowed Chair and is a professor of English and the founding director of the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing at Arizona State University. She was honored for her novel Sugar.
Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Names an Award for a Black Scholar
Janice Joseph is a Distinguished Professor of Criminal Justice at the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. She is the first person of African descent and the first foreign-born individual to serve as president of the ACJS.
Two African American Professors Are the Recipients of Notable Awards
Patrice Jackson-Ayotunde received the Invention of the Year Award from the Office of Technology Commercialization at the University of Maryland and Shontavia Johnson of Drake Law School was honored by the International Trademark Association.
Tuskegee Flight Instructor Honored on U.S. Postage Stamp
Charles Alfred Anderson, the chief flight instructor of the aviation school of Tuskegee Institute in Alabama during World War II who died in 1996, has been honored with a U.S. postage stamp bearing his image.
