Honors & Awards

University of Louisville Honors Journalist Eugene Robinson

Eugene Robinson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who spent much of his career at the Washington Post, has been selected to receive the 2014 Brandeis Medal from the University of Louisville School of Law.

Honors for Two African Americans in Higher Education

Shauna Carlisle of the University of Washington-Bothell was honored by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. Georgetown University is naming its new athletics facility after John R. Thompson Jr.

Medgar Evers College Professor Honored by the Government of Montserrat

George Irish, a professor at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn, has been selected to receive the Order of Excellence from the government of the island nation of Montserrat in the Caribbean.

Honors for Two African American Faculty Members

Michael Nduati of the University of California Riverside received a New Faculty Scholar Award and Howard Fuller of Marquette University was named an "Unsung Hero of the Civil Rights Movement."

New Arts Hall at the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools to Honor Gordon Parks

The George Lucas Family Foundation has pledged to donate $25 million to the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools for a new arts hall. At George Lucas' request, the building will be named to honor Gordon Parks.

Columbia University Awards the Kennedy Prize for Drama to Dominque Morisseau

The 2014 Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama Inspired by American History was awarded by Columbia University to Dominique Morisseau for her play Detroit '67.

NYU Scholar Lyle Ashton Harris Selected to Win the David C. Driskell Prize

Lyle Ashton Harris was chosen as the winner of the 2014 David C. Driskell Prize, given to an early career scholar or artist who has made an original and important contribution to the field of African American art or art history.

Honors for Two African American Professors

Ruth Wilson Gilmore of the City University of New York was honored by the Association of American Geographers and Michelle Albert of Howard University received the Red Dress Award from Women's Day and the American Heart Association.

Sylvester James Gates Jr. Named the 2014 Scientist of the Year

Dr. Gates, the John S. Toll Professor of Physics and the director of the Center for String and Particle Theory at the University of Maryland College Park, is being honored by the Harvard Foundation.

Honors for Two African American Scholars

Leo E. Morton, chancellor of the University of Missouri-Kansas City and Donald Mitchell Jr., assistant professor of higher education at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, Michigan, are the honorees.

The Honors Keep Coming for Natasha Trethewey

The Robert W. Woodruff Professor of English and Creative Writing at Emory University in Atlanta and poet laureate of the United States received the 2014 William Meredith Award for Poetry.

Harvard Pioneer Chosen for Induction Into the National College Baseball Hall of Fame

William Clarence Matthews, a member of the Class of 1905 at Harvard University, led the university's baseball team in batting for three straight seasons. In 1905 he batted .400 and stole 22 bases.

University of Arkansas Little Rock Scholar Honored by Gallaudet University

Dr. Glenn Anderson is a 1982 graduate of Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., an educational institution for the deaf and hearing impaired. He was the first African American graduate of Galluadet to earn a doctorate.

Honors for Two African American Scholars

David H. Jackson, a professor at Florida A&M University won an award from the American Historical Association and Angela Glover Blackwell was honored by Brandeis University.

Honors for Four Black Scholars

The honorees are Tiffany Washington of the University of Georgia, Karin Edwards of Three Rivers Community College, Eric Sheppard of Hampton University, and Oluwatoni Aluko of Meharry Medical College.

New Award-Winning Film Documents Stories of English Women Who Married Black GIs

Valerie Hill-Jackson, clinical associate professor in the department of teaching, learning, and culture at Texas A&M University, has won the 2013 Upton Sinclair Award for her new film documentary.

Appalachian State University Honors an Early Black Faculty Member

Jesse C. Jackson, one of the first African American faculty members at Appalachian State, is the first honoree to have his or her portrait hung in a Hall of Fame for alumni and faculty of the Reich College of Education.

Two African American Professors Honored With Awards From National Organizations

Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan, professor of religion at the Shaw University, was honored by the Society of Biblical Literature and William Lawson, professor at Howard University, will receive an award from the American Psychiatric Foundation.

Howard University Scholar Honored by the Congressional Black Caucus

Goulda Downer, an assistant professor of medicine, received the 2013 Health Brain Trust Leadership in Advocacy Award for her effort to train a clinical workforce to combat HIV/AIDS.

Four Colleges and Universities Honored for Promoting Access for Minority Students

The inaugural Champions of Access and Success Award winners are Fayetteville State University, Florida State University, California State University, Northridge and Miami Dade College.
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