Honors & Awards

MIT’s Wesley Harris Is Honored for Leadership in Advocating for Minorities in STEM Fields

He has been selected to receive the 2012 President's Award from the National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers.

Freeman Hrabowski to Receive the Heinz Award

The president of the University of Maryland Baltimore County will be honored for his work to increase the number of Black and other minority students who seek degrees in science and engineering.

Two African Americans Earn Distinguished Honors

Annette Yancy will be honored by the National Academic Advising Association and James Owens will have an award named in his honor at Auburn University.

Katina Walton Honored With a National Poetry Award

A doctoral candidate in reading and literacy at Alabama A&M University, she was honored for her book She Speaks.

Two Black Women Honored by the University of Wisconsin

Tanya Lynn Brito and Dawn Bryant Crim will be honored with the Outstanding Women of Color Award.

Arizona State University Honors Its First Black Football Player

In 1937 Emerson Harvey was the first Black player at ASU. His presence on the football team at the university served to play a major role in the racial integration of college sports in the southwest.

A Trio of African American Award Winners

Kisha Daniels of North Carolina Central University, Gregory Robinson of the University of Georgia, and Terry Woodward of Jackson State University are honored with prestigious awards.

Yolanda Edwards Honored for Innovative Curriculum Development in Rehabilitation Counseling

She is an associate professor of rehabilitation counseling in the School of Education at Winston-Salem State University in North Carolina.

Novelist Tayari Jones Honored by the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation

Professor Jones teaches in the master of fine arts program at the Newark campus of Rutgers University.

Bowdoin Professor Wins Book Award From the New York State Historical Association

Brian J. Purnell is an assistant professor of Africana studies. His book examines the early days of the civil rights movement in Brooklyn.

Two Young Black Male Scholars Win Prestigious Awards

Donald Mitchell Jr. wins an award for his doctoral research at the University of Minnesota and Jerell Blakely is honored with a fellowship from the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University.

Posthumous Honor for the University of Iowa’s First Black Faculty Member

The late Philip G. Hubbard, who served as vice president and professor of engineering at the University of Iowa, was inducted into the Iowa African American Hall of Fame.

Honors for a Trio of African American Educators

Patricia Lowrie of Michigan State, Denisha Hendricks of Kentucky State, and William B. McLeod, former chancellor of Fayetteville State, are the honorees.

Pauli Murray Named a Saint of the Episcopal Church

In 1938, she mounted an unsuccessful legal effort to gain admission to the all-white University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Three Black Scholars Honored With Prestigious Awards

The honorees are Melvin Shipp of Ohio State, G. Reginald Daniel of the University of California Santa Barbara, and Lekan Oguntoyinbo of South Dakota State.

University of Georgia Names Leadership Academy After Longtime Administrator

Vivian H. Fisher was an administrator for 30 years, who retired in 2008 as associate vice president for public service and outreach.

Honors for Two Black Scholars

Tonea Stewart of Alabama State University and Babatunde Ogunnaike of the University of Delaware receive prestigious honors.

Creighton University Professor Is the Inaugural Recipient of the Louis Sullivan Leadership Award

Sade Kosoko-Lasaki, an ophthalmologist and surgeon, was honored by the American Association of Physician Specialists.

Two Black Women Academics Honored With Prestigious Awards

Valorie McAlpin of the University of North Carolina Charlotte and Margaret Young of Elizabeth City State University are the honorees.

Honors for Two African American Educators

Angela Winstead of Morgan State University receives a teaching award for Black chemists and an endowed chair at Fayetteville State University honors Dudley Flood.
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