Honors & Awards

Two Black Scholars Slated to Win Prestigious Awards

Harriet Hamilton will be honored by the National Association for Girls and Women in Sports and Osei K. Darkwa by the World Education Congress.

Emory Professor Wins Three Book Awards

Lawrence P. Jackson is honored for his book The Indignant Generation.

A Black Scholar Awarded the National Humanities Medal

Kwame Anthony Appiah was awarded the medal by President Obama at a White House ceremony.

Two African American Women Receive Honorary Degrees from the University of Alicante in Spain

Professors Linda Darling-Hammond of Stanford and Gloria Ladson-Billings of the University of Wisconsin are among the first three recipients of honorary degrees in education from the University of Alicante.

Three African American Men Honored With Prestigious Awards

Keith W. McIntosh of Pima County Community College, Cedric Gathings of Mississippi State, and Roland Smith of Rice University, are the honorees.

Marilyn Nelson to Receive the Frost Medal from the Poetry Society of America

She taught in the English department at the University of Connecticut from 1978 to 2002 and is the former poet laureate of Connecticut.

Two Howard University Students Awarded Luard Scholarships

They will spend their junior year abroad studying in the United Kingdom.

Honors for African Americans in Higher Education

Here are some notable awards and honors for African American scholars.

Vanderbilt University Professor Wins Outstanding Book Award

H. Richard Milner IV is being honored by the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education.

Kansas State Scholar Named Chief of African Village

Myra Gordon is associate provost for diversity at Kansas State and now a chief of the Nigerian village of Alayi.

Honors for Four African American College Officials

Brandon Brown, Zina McGee, Roderick McDavis, and Rosie Phillips Bingham win prestigious awards.

Shirley Ann Jackson to Be Honored by the AAAS

The president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will be given an award at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Prestigious Awards for Three Black Scholars

Sade Kosoko-Lasaki, Gloria Boutte, and Sulayman Nyang are honored by their universities.

University of Washington Honors Its First African American Senior Administrator

The late Samuel E. Kelly was named vice president for minority affairs in 1970.

Twila Perry Honored by the Association of American Law Schools

She is a professor and the Alexander T. Waugh Scholar at the Rutgers University School of Law in Newark, New Jersey.

Dawn Wright Honored by the Association of American Geographers

She is affectionately known on the campus of Oregon State University as "Deepsea Dawn."

Three African American Women Are Rewarded for Inspiring Their Students

The Black women are among 15 honorees of the Gail McKnight Beckman Trust.

Two African American Women Slated to Receive Prestigious Awards

Bevlee Watford of Virginia Tech and Jacqueline Jones-Triche of Tuskegee University will be honored.

Amherst College Graduate Wins Rhodes Scholarship

Sebabatso Manoeli is one of 10 Rhodes winners from the southern Africa region.

An Honor for a Denver Lawyer Who Founded Law School Scholarship Fund

Gary M. Jackson was selected to receive the highest honor bestowed by the Colorado Bar Association.
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