Faculty

Two Black Women in New Teaching Roles

Nobel Peach Prize winner Leymah Gbowee was named the inaugural Distinguished Fellow in Social Justice at Barnard College. Stacy Finley was hired to the biomedical engineering faculty at the University of Southern California.

Faculty at Harris-Stowe State University Vote to Unionize

Nearly four out of every five faculty members participating in the election voted to join the union. The historically Black educational institution is the first university in Missouri to vote in a union for faculty members.

Two Black Scholars in New Teaching Roles

LaFleur Stephens will join the Princeton faculty next summer as an assistant professor of politics. Chapurukha Kusimba is the new chair of the department of anthropology at American University in Washington, D.C.

Two Black Scholars Join the Sickle Cell Disease Research Team at the University of Pittsburgh

The University of Pittsburgh has announced the addition of two scholars to its Sickle Cell Disease Program. Laura De Castro was a professor of hematology at Duke University and Solomon Ofori-Acquah was a professor of pediatrics at Emory University.

Two Black Women in New Teaching Roles

L. Ebony Boulware was appointed chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine at Duke University. Kemba Clapp is a new assistant professor of radiology at the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine.

Two African Americans Join the Faculty at Lehigh University

Lehigh University, the highly rated national university in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, has 27 new faculty members on campus this fall. Of the 27 new appointees, two are African Americans, Monica R. Miller and Darius Omar Williams.

Two Black Scholars in New Teaching Roles

Eno E. Ebong is a new assistant professor of chemical engineering at Northeastern University in Boston and Lewis Gordon of the University of Connecticut was named the Nelson Mandela Visiting Professor at Rhodes University in South Africa.

Princeton Looks to Enhance Campus Diversity

Princeton has approved a new plan to increase diversity throughout the campus community. The new plan will focus on diversity initiatives relating to graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty, and senior administrators.

Two Black Scholars in New Teaching Posts

Teresa I. Francis was named chair of the department of law and justice at the Pierce County campus of Central Washington University and Gilbert Ayuk was hired as an instructor in physics at Fulton Montgomery Community College.

Regina Benjamin Named to Endowed Chair at Xavier University

Regina Benjamin, the former surgeon general of the United States, has been appointed the inaugural NOLA.com/Times Picayune Endowed Chair in Public Health at Xavier University of Louisiana.

Three Black Men Named to Teaching Posts

Henry N. Young was appointed to an endowed chair at the University of Georgia College of Pharmacy. Chapurukha Kusimba was named chair of the anthropology department at American University and Ronald Dellums will be teaching at Howard University.

A Trio of Black Scholars in New Teaching Posts

Melody Howard-Clark joins the faculty at Lee University in Cleveland, Tennessee. Fred Walumbwa moves from Arizona State University to Florida International University and Derek S. Hicks was appointed assistant professor at the Wake Forest University School of Divinity.

Two Black Scholars Taking on New Faculty Roles

Catherine R. Bazemore-Walker is a new tenured associate professor of chemistry at Winston-Salem State University in North Carolina and James L. Moore III was named Distinguished Professor of Urban Education at Ohio State University.

Co-Inventor of the Personal Computer to Join the University of Tennessee Faculty

Mark Dean, who holds three of the nine patents associated with the first PC, was named the John Fisher Distinguished Professor in the department of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.

Dartmouth College Rescinds Appointment of Malawi Bishop

In July, Dartmouth College announced that James Tengatenga has been appointed dean of the William Jewett Tucker Foundation at the college. After Dr. Tengatenga's past comments on homosexuality came to light, the college has decided not to go forward with the appointment.

Two African American Scholars Named to Endowed Chairs

Allyson L. Watson was named to an endowed chair in urban education at Northeastern State University in Oklahoma and Joe M. Ricks Jr. was promoted to a named chair in the Division of Business at Xavier University in New Orleans.

Two Black Scholars in New Teaching Roles

Cristal C. Truscott was named interim chair of the department of music and theater at Prairie View A&M University in Texas. Muhammad Pate, the former minister of state for health in Nigeria will be teaching with the Global Health Initiative at Duke University.

Three Black Faculty Members Taking on New Roles

Lucas Morel was named to an endowed chair at Washington and Lee University. T. Elon Dancy II was promoted to associate professor and granted tenure at the University of Oklahoma and Maurice Jackson of Georgetown University was named chair of a government commission.

Two Black Scholars in New Faculty Roles

Barbara Washington was named interim chair of the department of adolescent, career, and special education at Murray State University in Kentucky and E. Dale Abel was named to an endowed chair in diabetes research at the Carver College of Medicine at the University of Iowa.

Two Black Scholars in New Teaching Roles

Rodney T. Whitaker, professor in the College of Music, was promoted to the rank of University Distinguished Professor at Michigan State University. Metta Sama was named an assistant professor of creative writing at Salem College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
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