Tag: Brown University
Honors for Four Black Women in Higher Education
Wanda Spurlock, Denise Ghartey, Bernadette Nwafor, and Ruth J. Simmons are the honorees.
How Race Impacts the Healthcare Debate
A new study shows that White Americans have different levels of support of healthcare reform depending on the race of the person they believed offered the proposal.
Two African American College Presidents Honored by the American Council on Education
Ruth Simmons of Brown University and Beverly Daniel Tatum of Spelman College were honored at the Women's Leadership Dinner at the annual meeting of the American Council on Education in Los Angeles.
Martin Puryear to Design Slavery Memorial at Brown University
The project will recognize the historic ties of Brown University's founders to the slave trade. The memorial will be located near the site of the university's earliest buildings, some of which were built with the help of slave labor.
Brown University Student Discovers a Lost Speech of Malcolm X
An audiotape of the 1961 speech that no one had heard for 50 years was found in the university's archives.
Jabbar Bennett Assumes Additional Duties at Brown University
He was named associate dean for diversity in the division of biology and medicine and director of the Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs at the Warren Alpert Medical School.
Brown University’s Newest Black Faculty
Chanelle Howe and Kym Moore are new assistant professors at Brown.
Brown University Study Finds Racial Disparity in Flu Shots for Nursing Home Patients
Black patients were more likely than white patients to refuse vaccinations.
Two Black Scholars Named Fellows at Stanford’s CCSRE
Cherene Sherrard-Johnson and Barrymoore Bogues will spend the year at the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity.
Ruth Simmons Stepping Down as President of Brown University
She will stay on at Brown to teach comparative literature and Africana studies.
