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Professor Paula McClain of Duke University to Lead the Midwest Political Science Association
Paula D. McClain, professor of political science and public policy and dean of the Graduate School at Duke University, was named president-elect of the Midwest Political Science Association.
New Film Honors the First Black Woman to Earn a Ph.D. at Duke University
In 1967 Ida Stephens Owens received a Ph.D. in physiology from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. She went on to conduct important research on drug biotransformation at the National Institutes of Health.
Linda Burton Named to Dean Post at Trinity College of Duke University
Dr. Burton is the James B. Duke Professor of Sociology at Duke University. She came to Duke in 2006 after teaching for 22 years at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
Three African Americans Named to New Administrative Positions
The new appointees are George Koonce at Marian University in Wisconsin, Katherine Phillips at Columbia Business School, and Stephanie Helms Pickett at Duke University.
Higher Education Grants of Interest to African Americans
Here is this week’s news of grants to historically Black colleges and universities or for programs of particular interest to African Americans in higher education.
Duke University Creates Task Force on Faculty Diversity
The Academic Council at Duke University has established a diversity task force that will formulate a diversity plan for the university for the next decade.
Duke University Promotes a Two-Way African Exchange
Two years ago, Duke University launched its Africa Initiative to increase opportunities for faculty and students in Africa but also to "Africanize" its Durham campus.
Duke University Exhibits a Copy of the Haitian Declaration of Independence
Duke University has placed on display an original handwritten copy of the Haitian Declaration of Independence. It was probably written by a Haitian who was listening to a public reading of the declaration.
Harvard’s New Group of W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute Fellows
Black scholars who are among the new group of fellows are Christopher Emdin, Shose Kessi, Achille Mbembe, Mark Anthony Neal, Wole Soyinka, and Deborah Willis.
Four North Carolina Universities Examine German/African American Cultural Exchanges
Four universities in North Carolina are partnering to examine the intersections of African American and German culture in the twentieth century. The semester-long project is entitled "From Harlem to Hamburg."
Major Program to Educate the Next Generation of African Leaders Is Underway
The first students in the MasterCard Foundation Scholars Program have completed their first semesters at U.S. colleges and universities. Over the next decade 15,000 students, many from Africa, will participate.
Study Finds Racial Disparity in Prices Paid for Similar Homes
In comparing transactions for similar homes in the same neighborhoods, the data shows that Blacks spent between 3 percent and 4 percent more than Whites.
In Memoriam: Benjamin F. Ward, 1948-2013
After teaching at Yale for seven years, Dr. Ward joined the Duke faculty in 1980. In addition to philosophy, he taught courses in German studies, Arabic, and comparative literature.
Duke Professor Calls for Boycott of Kanye West Tour Merchandise
Professor William Darity has called for a boycott of merchandise being marketed in connection with Kanye West's Yeezus Tour. Some of the items for sale have depictions of the Confederate battle flag.
Duke Art Historian Honored by the Smithsonian Institution
Richard J. Powell received the Lawrence A. Fleischman Award for Scholarly Excellence in the Field of American Art History from Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution.
Duke University Scholar Wins Anthropology Award
Lee D. Baker, professor of cultural anthropology at Duke, has been selected to receive the Prize for Distinguished Achievement in the Critical Study of North America by the Society for the Anthropology on North America.
William B. Bynum Jr. Named President at Mississippi Valley State University
Dr. Bynum, who holds a Ph.D. in sociology from Duke University, has been serving as vice president for enrollment management and student services at Morehouse College in Atlanta.
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.
Study Led by Duke Cardiologist Finds Racial Gap in Hospitalizations Following Heart Failure
After accounting for differences between patients relating to their health at the start of the study, researchers found that for patients who survived heart failure, Blacks were 58 percent more likely than Whites to be hospitalized for complications.
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.
Duke University Completes Digitalization of Eight Civil Rights Collections
The Content, Context, and Capacity Project is a joint effort of Duke University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina Central University, and North Carolina State University. When the project is completed next year, more than 350,000 documents will have been digitized.
Eight African Americans Taking on New Administrative Roles in Higher Education
The new appointees are Yvette Underfue Murph, Roger Sidje, Tysus D. Jackson, Keisha Williams, Lee H. Melvin, Wilbur L. Walters Jr., Curtis Campbell, and Victor K. Wilson.
Higher Education Grants of Interest to African-Americans
Here is this week’s news of grants to historically Black colleges and universities or for programs of particular interest to African Americans in higher education.
Lee D. Baker Reappointed to a New Term as Dean of Academic Affairs at Duke
Lee D. Baker, a professor of cultural anthropology, sociology, and African and African American studies at Duke University, has been reappointed to a new term as dean of academic affairs at Duke’s Trinity College. He also was reappointed associate vice provost for undergraduate education.
Duke University to House Hate Group Archives of the Southern Poverty Law Center
The collection includes more than 90 boxes of materials that include periodicals, pamphlets, flyers, and other documents that hate groups in the United States have sent to members and recruits over the past 30 years.
In Memoriam: Antronette Yancey, 1957-2013
A professor of public health at the University of California at Los Angeles, she was a leading advocate of brief periods of exercise throughout the day for schoolchildren and office workers. As an undergraduate, she played varsity basketball at Northwestern University.
University Study Examines Why Blacks Pay More for Housing Than Whites
The study of more than 2 million home sales from 1990 to 2008 in four major metropolitan areas studied prices by Blacks and Whites of comparable homes in the same neighborhoods. Blacks, on average, paid 3.5 percent more.
Duke’s Efforts to Diversify Its Faculty Over the Past Quarter-Century
From 1993 to today the number of Blacks teaching at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, has increased from 44 to 138. Today, Blacks are 4.25 percent of the university's total faculty.
Two African Americans Awarded Gilliam Fellowships
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute has chosen nine students for its 2013 Gilliam Fellowships for Advanced Study. The students receive $46,500 per year, for up to four years, for doctoral studies in the life sciences. Two of nine fellows are African Americans.
1805 Bill of Sale for Three Slaves Donated to Duke University
The bill of sale lists three slaves, Elizabeth, a 20-year-old woman and her daughter Harriet who was six months old. A third slave Delilah, aged 14, was also included. The three slaves were sold for a total of $493.
Duke University Study Finds Racial Slurs Remain Common in American Workplaces
The study found that many White men are reluctant to object to racist slurs used by other members of their racial group. The authors of the study state that those who failed to speak up when confronted with racial slurs tended to believe in their own group's social dominance.
Honors and Awards for African Americans in Higher Education
Andrea Barnwell Brownlee of Spelman College is honored by the High Museum of Art. Duke University gives a first book award in photography to Gerald Gaskin and Coppin State University honors an alumnus who went on to serve as police commissioner in Baltimore.
The Higher Education of the Newest Black U.S. Senator
William "Mo" Cowan, a graduate of Duke University and the Northeastern University School of Law, will serve in the U.S. Senate until a special election is held to determine who will fill out the term of Senator John Kerry, who left Capitol Hill to become U.S. Secretary of State.
Higher Education Grants of Interest to African-Americans
Here is this week’s news of grants to historically Black colleges and universities or for programs of particular interest to African Americans in higher education.
Duke University to Commemorate the 50th Anniversary of Its Racial Integration
The nine-month celebration, entitled "Celebrating the Past, Charting the Future: Commemorating 50 Years of Black Students at Duke," will begin in January with a reception at the Nasher Museum of Art.
