Category : Education

- 1 week ago

Four Black Students Who Have Been Awarded Rhodes Scholarships

Recently, the Rhodes Trust announced the 32 American winners of Rhodes Scholarships for graduate study at Oxford University in England. Rhodes Scholarships provide all expenses for two or three years of study at the University of Oxford in England an...

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Two Black Scholars Appointed to Endowed Professorships

John Thabiti Willis has been named the inaugural Kesho Scott Endowed Chair in African Diaspora Studies at Grinnell College in Iowa. He comes to his new role from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, where he is an associate professor of history...

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In Memoriam: Nathan Howard Cook, 1939-2024

Nathan Howard Cook, longtime professor and administrator at historically Black Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Missouri, passed away on November 1. He was 85 years old. Dr. Cook began his career in education with teaching appointments at Oklaho...

- 2 weeks ago

NASA Awards Grants to Enhance STEM Education at Three HBCUs

In partnership with the National Science Foundation, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Minority University Research and Education Project (MUREP) has recently awarded a total of $7.2 million in grant funding to six minority-se...