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Faculty & Staff

Restoring a Ruptured Relationship

Restoring a Ruptured RelationshipBarnard College’s Caryl Phillips’ senior english seminar focuses on broken international connections and culminates with a trans-Atlantic journey  By Crystal L. KeelsMillions of African people who were captured, kidnapped and shackled for sale as part of the trans-Atlantic slave trade first passed through Cape Coast Castle in Ghana, West Africa. They stepped […]

November 3, 2004

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In Memoriam

Walter H. Annenberg — businessman; statesman; publisher; philanthropist, The Annenberg FoundationArthur Ashe — tennis legend; educator; social activist; organizer, Artists and Athletes Against Apartheid Dr. Marguerite Ross Barnett — educator; political scientist; administrator; first woman and first African American president, University of Houston Dr. Ernest Boyer Sr. — educator; scholar; president, Carnegie Foundation for the […]

June 16, 2004

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Smith College Graduates Country’s First All-Female Class of Engineers

Smith College Graduates Country’s First All-Female Class of Engineers NORTHAMPTON, Mass.  Amid increasing calls to bolster the nation’s scientific literacy and enhance its high-tech work force, a pioneering and much watched engineering program has just produced its first graduates.Despite the program’s short history, the newly minted engineers — all women — are weighing significant career […]

June 2, 2004

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Pace University Scholar Wins Grant to Edit Fugitive Slave Papers

Pace University Scholar Wins Grant to Edit Fugitive Slave PapersNEW YORKHarriet Jacobs (1813-1897), the fugitive slave who wrote the landmark memoir Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself, is the only African American woman held in slavery whose papers are known to exist. Fifteen years ago, against the prevailing judgment, Dr. […]

April 21, 2004

Faculty & Staff

Faculty Members Weigh In on the Gender Divide in Academia

Faculty Members Weigh In on the Gender Divide in AcademiaIn 2001, a roundtable on gender disparities for female professors in higher education was held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The focus of the roundtable was “how best to ensure women professors experience the same opportunities, recognition and rewards as their male counterparts.” Some three […]

March 24, 2004

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Research Schools Work to Improve

By Ronald RoachCAMBRIDGE, Mass.Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of Wisconsin have launched the Education Arcade, an initiative that seeks to transform the way video and computer games are used in the classroom.Led by MIT’s Comparative Media Studies program (CMS) and the University of Wisconsin’s School of Education, the Education […]

December 3, 2003

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Harvard’s New Chapter in Black Studies

Harvard’s New Chapter in Black StudiesA neglected African studies program finally gets a departmental home By Ronald RoachFrom afar, it seemed that Afro-American studies at Harvard had taken a nasty tumble when two of its best-known scholars announced their resignations in early 2002, and its venerable chairman, Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr., let it be […]

October 8, 2003

Students

Pfizer Gift Creates Scholarship in Minority Medical Journalism

Pfizer Gift Creates Scholarship in Minority Medical Journalism CHAPEL HILL, N.C. The University of North Carolina School of Journalism and Mass Communication has received a $100,000 gift to create a new graduate scholarship designed to improve media coverage of minority health issues. The gift, from the Pfizer Medical Humanities Initiative, will establish the Pfizer Minority […]

July 2, 2003

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Venturing Into Computational Humanities

Venturing Into Computational HumanitiesNew field seeks to bring advanced computing to humanities, social science researchBy Ronald Roach It’s natural to expect that a significant degree of contemporary scientific discoveries stem from the application of high-performance computing and supercomputers to complex problems. Given that high-performance computing has exclusively been serving science for some time, a California-based […]

February 26, 2003

HBCUs

In Celebration Of the 100th Anniversary of The Souls Of Black Folk

In Celebration Of the 100th Anniversary of The Souls Of Black Folk ¦ Cleveland State University, in partnership with 12 community organizations, presents “The Soul of W.E.B. Du Bois: Celebrating the Genius of an American Scholar,” a three-month citywide celebration of the famous civil rights activist and writer. The celebration kicks off during Black History […]

February 12, 2003

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World Class Educator

World Class EducatorGrant Richard ParkerTitle: Assistant Professor of Classical Studies, Duke University, Durham, N.C.Education: Ph.D., Classical Philology, Princeton University; M.A., Latin, University of Cape Town; B.A., Latin, University of Cape Town Age: 35In the last years of apartheid rule in South Africa, Grant Richard Parker, a native of Cape Town, had a burning ambition to […]

January 1, 2003

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Web Site Presents Visual Record Of the Atlantic Slave Trade

Web Site Presents Visual Record Of the Atlantic Slave TradeBy Ronald Roach CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.More than 800 images will comprise a visual gallery documenting the Atlantic slave trade and slavery in the Americas in a Web site maintained by the University of Virginia and the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. Visitors to the Web site, , […]

November 20, 2002