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Who’s Bad? Howard University Alum Marci Rodgers, a True Thriller as ‘Michael’ Movie Costume Designer

Howard Alumna Marci Rodgers served as costume designer for “Michael,” the most successful biopic of all time.

Jul 16, 2026 8 minutes

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Howard University’s School of Business and Operation Capital City Launch Accelerator Program for Justice-Impacted Entrepreneurs

Jul 10, 2026 6 minutes

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Legacy and Lineage

The Howard University Student-Led Bus Protest that Challenged Virginia’s Jim Crow Laws

Jun 25, 2026 5 minutes

Dr. Smith and Dr. Rawat

Epiphanies, Discovery, and Research

Howard University Engineering Professors Recognized as Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the World’s Largest Scientific Society

May 29, 2026 5 minutes

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*Accolades

Dean Andrea A. Hayes Dixon, MD, Appointed Chair of the Scientific Management Review Board

Sep 10, 2024 2 minutes

2024-2025 award winner Camille Warner

*Accolades

Camille Warner Receives 2024-2025 Dr. Winslow Sargeant Doctoral Award

Sep 4, 2024 3 minutes

*Research

Howard University Selected to Participate in $160M EPA Project to Help Reduce Climate Pollution from Construction Materials Manufacturing

Jul 30, 2024 3 minutes

Lyndsie Whitehead and Virgil Parker

*Accolades

Alumnus Virgil Parker (B.A. ’21), Ph.D. Candidate Lyndsie Whitehead Named 2024 Fulbright Alumni Ambassadors

Jul 16, 2024 5 minutes

Dr. Mickey T. Thomas

*In Your Words

How the Pipe Organ Shaped Black Music

Jun 17, 2024 4 minutes

Howard and Drexel PIs Carlton Waterhouse, Nea Maloo, Janelle Burke and Mathy Stanislaus.

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Howard University Receives DOE HBCU Clean Energy Education Prize

Jun 14, 2024 4 minutes

Sonya Smith Appointed to Lead Howard University’s Research Institute on Tactical Autonomy Washington, D.C. - Howard University announced that Sonya Smith, Ph.D., has been appointed to serve as executive director of the University’s Research Institute Autonomy (RITA). Also referred to as the University Affiliated Research Center, or UARC, the University’s RITA is only one of 15 centers in the United States. Smith is no stranger to the University, joining as faculty in 1995 after becoming the fi

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Sonya Smith Appointed to Lead Howard University’s Research Institute for Tactical Autonomy

Jun 12, 2024 3 minutes

Howard University College of Engineering and Architecture

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Howard University College of Engineering and Architecture Receives $5M Record-Setting Gift from Autodesk

Jun 5, 2024 5 minutes

Lisa A. Crooms-Robinson

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Howard University School of Law’s Lisa Crooms-Robinson Named Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellow

May 28, 2024 3 minutes

Teresa Redd and Thomas Morris of Howard University

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CETLA Founder Teresa Redd’s Commitment to Cultivating a Culture of Learning

Apr 19, 2024 3 minutes