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Dr. Sandra Jeter

Problem Solving: Howard's Project PRESS Fellows Provide Critical Social Work in D.C. Schools

Through Project PRESS, Howard students spend a year working in D.C. K-12 schools, with the goal of becoming permanent social workers

May 16, 2025 5 minutes

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Dr. Tonija Hope and Justin Hansford Among Howard Employees and Alumni Named in Washingtonian Magazine’s ‘Most Influential’ of 2025

May 15, 2025 6 minutes

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LeVar Burton Celebrates Howard’s Class of 2025 as Heirs to History

May 10, 2025 4 minutes

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Honorary Degree Designee Natasha Trethewey: A Message of ‘Carrying On’ Through Loss and Letters

May 7, 2025 4 minutes

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Jun 5, 2024 5 minutes

Lisa A. Crooms-Robinson

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

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

Apr 19, 2024 3 minutes

Howard University Celebrates Spotify and Nikole Hannah-Jones' 1619 The College Edition stories Source: Latrel Caton

Professor Nikole Hannah-Jones and Students Premiere “1619: The College Edition” Podcast with Spotify

Apr 19, 2024 5 minutes

Black Maternal Health at Howard University

Dear Mama: Highlighting Environmental Pollutants on Black Maternal Health

Apr 12, 2024 5 minutes