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Women's History Month: Howard Alumna Jeanne Sinkford Broke Barriers As First Woman to Lead a College of Dentistry

A full exploration of women’s history must include the numerous, invaluable contributions of Howard alumna Jeanne Craig Sinkford, DDS, Ph.D., the first woman dean of a dental school in the United States.

Mar 28, 2026 7 minutes

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Women's History Month: Ty Grace Is Building Champions, Shaping Legacy at The Mecca

Mar 27, 2026 6 minutes

Legacy and Lineage

Women’s History Month: Meet the Executive Director of Howard’s Center for Women, Gender, and Global Leadership

Mar 26, 2026 5 minutes

Epiphanies, Discovery, and Research

Howard University's Reach Alliance Team Studies Black Maternal Health in the U.S. and Ghana

Mar 26, 2026 3 minutes

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Howard University Appoints “Chuka” Onwumechili as Interim Dean of Cathy Hughes School of Communications

Jun 27, 2024 2 minutes

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Gwendolyn H. Everett, Ph.D., Named Interim Dean of the Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts

Jun 26, 2024 3 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

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Howard University, PNC National Center for Entrepreneurship (HUxPNC) to Celebrate Juneteenth, Future of Black Entrepreneurship with Second Annual Black Commerce Conference

Jun 13, 2024 4 minutes

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Howard University Appoints Chancellor Mills as New Director of Bands

Jun 13, 2024 3 minutes

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Celebrate World Sickle Cell Day with Howard University: Raising Awareness and Advancing Research

Jun 13, 2024 2 minutes

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Howard University's Multicultural Media Academy to Address Post-Pandemic Health Disparities in DC

Jun 12, 2024 3 minutes

Kweli Zukeri, interviews Sam Altman about artificial intelligence for the Howard University podcast, HU2U (Source: Justin Knight)

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Howard Announces Season Two of University Podcast ‘HU2U’

Jun 12, 2024 3 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

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Howard University School of Law Professor John Woods Appointed to World Bank-ICSID Panel

Jun 11, 2024 2 minutes