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Pre PhD Program Participants Including Dr. Keneshia Grant

Epiphanies, Discovery, and Research

How Howard is Helping to Increase the Number of Ph.D.s from HBCUs Across the Country

Howard's Pre-Ph.D. Summer Enrichment is helping to increase the number of doctoral candidates from HBCUs around the country.

Jun 11, 2026 7 minutes

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Howard University’s Bilal Badruddin Named 2025-2026 MEAC Nation Alumni Director of the Year

Jun 3, 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

Jaradat at work in his Geomaterials Research Lab with Ph.D. student Mohammad Almasaeid

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Howard University Engineering Professor Advances Soil Thermal Behavior Research with $780K DOD Grant

May 22, 2026 3 minutes

James Patterson sits at a desk

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Best-Selling Author James Patterson Establishes Scholarships for New Writers at Howard

Sep 27, 2022 3 minutes

Howard CZI Members

Philanthropy

Howard University's Office of Research Awarded $11.5 Million From Chan Zuckerberg Initiative To Advance Genomics And Genetics Research

Sep 27, 2022 5 minutes

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School of Divinity Launches Clinical Pastoral Education Program 

Sep 27, 2022 2 minutes

Trumpet Player in front of Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts

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Howard University Joins The Denyce Graves Foundation partnership with The Metropolitan Opera, HBCUs and America’s most preeminent conservatories

Sep 26, 2022 3 minutes

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Howard Celebrates Successful First Year of the Howard Sales Management Fellowship in Partnership with Vanguard

Sep 26, 2022 4 minutes

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JP Morgan Host Back to the Yard Event to Inspire Responsible Financial Awareness

Sep 22, 2022 2 minutes

$Sydney Kates, senior biology student conducts fractional distillation during a class experiment. -Chris Campbell/Howard University$

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Photo of the Week September 13, 2022

Sep 22, 2022 1 minute

Dean of the Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts, Phylicia Rashad, listens intently while Congressman James E. Clyburn delivers the 155th Opening Convocation Address. Chris Campbell/Howard University

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Photo of the Week September 20, 2022

Sep 22, 2022 1 minute

Students at Howard University School of Business

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Howard School of Business Is Ranked Among Bloomberg Businessweek’s Best Business Schools of 2022-23

Sep 22, 2022 2 minutes

Dr. Andrea A. Hayes Dixon, dean of the Howard University College of Medicine

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Andrea A. Hayes Dixon, M.D., FACS, FAAP Appointed First Black Woman Dean of Howard University’s College of Medicine

Sep 22, 2022 4 minutes