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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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Howard University CEA Professor Sonya Smith Elected to AIAA Class of 2026 Fellows

Howard University professor Sonya T. Smith, Ph.D., has been elected to the AIAA Class of 2026 Fellows, recognizing her contributions to computational fluid dynamics, thermal engineering and aerospace research.

Sep 28, 2026 3 minutes
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Epiphanies, Discovery, and Research

Howard University Doctoral Student Receives Competitive Dissertation Fellowship, Examines Faith in Educational Experiences of Black Students

Sep 4, 2026 5 minutes
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Howard University Chemical Engineering Professors Secure Nearly $1M DoD Award to Expand Bioindustrial Manufacturing Research and Student Training

Sep 1, 2026 4 minutes
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Howard University Launches Its First AI Certificate Program for Undergraduate Students

Aug 20, 2026 4 minutes
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Howard University Engineering Professor Fadel Lashhab to Lead $500K NSF Project To Train K-12 Educators in Robotics and Automation

Dec 15, 2025 2 minutes
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Artificial Intelligence

Congressmen Kweisi Mfume and Ro Khanna join Howard University to Discuss AI Workforce and Tech Innovation

Dec 2, 2025 4 minutes
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NVIDIA Partners with Howard University for its GTC Student Experience Event

Oct 31, 2025 5 minutes
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Artificial Intelligence

Howard University Announces Forthcoming AI Certificate Program, Research Funding Proposal Partnership with OpenAI, and more at AI Initiative Town Hall

Oct 24, 2025 5 minutes
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Howard University’s Dr. Jorge Burmicky Receives 2025 ASHE Public Scholarship Award

Oct 22, 2025 4 minutes
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Howard University Biomedicine Student Named Recipient of Thermo Fisher Antibody Scholarship

Oct 21, 2025 2 minutes
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Howard Graduate Student Awarded RWJF’s Health Policy Research Scholars Fellowship to Explore How Systemic Inequities Lead to Trauma

Oct 9, 2025 2 minutes
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Howard University Launches Advanced Biomedical Science Ph.D. Program

Oct 8, 2025 3 minutes
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What Screens are Actually Doing to Your Kid’s Brain — Spoiler: It’s Not Good

Sep 18, 2025 8 minutes
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It's Not CSI: Howard Professor Explains the Real Work of Forensic Psychiatry

Sep 18, 2025 4 minutes