Bermuda Prime Minister and Alumnus to Deliver Convocation Address The Honorable Ewart Frederick Brown, M.D., Receives Honorary Doctor of Laws Howard University has an illustrious legacy of producing physicians and politicians. Alumnus and Bermuda Premier The Honorable Ewart Frederick Brown, M.D., will give the keynote address and receive a Doctor of Laws (honoris causa) at the 142nd [...]
Last week there was a well know student protest on campus that affected normal daily activities. Students voiced their long hidden frustrations with the school. The president of Howard University Sidney A Ribeau issued a statement to the entire student body and here is how it reads. We would like to hear your opinions on [...]
Music superstar and business mogul Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson and author Robert Greene are coming to Howard University at 7 p.m. Sept. 9 in Cramton Auditorium as part of their tour to introduce their new book, The 50th Law. This collaboration is a follow up to Greene’s The 48 Laws of Power, which was a [...]
Howard artist Nduka Jemie aka “ND” released his highly anticipated mixtape entitled “Scandal” today! The mixtape features a slew of phonetically appealing songs from beginning to end! Word has it that the songs all talk about some experiences that ND had during a particular relationship. Hilltop Buzz caught up with a noticeably excited ((ND)) earlier this [...]
USNWR Ranks Howard #11 for “Strong Commitment to Teaching” HU Named Among Top 100 Universities Howard University ranked 11th among schools “where the faculty had an unusual commitment to undergraduate teaching.” Eighty schools were ranked for the best teaching of undergraduates in the 2010 U.S. News and World Report (USNWR). Howard also ranked in the top 100 in the [...]
Hundreds of students, researchers and science education experts from across the nation will gather November 12 to 14, 2009 at Howard University in Washington, D.C., as the university, in conjunction with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Educational Partnership Program, hosts the Fifth Bi-Annual Education and Science Forum. Nearly 1,000 college and university students and [...]
Anna Teschemaker, a doctoral student in Pharmaceutical Sciences and Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) Fellow, has won a dissertation award from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services valued at $30,709. The agency provides dissertation awards for students focusing on health services research undertaken [...]
The number of children in an Odenton, Md., couple’s family jumped four fold after the wife, Folashade Omoyele, gave birth to three boys and a girl recently at Howard University Hospital. The newborns, Mubarak, Amir, Khalifa and Amira-Saliha, were each delivered a minute apart beginning at 9:55 a.m. July 1. The largest weighed 4 pounds [...]
Howard University President Sidney A. Ribeau and University officials met with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) Director Rob Strain and members of his senior staff on Wednesday, June 10 to discuss strengthening and expanding the partnership between both institutions. The Goddard Center in Greenbelt, Md., and Howard University in Washington, D.C. have had an enduring [...]
Howard University announced today it will be one of 30 locations for an ExxonMobil Bernard Harris Summer Science Camp this summer. This is the third year that Howard University has hosted the camp. The camp will include 50 middle schoolers from the Washington Metropolitan area. The residential camp gives students a first-hand experience with experiments, role [...]
The BUZZ is out and there is much to be excited about around the Howard community. Howard University recently approved budget for a new student run clinic to be housed in the Howard University Hospital (HUH). The clinic will be called the “Freedman’s Clinic” and serves to provide a place for aiding the under served [...]
A few weeks ago we told you about the plan that Howard had in the works to remove all campus officers from places such as the Howard Hospital and place them on campus in an effort to increase police presence and safety. Well, we are now getting word that this plan may be no more! After [...]
