COAS 1ST FRIDAY NEWSLETTER: JUNE EDITION

Noteworthy News

Healing and Justice: Medieval Stories from Ethiopia, Eritrea and Egypt 

Educators, register for our Summer Institute, which takes place in July, in-person and virtually! The Outreach team of the Center for African Studies at Howard University, in collaboration with Princeton University, will host the 4-day hybrid Institute for highly motivated educators interested in reading, learning, and teaching about Africa. This year's institute theme is "Healing and Justice: Medieval Stories from Ethiopia, Eritrea and Egypt" with focus on material for educators in Grades 6-12 across disciplines. To learn more, visit the link below.

Congratulations

Summer 2024 FLAS Fellows! 

The Center for African Studies at Howard congratulates our Summer 2024 FLAS Fellows! 

The Center provides Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships through funding from the U.S. Department of Education Title VI program. FLAS Fellowships support students taking African languages (Amharic, Arabic, Somali, Swahili, Wolof, Yoruba, and Zulu) and area studies coursework. The fellowships support intensive for-credit study of an African language and promote the development of competency in African studies, either in the United States or abroad.

Learn more about FLAS Program below.

Welcome the 2024 HBCU-Africa Correspondents Corps Cohort 

The Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU)-Africa Correspondents Corps is an initiative of the Center for African Studies at Howard University. It aims to provide student journalists and political scientists attending HBCUs with professional development exposure and experience beneficial to pursuing a career as an international correspondent or political commentator. The HBCU-ACC will also work to broaden and deepen networks between HBCU students and their counterparts in Africa and the global African Diaspora!"

Howard University Undergrad Biology Students Recognized at 18th 

Annual Undergraduate Research Conference at Virginia State University

Congratulations to our four biology undergrads, who contributed to Dr. Ghosh’s NIMHD/NCI projects during Spring 2024 (in biology). Their research involves various health disparity issues among African Americans. They all presented their work independently at the 18th Annual Undergraduate Research Conference, 2024, at Virginia State University, Petersburg, VA:



• Role of E2F1 Signaling Pathways in Progression of MASLD in African Americans: An Ethnicity Based Comparative Study by Ms. Gabriel S Miracle (awarded 2nd)
• Ethnicity-Based Similarities and Differences of Global Transcriptomic Profiles among MASLD Patients by Ingenuity Pathway Analysis (IPA) by Ms. Jasneet Sahota (awarded 3rd)
• The Emerging Concept of Type 3 Diabetes: Why African Americas Matters by Ms. Armani Clay
• Decoding Latent Autoimmune Disease (LADA) in African American Adults: A Comprehensive Study on the Role of PFKFB3 Gene and Pathway’s T2DM Patients by Ms. Saimoen Anderson.

Special thanks go to Dr. Tanmoy Mondal for guiding them.

Faculty Honors

2023-2024 Outstanding Research Awardees

Sugata Chowdhury, Ph.D.

Professor

Physics and Astronomy

Cheikh Ndiaye, Ph.D.​

 Professor

Department of Mathematics​

Mohammad Mahmood, PhD​

Professor 

Department of Mathematics​​

2023-2024 Outstanding Service Awardees

Jevay Grooms, PhD​

Professor

Department of Economics​

Shaolei Teng, PhD​

 Professor

Department of Biology

Krista Johnson, PhD​

Professor 

Department of  African Studies ​

2023-2024 Outstanding Teaching Awardees

Wesley Rothman, PhD​

Lecturer

Department of English​

YRao Khan, PhD​

Professor

Department of Physics & Astronomy

Pratibha Dev, PhD​

Professor

Department of Physics & Astronomy​

Congratulations to all the Awardees!

Howard University

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