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A Portland, Oregon, woman was awarded $1 million following a racist incident in 2020, KGW reported. Rose Wakefield said a gas station employee told her, “I don’t serve Black people.” A Portland woman was granted $1 million in damages by a jury this week for suffering racial discrimination during a confrontation at a gas station […]
Steven Donziger is back in his airy mid-century modern apartment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, engaged over Zoom on a marketing call with a representative of the online publishing platform Substack. Back and forth, they wrestle with a complicated question—who is Steven Donziger—and quickly realize there is no easy answer. Donziger is a […]
University Relations From left, professors Andrew Braham, Rick Coffman and Michelle Barry of the Department of Civil Engineering. Three civil engineering department faculty members were recently awarded a $1.9 million grant from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to investigate and enhance existing pavements and evaluate their structure for military infrastructure problems. […]
Assoc. Prof. Reuben Jonathan Miller, a renowned sociologist who studies mass incarceration and how it shapes people’s lives, has been awarded a 2022 MacArthur Fellowship. Awarded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the prestigious fellowship recognizes individuals from across disciplines who “show exceptional creativity in their work.” As one of this year’s […]
WASHINGTON – Today, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) announced a partnership with Howard University and the nation’s three other historically Black medical colleges to further support cutting-edge scientific research to address significant gaps in genomics. CZI’s Accelerate Precision Health (APH) program will award $11.5 million to Howard University’s Office of Research over five years, allowing the […]
Photos: TwitterScreenshot President Joe Biden yesterday awarded the nation’s highest civilian honor to Fred Gray, the courageous and tireless Montgomery lawyer who represented Rosa Parks and the dozens of Montgomery residents who were arrested for participating in the Montgomery bus boycott, including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
A Black woman has been awarded in Rome after helping to raise $150 million to preserve U.S. history. Monica Rhodes was awarded the Adele Chatfield-Taylor Rome Prize in historic preservation and conservation by the American Academy in Rome. The Academy supports innovative artists, writers and scholars. Its Rome Prize has for more than a century […]
Five University of Miami students and two alumni are heading overseas this summer to study and learn new languages after being conferred prestigious national scholarship awards. When Alexander Walch was a child, he knew languages were important, but he did not quite understand the reason. Born in his mother’s hometown of Monterrey, Mexico, Walch spent […]
May 14, 2022 A ‘delighted’ Phyllis McLean has been awarded the prestigious Mary Black Award for 2022 after a lifelong career within artistic swimming. The Swim England Artistic Swimming Leadership Team reviewed the nominations and were unanimous in their decision to award the trophy to Phyllis. She was presented with the award at the Artistic […]
UConn history professor Manisha Sinha is among 180 Guggenheim Fellows named last month, putting her in a prestigious category alongside only nine other UConn faculty members in the last 50 years. The 2022 fellowship class comprises artists and scholars from throughout the United States and Canada and includes those whose expertise varies from the natural […]