Faculty Awards & Achievements

Echols to be a Visiting Professor at Graduate Institute of International Studies
and Wins Mayre Rasmussen Award

Professor Marsha Echols has been invited to be a Visiting Professor for the summer session at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. The course is a seminar on “International Law, Corporations and Globalization.” The program’s students include diplomats and government officials from Europe, Asia and Latin America. Kofi Annan is a graduate of the Institute as are many other international dignitaries.

Also, the Section of International Law of the American Bar Association awarded Echols with its Mayre Rasmussen Award during its spring meeting in Washington, D.C. in May. The award is given for helping women advance in international law. Echols is the director of Howard’s Graduate (LLM) Program and director of The World Food Law Institute.

Hicks Receives Honorary Degree from UW-Madison

Leslie H. Hicks, Ph.D., received an honorary degree from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Hicks earned his Ph.D. (1954) and M.A. (1952) at UW-Madison. In 1968, Hicks founded the first doctoral program in clinical psychology at Howard University, where he earned his B.S. in 1949.

Hicks has taught at Howard for almost 53 years. After initial research on the cognitive processes of monkeys, Hicks began comparative studies of children and monkeys performing comparable tasks. Most recently, he has focused on the effects of various types of brain dysfunction.

Livingston Publishes New Book about Stress Management

Ivor Livingston, Ph.D., has published the book You Don't Have To Be Over Stressed All The Time, which provides effective tips for managing stress. The book has a simplified approach to understanding and managing stress in our hectic and fast-paced society. The book includes several real-life illustrations and pictures of models that appear next to the narrative. The format of the book follows Livingston’s “3-Step, Simplified, I-R-M Approach to Managing Stress.” Livingston is the acting chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology.

Several Howard University professors and graduate students were invited
to participate in The 9th International Conference on Calixarene Chemistry, Calix 2007, a prominent conference that studies the importance of "calixarenes."

Calixarenes occupy an important place in supramolecular chemistry and molecular recognition and they find practical applications in chemical separations, sensors, nanomaterials and other areas of science and technology. In Howard's Department of Chemistry, synthesis and molecular recognition properties of calixarenes are studied in the research groups of Dr. Paul Hudrlik (pictured) and Dr. Galina Talanova (pictured).

The conference will be held this August at the University of Maryland in College Park. Talanova was invited to join the Local Organizing Committee together with known specialists in supramolecular chemistry from the University of Maryland, Georgetown University, and Virginia Commonwealth University and she will deliver an invited lecture at the conference.

About 200 scientists from all around the world are expected to participate in this conference. Howard University will be represented by the faculty: Profs. Galina Talanova, Paul Hudrlik, Anne Hudrlik, and Vladimir Talanov, and graduate students: Nicole Buie, Ebony Roper, and Prima Tatum.

Lawson Named Consulting and Contributing Editor of Two Journals
William B. Lawson, M.D., Ph.D., DFAPA , has been named consulting and contributing editor for the journals Current Psychiatry and Journal of Dual Diagnosis. Lawson was honored in “Metropolitan Who’s Who” for 2007. Lawson is professor and chair, and director, Mood Research Program, Department of Psychiatry, Howard University College of Medicine and Hospital.



Chaudhary Receives Lifetime Achievement Award from Faculty Senate
Anju Grover Chaudhary, Ph.D., graduate professor in the Department of Journalism, has over 35 years of professional and academic experience in journalism. Howard has been home to her for more than 37 years – six years as a student and 31 years as an academician. She received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in history from Howard University and later received another master’s and a Ph.D. in journalism from the University of Maryland. Chaudhary has been teaching a variety of courses in the Department of Journalism since January 1976.

A specialist in the fields of international communications and new technologies, she has edited several books, contributed several chapters in journalism textbooks and published numerous articles in academic journals. Her book entitled, Comparative Mass Media Systems, was adopted as a text in more than 40 universities throughout the United States and several countries abroad and was later translated into Malaysian and Arabic.

2007 Faculty Awards

• A Profile in Courage Award – Lorenzo Morris, Ph.D.
   

• Emerging Scholar Award – Everette D. Joseph, Ph.D.
   

• Exemplary Mentoring Award – Kay T. Payne, Ph.D.
   

• Exemplary Teaching Award – A. Wade Boykin, Ph.D.
   

• Inspirational Interdisciplinary Project Award – George A. Middendorf, III, Ph.D., and Gregory S. Jenkins, Ph.D.
   

• Outstanding Contribution to Africa and the African Diaspora Award – James A. Momoh, Ph.D.
   

• Outstanding Service Award – Valarie J. Lawson, Ph.D.
   

• Scholarship & Creativity Award – Amelia Mondragon, Ph.D.