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University Events
Marking 100 Years, Celebrating the Life and Work of Alain Leroy Locke,
the First Black American Rhodes Scholar
To commemorate
the centennial Oxford matriculation of Alain
Leroy Locke, the first Black American Rhodes
Scholar, the Association of American Rhodes
Scholars in conjunction with Howard University,
will host a joint public symposium on his
contributions to America and the global
community on Monday, Sept. 24, from 9 a.m. to
12:30 p.m., in the Blackburn Center.
The keynote
address entitled “Alain Locke and Rhodes:
Cosmopolitan Transformations at Oxford” will be
delivered by Dr. Leonard Harris, professor of
philosophy at Purdue University and a
non-resident Fellow of the W.E.B. Du Bois
Institute for Afro-American Research at Harvard
University. Other panelists will include Dr.
Christopher Buck, a professor in the Department
of Religion at Millikin University and an expert
on the Baha’i faith; and Dr. Jeffrey Stewart, a
professor of history and art history at George
Mason University.
Locke, a Harvard University graduate, was
elected to the Rhodes scholarship and went on to
study at Hertford College at Oxford University
and then completed his graduate studies at the
University of Berlin and Harvard University. He
is most noted for his influential role in
identifying, nurturing and publishing the works
of young black artists during the New Negro
Movement. For more information about Locke go to
the Library Web site at
http://www.founders.howard.edu/locke.htm.
Howard University has a tradition of producing
Rhodes Scholars, including Mark Alleyne, who
earned a bachelor’s degree in communications and
received the scholarship in 1984; Carla Joy
Peterman, who earned a bachelor’s degree in
history and received the scholarship in 1999;
and Marianna Ofosu, who earned a bachelor’s of
arts in Classics and received the scholarship in
2003. Howard University School of Law Dean Kurt
Schmoke, J.D., is also a Rhodes Scholar.
Edward A. Bouchet
Graduate Honor Society Forum
The Howard
University Graduate School will host its annual
Bouchet Honor Society Forum in celebration of
Edward A. Bouchet, the first African American to
obtain a Ph.D. degree in the U.S., which he
received from Yale University in physics in
1876. New members will be inducted into the
society. The keynote speaker for the event will
be Dr. Julian M. Earls, executive in residence,
Nance College of Business Administration,
Cleveland State University. For more information
about this event, contact Gwendolyn S. Bethea at
(202) 806-6156 or email gbethea@howard.edu.
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