Freeman A. Hrabowski, Ph.D., president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), will provide keynote remarks at the Howard University Graduate School’s Eight Annual Edward Bouchet Forum on Thursday, Sept. 12 in the School of Business Auditorium at 4 p.m.
Dr. Hrabowski will accept the Edward Bouchet Legacy Award. The award is named for Yale University alumnus Dr. Edward Alexander Bouchet who, in 1876, became the first African American to earn a Ph.D. in any discipline from an American university and the sixth person ever to earn a Ph.D. in physics in the Western Hemisphere.
The Edward Bouchet Society was established by Howard University and Yale University to recognize outstanding achievement and promote diversity and excellence in doctoral education and the professoriate in 2005. The initiative currently includes eight additional institutional partners: Cornell University, George Washington University, Georgetown University, Rutgers University, University of California, San Diego, University of Michigan, University of Wisconsin – Madison, and Washington University in St. Louis.
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