Tag: doctorate
Lamar Benefield: The Visionary With a Taste for Birmingham
By Nicole S. Daniel
The Birmingham Times
When he first walked onto the Miles College campus, Lamar Benefield said didn’t know what to expect. He grew...
Attorney Fred Gray, Civil Rights Pioneer, Receives Honorary Degree from University...
news.ua.edu
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – The University of Alabama presented civil rights pioneer and attorney Fred David Gray with an Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree during...
Expelled in 1956, first black student at University of Alabama gets...
Associated Press
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — Autherine Lucy Foster, the first African-American student to attend the University of Alabama, received an honorary doctorate degree last...
Expanding Minority Doctorate Pipeline Began with Facebook Group
By LaMont Jones
Diverse Education
LaShonda Horrison-Gurley said she “didn’t know whether to laugh, to cry or break out in a praise dance” when she successfully...
UAB PhD student travels to Africa for foreign studies
By Tiffany Westry Womack
UAB News
Roman Johnson, a Ph.D. student studying medical sociology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, has been awarded a Foreign...
Birmingham native breaks barriers in engineering, while earning doctorate at FAMU
Special to the Times
Three Florida A&M University (FAMU) female doctoral students, who are also best friends, recently received their doctorates in engineering. Marcella Carnes...
