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Hampton,
VA - The Training Youth Ministers and Pastors session will
feature Dr. Renee Rochester, the founder and director of Urban S.E.T.
(Strengthening, Educating and Training), based in Austin, Texas. Rochester,
who will discuss approaches to youth ministry, has designed curricula
for youth health education, biblical training and spiritual development.
She also has consulted with public and private inner-city schools
as well as numerous organizations and other entities.
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- MEDIA ALERT: HU MINISTERS' CONFERENCE FEATURES FREE CONCERT |
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Hampton, VA - The
Training Youth Ministers and Pastors session will feature Dr. Renee
Rochester, the founder and director of Urban S.E.T. (Strengthening,
Educating and Training), based in Austin, Texas. Rochester, who will
discuss approaches to youth ministry, has designed curricula for youth
health education, biblical training and spiritual development. She
also has consulted with public and private inner-city schools as well
as numerous organizations and other entities.
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- MEDIA ALERT: HU MINISTERS' CONFERENCE DISCUSSES WOMEN IN MINISTRY
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Hampton, VA - The
Women in the Ministry Hour will focus on three tips that are helpful
to women - techniques, tools and technology. Led by the Rev. Dr. Suzan
Johnson Cook, the discussion will offer women in the ministry an opportunity
to relate their experiences and learn from the experts.
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- MEDIA ALERT: HU MINISTERS' CONFERENCE FEATURES SENIOR STATESPERSONS
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Hampton, VA - The
Alfred C.D. Vaughn Senior Statespersons Hour will focus on lessons
each panelist has learned from more than 30 years of pastoring. Each
of the nationally-recognized ministers on the panel has been a minister
for three decades.
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- HU OFFERS FINANCIAL EXPERTISE TO SOUTH AFRICAN COLLEGE |
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Hampton, VA - Hampton
University's recent history of financial stability and entrepreneurial
spirit will be used to help a struggling black university in South
Africa. Hampton has been awarded $580,000 from UNCF/USAID to provide
consulting services over a two and a half year period to help Technikon
Northern Gauteng develop sound fiscal management, budgetary processes
and fundraising strategies.
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- HU LAUNCHES MAST PROGRAM |
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Hampton, VA - From
June 19 until July 10, 12 minority college students will come to Hampton
University from across the country to spend three weeks under sail,
studying marine science and policy, and the heritage of African Americans
on the Chesapeake Bay.
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- MEDIA ALERT HU MINISTERS' CONFERENCE ADDRESSES PROPHETIC SPEECH
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Hampton, VA - The
theme for this year's conference is Tongues of Fire: Prophetic Speech
for the New Millennium. The conference will address church language
and how to preach the gospel in the new millennium, ensuring that
the word of the Lord is heard and clearly understood.
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- HU PROFESSOR WINS NASA AWARD |
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Hampton, VA - Hampton
University's Dr. M. Patrick McCormick will receive NASA's Distinguished
Public Service Medal, the highest honor bestowed upon non-governmental
individuals.
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- HU MEDIA DEPTARTMENT RECEIVES RE-ACCREDITATION |
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Hampton, VA - Hampton
University's Department of Mass Media Arts has received re-accreditation
by the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications.
The unanimous decision to re-accredit the program came after a four-day
campus site visit in late January.
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| 5/19/00
- HU AWARDED CHARTER SCHOOL GRANT |
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Hampton, VA - Hampton
University has been awarded a $52,000 planning grant as it establishes
one of Virginia's first three charter schools.
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- HU PARTNERS WITH HAMPTON CITY SCHOOLS IN TECHNOLOGY TRAINING |
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Hampton, VA - Hampton
University and Hampton City Schools announce a community-campus partnership
that will go along way in narrowing the digital divide.
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- HU MINISTERS' CONFERENCE ADDRESSES PROPHETIC SPEECH |
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Hampton, VA - Ministers
from around the world will converge at Hampton University on June
4 - 9 to discuss prophetic speech in the new millennium at the 86th
Annual Ministers' Conference.
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- HU GRADUATING SENIORS TELL THEIR STORIES |
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Hampton, VA - On
Sunday at 10 a.m. in the Convocation Center, about 1,000 Hampton University
students will receive their associates, bachelor's, master's and doctoral
degrees. They each have a unique story to tell about how they accomplished
their goals and where the future is leading them.
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- HU MOURNS DEATH OF STUDENT WHO DIED IN APARTMENT FIRE |
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Hampton, VA - The
Hampton University community mourns the death of student Kendrick
Jovan Hodges, who died in an apartment fire at the Hampton Harbor
Apartments early Saturday morning.
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| 4/27/00
- HU GETS $1 MILLION GIFT FOR TEACHER TRAINING |
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Hampton, VA - Hampton
University President and Mrs. William R. Harvey announced that they
are establishing a $1 million scholarship fund for Hampton University
students from the Peninsula who are interested in becoming teachers.
Specifically, the Harveys are establishing six scholarships per year
for graduates from three high schools in Hampton and three in Newport
News to include Hampton Roads Academy.
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- HU ESTABLISHES DETT MUSIC SOCIETY |
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Hampton, VA - The
Hampton University Department of Music invites the general public
to a black-tie event, "Evening Under the Magnolia Suite," to establish
the Robert Nathaniel Dett Music Society, an organization of patrons
and supporters of the HU music department.
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| 4/19/00
- HU NAMED TO 100 MOST WIRED LIST |
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Hampton, VA - Hampton
University has been ranked No. 72 on America's Most Wired Colleges
2000 list. The University is the only university in the Hampton Roads
area of Virginia included in the rankings and is one of two historically
black universities on the list of 100 universities.
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- HU RECEIVES $4.1 MILLION FROM PEPSI |
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Hampton, VA - Hampton
University will announce a combined $4.1 million gift from the Pepsi
Bottling Group and the PepsiCo Foundation. Money from the gifts will
be used for the University's $200 Million Capital Campaign and Leadership
Institute and to establish Hampton University's exclusivity as a Pepsi
campus.
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- HU ALUMNA READS FROM, SIGNS MOTIVATIONAL BOOKS |
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Hampton, VA - Hampton
University alumna Dr. Judi Bowman will have a book reading and signing
on April 24 from 5 - 7 p.m. in the Harvey Library Meeting Room.
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- HU TO PRESENT TOM JOYNER WITH HONORARY DEGREE AT COMMENCEMENT |
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Hampton, VA - Hampton
University will present radio celebrity Tom Joyner with an honorary
degree, doctor of humane letters, at the University's 130th Annual
Commencement Exercises on May 14.
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- HU MASS MEDIA DEPT. RECEIVES $ 2.3 MILLION FROM SCRIPPS HOWARD FOUNDATION
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Hampton, VA - Hampton
University and the Scripps Howard Foundation have announced an educational
and financial partnership that includes an initial commitment of $2,355,500
million to HU's Department of Mass Media Arts.
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- HU VP FOR RESEARCH NAMED PRESIDENT OF BOWIE STATE UNIVERSITY |
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Hampton, VA - Hampton
University Vice President for Research and Dean of the Graduate College
Dr. Calvin Lowe has been named the president of Bowie State University
by the Board of Regents and Chancellor of the University System of
Maryland. His appointment is effective in May.
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| 3/24/00
- HU OPENS DATA CONVERSION LAB, IN LINE TO RECEIVE DOD CONTRACTS |
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Hampton, VA - Through
a $1 million prime contract from the Department of Defense, Hampton
University will open its new data conversion and management laboratory
on March 31. The ribbon cutting ceremony will be held at 9:30 a.m.
on the fifth floor of the William R. and Norma B. Harvey Library.
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- ALUMNUS, VIRGIN ISLANDS GOVERNOR TO SPEAK AT COMMENCEMENT |
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Hampton, VA - Governor
of the U.S. Virgin Islands Dr. Charles Turnbull, a Hampton University
alumnus and the only African-American governor in the United States
and its territories, will be the University's commencement speaker
on May 14.
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- MINISTER BENJAMIN MUHAMMAD TO SPEAK WITH MEDIA AT HU BLACK FAMILY
CONFERENCE |
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Hampton, VA - Minister
Benjamin Muhammad (formerly Ben Chavis) will speak with members of
the media before he gives the closing luncheon speech for the 22nd
Annual Conference on the Black Family.
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- HU'S ANNUAL BLACK FAMILY CONFERENCE WELCOMES SPEAKERS |
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Hampton, VA - Dorothy
Height, chair and president emerita of the National Council of Negro
Women, will be the opening plenary speaker at Hampton University's
22nd Annual Conference on the Black Family, "Women's Health Issues:
Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities."
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- HU HONORS COLLEGE WELCOMES SPEAKERS |
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Hampton, VA - The
Hampton University Honors College welcomes Carol E. James, author
of "Every Heart Knows Its Own Sorrow" and Henry Lewis of Kidtech,
Inc. to the Third Annual W.E.B. DuBois Invitational Honors Conference,
"Celebrating Smart Black Kids: A Prescription for Change."
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- HU WELCOMES STUDENTS FOR HIGH SCHOOL DAY |
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Hampton, VA - Students
from across the nation will converge on Hampton University's campus
on April 7 for the University's 22nd Annual High School Day. This
year's theme is "Reach for the Stars."
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- HU RECEIVES GRANT FOR E-COMMERCE FROM MELLON FOUNDATION |
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Hampton, VA - Hampton
University's institutional advancement operations recently received
a generous $350,000 gift from the Mellon Foundation.
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- FORMER HU VP TO SPEAK AT FOUNDER'S DAY |
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Hampton, VA - Hampton
University will welcome Savannah State University President Dr. Carlton
E. Brown as its 107th Annual Founder's Day speaker on Jan. 30 at 11:30
a.m. in Ogden Hall. Founder's Day activities also will include the
commemorative wreath placing ceremony at the gravesite of the University's
founder, Gen. Samuel Chapman Armstrong, in the Hampton University
Cemetery at 9:30 a.m.
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- HU'S ANNUAL BLACK FAMILY CONFERENCE TARGETS WOMEN'S HEALTH ISSUES
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Hampton, VA - Hampton
University's 22nd Annual Conference on the Black Family will focus
on diseases that affect women and the disparities in the health care
system.
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| 11/11/99
- HU KICKS OFF DISCUSSION ON ABSTINENCE AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN YOUTH
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Hampton, VA - Hampton
University will kick off the NAFEO abstinence education initiative
Nov. 12 -14 with a conference designed to serve as a nationwide impetus
for the community to devise effective means of communicating the principles
of abstinence to youth.
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| 11/3/99
- HU PRESENTS ABSTINENCE AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN YOUTH CONFERENCE |
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Hampton, VA - Hampton
University will kick off the National Association for Equal Opportunity
in Higher Education (NAFEO) abstinence education initiative Nov. 12
-14 with a conference designed to serve as a nationwide impetus for
the community to devise effective means of communicating the principles
of abstinence to youth.
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| 11/3/99
- HU PRESENTS HIGH SCHOOL BAND DAY |
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Hampton, VA - Hampton
University Marching band "The Force" will hold its fifth annual High
School Band Day and Marching Festival on Nov. 13. The competition
will begin at 1:30 p.m. at Armstrong Stadium.
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- HU BREAKS GROUND ON NEW STUDENT CENTER |
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Hampton, VA - Hampton
University broke ground on its state-of-the-art student center on
Oct. 30 during HU Homecoming festivities.
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- HU TO BREAK GROUND ON NEW STUDENT CENTER |
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Hampton, VA - Hampton
University will break ground on its state-of-the-art student center
on Saturday, Oct. 30 at 1 p.m.
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| 10/26/99
- HU PSYCHOLOGY PROFESSOR FACILITATES NATIONAL SATELLITE SEMINAR ON
DIVERSITY |
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Hampton, VA - Hampton
University psychology professor Dr. Adolph Brown will facilitate a
national satellite seminar that will address diversity on Nov. 2.
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| 10/25/99
- HU PRESIDENT CITED FOR LEADERSHIP IN ENCOURAGING CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT
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Hampton, VA - Hampton
University President William R. Harvey is among only 50 college and
university presidents recognized for their outstanding leadership
in the field of student character development in The Templeton Guide:
Colleges that Encourage Character Development, a guidebook released
nationwide last week.
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| 10/22/99
- HU DEPT. OF CHEMISTRY RECEIVES $669,552 FOR RESEARCH AND STUDY ABROAD
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Hampton, VA - Hampton
University's Department of Chemistry recently received a grant for
$669,552 from the National Institutes of Health to expand its research
and study abroad opportunities for students and faculty.
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| 10/16/99
- JOURNALIST TONY BROWN TO SPEAK AT HU CONVOCATION |
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Hampton, VA - The
event, which marks the official opening of the school year, will feature
keynote speaker journalist and commentator Tony Brown.
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| 10/13/99
- HU WELCOMES STYLISTICS AND DELFONICS FOR PARENTS WEEKEND CONCERT
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Hampton, VA - Hampton
University Players and Company and the Office of Student Activities
welcomes The Stylistics and The Delfonics on Oct. 23 for a concert
in Ogden Hall.
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| 9/30/99
- HU WELCOMES JOINT EXHIBIT AND CONCERT TO EXPLORE LEGACY OF HU COMPOSERS
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Hampton, VA - Hampton
University welcomes an art exhibit and chamber music concert that
explores the diversities, influences and careers of 20th century HU
students and faculty composers on Oct. 17.
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| 9/30/99
- HU WINS $ 2.9 MILLION FROM NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION |
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Hampton, VA - Hampton
University's School of Science recently won a $2.9 million grant from
the National Science Foundation.
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| 9/20/99
- HU WELCOMES ACCLAIMED MEDIA MOGUL FOR CONVOCATION |
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Hampton, VA - Hampton
University welcomes television journalist and commentator Tony Brown
for the 57th annual Opening Convocation ceremony on Oct. 17.
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| 9/20/99
- HU CELEBRATES NATIONAL PHARMACY WEEK |
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Hampton, VA - The
Hampton University School of Pharmacy will promote the pharmacists'
role in our local community through various activities on campus during
National Pharmacy Week Oct. 24-30.
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| 8/26/99
- WHOV 88.1 FM'S HISPANIC SOUNDS PROGRAM IS BACK ON THE AIR |
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Hampton, VA - Hampton
University's radio station, WHOV 88.1 FM, has announced that Hispanic
Sounds, a bilingual program, is back on the air. The program will
run every Saturday from 6 a.m. until 10 a.m. and on Sundays from 3
p.m. until 6 p.m.
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| 8/23/99
- SCHOOL OF NURSING RECEIVES $1.9 MILLION FROM DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
AND HUMAN SERVICES |
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Hampton, VA - Hampton
University enrolled its first students in the doctor of philosophy
program in nursing this fall.
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| 8/25/99
- HU WINS DEPT. OF ENERGY GRANTS |
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Hampton, VA - Hampton
University recently was named recipient of three grants from the Department
of Energy that total $419,982 to study pollution, alternative liquid
fuels and organic chemicals in the wastewater of energy facilities.
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- HU BECOMES FIRST HBCU TO OFFER THE PH.D. IN NURSING |
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Hampton, VA - Hampton
University will enroll its first class of three students in the doctor
of philosophy program in nursing this fall.
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| 8/20/99
- HU RANKS NO. 29 IN U.S. NEWS MAGAZINE ANNUAL COLLEGE RANKINGS |
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Hampton, VA - For
the second consecutive year, Hampton University has been ranked among
the top southern universities in the regional universities category
of the annual U.S. News and World Report magazine college rankings.
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| 8/18/99
- HU WELCOMES TRANSPORTATION EXECUTIVE FOR FACULTY INSTITUTE |
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Hampton, VA - Hampton
University's 54th Annual Educational Staff Institute welcomes Dr.
Ilene D. Payne, director of universities and grant programs for the
U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration,
as the keynote speaker.
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| 8/16/99
- HU CONTINUES TO INVESTIGATE ROBBERY |
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Hampton, VA - Hampton
University Police Chief Leroy Crosby confirms that a female Hampton
University cashier in the Administration Building was robbed at gunpoint
on Wed., Aug. 11 at approximately 4:15 p.m.
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| 8/5/99
- HU PRESIDENT INVESTS IN ARENA FOOTBALL |
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Hampton, VA - Hampton
University President William R. Harvey and a group of North Carolina
businessmen have secured the Arena Football League's approval to bring
a team to Raleigh-Durham.
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| 7/29/99
- BEQUEST FROM THE ESTATE OF BARBARA FORST TO BENEFIT HU MUSEUM |
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Hampton, VA - Hampton
University has announced receipt of a $350,000 bequest from the estate
of the late Barbara Bottom Forst. In accordance with Forst's wishes,
the gift will be used to create an endowment for the University Museum.
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| 7/26/99
- HU FACULTY NAMED TO NATIONAL CONSORTIUM OF DOCTORS |
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Hampton, VA - Hampton
University dean of the School of Pharmacy Dr. Arcelia Johnson-Fannin
and Director of Human Resources Dr. Kim Luckes were recently inducted
into the Consortium of Doctors.
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| 7/19/99
- HU AEROSCIENCE CENTER RECEIVES $20,000 FOR BOEING 727 ENGINE IN
HONOR OF AMERICAN AIRLINES EXECUTIVE |
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Hampton, VA - American
Airlines will donate $20,000, a Boeing 727 engine and training for
HU aviation professors during a ceremony at the Hampton University
College of Continuing Education /Raytheon Aeroscience Center at Newport
News/Williamsburg International Airport on Thursday, July 22 at 2
p.m.
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| 7/15/99
- HU PROFESSOR, ONE OF 11 OCEAN CHAMPIONS FROM AROUND THE WORLD, NAMED
1999 PEW MARINE CONSERVATION FELLOW |
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Hampton, VA - When
Benjamin Cuker attended professional conferences as a marine scientist,
he would look around the room and notice something was lacking. In
a field where biodiversity is generally taken as a reflection of the
marine ecosystem's health, there was scarce little diversity among
the scientists themselves.
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| 7/13/99
- HU RANKS FIRST IN PRODUCING AFRICAN-AMERICAN ENGLISH GRADS FOR THIRD
STRAIGHT YEAR |
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Hampton, VA - For
the third consecutive year, Hampton University has ranked first among
U.S. universities and colleges in producing African-American baccalaureates
with degrees in English, according to the Black Issues in Higher Education's
Special Report on the Top 100 Degree Producers in the July 8 issue
of the magazine.
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