The Office of Research, Innovation, and Collaboration (ORIC) is designed to promote a robust research environment and ethical scholarly engagement with a focus on supporting the entire Spelman community and its scholars. The vision statement for ORIC is to "empower the Spelman Community to achieve and share scholarly excellence".
The ORIC Team and I are happy to present to you a "one-stop shop" to assist you in learning more about your colleagues and their scholarly excellence. We hope that as you review information about them and utilize the resources available, it would motivate you to develop collaborations. Thus, the name "ORIC Faculty Collaboration Hub". Welcome to the C-Hub!
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Spelman College Kicks Off 2024-2025 Academic Year with Annual Faculty Institute
Last week, more than 300 Spelman College faculty members convened at the College’s annual faculty institute, a place for faculty to connect with one another, foster collaboration across disciplines and discuss topics that will impact various aspects of higher education.
Opening Convocation Marks New Academic Year Celebrates Spelman's Stellar Faculty
On August 22, Spelman College students, faculty, staff and stakeholders filled Sisters Chapel for Opening Convocation.
Spelman Professor T. Lang Receives Top Industry Award
On September 5, T. Lang, MFA, associate professor of dance and the inaugural chair of the dance performance and choreography department at Spelman College, will be honored with the 2024 National Dance Educators Organization's (NDEO) Outstanding Dance Educator in Higher Education in the "Established" category award.
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Dr. Joyce Johnson Gives Spelman and the World the Gift of Music
On Jan. 27, 2024, professor emerita of music and Spelman’s beloved organist Dr. Joyce Finch Johnson, was feted at the Not Alone Foundation Inc. 8th Annual Diamonds Awards ceremony with the Diamonds Award Lifetime Achievement in Music Education. The educational leadership award signifies Dr. Johnson’s dedication and service to Spelman College and the world, while embracing philanthropy, humanitarian efforts and servant leadership.
Forever Blue: The Enduring Dedication of Linda Patton, C'88
Linda Hart Patton C'88, is an exemplar of "Forever Blue" – this year's Founders Day theme and a testament to Spelman's enduring legacy of sisterhood and exhibition of tenacity by students, alumnae, faculty and staff. Patton's service to Spelman began as a first-year student in 1984 and has continued throughout her more than decade-long tenure as a Spelman employee. Infusing sisterhood into every element of her work, she even affectionately closes emails with "sisterly."
Amber R. Reed, Ph.D: Cultural Anthropologist
My 2020 book, Nostalgia after Apartheid: Disillusionment, Youth, and Democracy in South Africa was the winner of the Society for Applied Anthropology/American Anthropological Association 2021 Margaret Mead Award.