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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.

On August 22, Spelman College students, faculty, staff and stakeholders filled Sisters Chapel for Opening Convocation.

ATLANTA, GA (February 21, 2024) — Today, Spelman College, in collaboration with Morehouse College, Morehouse School of Medicine and Clark Atlanta University, was awarded a $14 million competitive grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) as part of its Growing Research Access for Nationally Transformative Equity and Diversity (GRANTED) initiative.

These modules are designed to enhance proposal development knowledge, particularly for disciplines supported by NSF and NIH and to promote the importance of program evaluation.

The documentary film, "Arte Congo... artists journey on the congo coast of panama," by Spelman College Professor Emeritus Arturo Lindsay, D.A., will be screened on Saturday, Aug. 26 at 3:30 p.m., at the Fulton County Southwest Art Center's Alliance Theater in Atlanta, Georgia.

For Marionette Holmes, Ph.D., C'90, associate professor and chair of Spelman College's economics department, pursuing a career in economics is a family tradition.

Dr. 'Dimeji Togunde has co-edited a new book: Institutional Commitment to Global Engagement: Cross-Cultural Reflections of Faculty, Students, Staff and Alumnae at Spelman College. Published by the Society of Transnational Academic Researchers (STAR Scholars Network) in partnership with the Journal of International Students and Open Journals in Education  (OJED).

Dr. 'Dimeji R. Togunde, Vice Provost for Global Education & Professor of International Studies at Spelman College, has been appointed to the Board of Directors of Cultural Vistas, along with four other distinguished professionals.

The Associated Colleges of the South (ACS) recently selected Spelman College associate professor Michelle S. Hite, Ph.D., as one of 10 academic leadership fellows, following a competitive selection process among its member institutions. Hite is also program director of Spelman’s Honors Program, as well as the International Fellowships and Scholarships program.

Dr. Hyunjung R. Chung, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Music, released the physical CD and digital albums worldwide on June 14, 2022.

In a new book, "Reimagining Internationalization and International Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities", edited by Krishna Bista and Anthony Pinder (published by Palgrave Macmillan, June 2022).

Rosetta E. Ross, Ph.D., professor of religion, received a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation to develop digital and physical archives to highlight Black women religious leaders’ contributions to religious communities and activism in the United States. Ross and Monique Moultrie, associate professor of religious studies at Georgia State, are co-principal investigators on the three-year project.

Consortium representatives of The Institute for the International Education of Students (IES Abroad) comprising of over 260 leading U.S. Colleges and Universities have elected 'Dimeji Togunde, Ph.D., Spelman College's vice provost for Global Education and professor of international studies, as a member of the Academic Council of IES Abroad.

Alexandria Lockett, Ph.D. assistant professor of English at Spelman College, has been awarded the Outstanding Book Award for 2021 by the International Writing Centers Association for the book, "Learning from the Lived experiences of Graduate Student Writers" written with Shannon Madden, Michele Eodice and Kirsten Edwards.

Angelino Viceisza, Ph.D., associate professor in economics, and Danielle Dickens, Ph.D., associate professor in psychology, have been awarded a $632,515 grant from the National Science Foundation.

Michelle Gaines, Ph.D., assistant professor of chemistry & biochemistry, received a two-year NSF HBCU-UP-LEAPS-MPS grant entitled “Surface Morphological Effect on Biomolecular Attachment to Responsive Microgels for Tunable Biomimetic 3D-Cell Culture Scaffolds.”

Andrea Johnson, Ph.D., assistant professor in computer and information sciences, received an award to join the Consortium for Enabling Technologies and Innovation (ETI).

Mary Van Vleet, Ph.D., assistant professor in chemistry and biochemistry, received a three-year NSF HBCU-UP-RIA grant entitled "Next-Generation, Atomically-Anistropic Force Field Generation for Carbohydrates."

Spelman College recently announced the recipients of its inaugural Carnegie Corporation of New York and Rockefeller Foundation Distinguished Research/Creative Scholars award.

Administrators in higher education like Mary Schmidt Campbell, Ph.D., president of Spelman College, are considering how to adapt to a post-COVID-19 learning environment.