Valerie Sheares Ashby selected as next leader of UMBC
Our community is pleased to welcome Dr. Sheares Ashby, currently dean of Duke University’s Trinity College of Arts & Sciences, as UMBC’s next president, starting August 2022.
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MAY 26, 2022
HHMI launches $1.5 billion Freeman Hrabowski Scholars program to support diversity, innovation in biomedical research
HHMI is honoring President Hrabowski for his decades of leadership in growing and diversifying the pipeline of Ph.D.-level researchers. “We should all be encouraged by HHMI’s commitment to changing the face of science in America,” Hrabowski says.
