Spotlight on future leaders: A look at some of UDC’s Spring 2022 graduates
UDC is proud to showcase some of our outstanding graduates. Our students showed tremendous adaptability, flexibility and steadfast determination as they progressed toward graduation. We celebrate them as future leaders and share their stories about who they are and what their time at UDC has meant to them in their own words.
Civil Rights Lawyer, Advocate Benjamin L. Crump to give Keynote Address at UDC 2022 Commencement
Attorney and founder and principal owner of Ben Crump Law, Crump has been listed among the Most Influential People of 2021 by TIME100, Ebony Magazine’s Power 100 Most Influential African Americans, The National Trial Lawyers Top100 Lawyers and the 2014 NNPA Newsmaker of the Year. He is being recognized for his significant…
Nourishing America Tour: UDC hosts more than 35 experts to tackle food equity and sustainability challenge
UDC, Food Tank, and Bowery Farming hosted a summit entitled “AgroEcology: Towards a Sustainable and Equitable Food Systems Model” on Wednesday, April 20, in the UDC Student Center on the Van Ness campus. Part of the Nourish America Tour, the event boasted more than 35 speakers, including UDC President Ronald Mason Jr. and Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton.
Alumnus gives back to his school and community with gifts from the Ellen Show
For 27 years, band director Darrell Watson has been changing lives through music at the Frank W. Ballou Senior High School. His award-winning band has been chronicled in a documentary and invited to the White House and the Ellen DeGeneres Show, where he received $300,000 for the southeast D.C. public school and band through multiple appearances on the show.
SEAS students take first place honors in the AMIE Design Challenge
SEAS students take first place honors in the AMIE Design Challenge – The UDC School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) team surpassed Florida A&M University and Tuskegee University to win first prize and $10,800 in the 2022 Advancing Minorities’ Interest in Engineering (AMIE) Design Challenge held virtually on April 1.
UDC David A. Clarke Law School ranked No. 5 for clinical law training in 2023 U.S. News & World Report graduate school rankings
UDC Assistant Professor of Psychology wins prestigious one point six million NSF grant award
UDC President Mason shares his professional journey at event aimed at helping young boys and men of color succeed
