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INSIDE MOREHOUSE, OCTOBER 2009
Entrepreneurship Center
Named National Advocate
of the Year
Vice President Joe Biden greets MCEC director Tiffany Bussey.
The Morehouse College
Entrepreneurship Center has
been named the National
Entrepreneurial Advocate of the
Year. MCEC director Tiffany
Bussey received the honor Aug.
28 during the 27th Annual
National Minority Enterprise
Development Week gala in
Washington, D.C.
Bussey also was greeted by
Vice President Joe Biden during
a reception at the White House.
The awardees represented
“best in class” as determined by
an independent panel of evalua
tors who considered the nomina
tions from across the United
States. MCEC was earlier select
ed as MBDA Regional Entrep
reneurial Advocate of the Year
before being named the national
award recipient.
MCEC was honored by
approximately 200 participants
at the event, including successful
minority entrepreneurs, corpo
rate and government supplier
diversity and purchasing repre
sentatives, and leaders of local
minority business organizations.
The MED Week Conference
is the largest federally sponsored
conference held on behalf of the
minority business enterprise
community.
CHANGING GEARS
Ebenezer Aka Jr., director of the Urban Studies Program, presented a paper titled
"National Ecological Footprints in Africa: Human Development Hierarchy and
Ecostructural Factors" at the National Social Science Association Professional
Development Conference, Oct. 4-6, in San Francisco, Calif.
/ * Harold V. Bennett, chairman of the Department of Philosophy and Religion, presided
over the section on Biblical Theology at the International Meeting of the Society of
Biblical Literature in Rome, Italy, June 30-July 4.
Vicki Crawford, co-director of the Morehouse College Martin Luther King Jr. Collection,
participated in a plenary session at the 2009 UNCF/Mellon Programs Conference on
Scholars Transforming the Academy: Advancing the Legacy of Black Intellectual
Thought and Activism held in Charlotte, N.C., October 1-3.
Mel Foster, professor of music, performed as "Ahijah the Prophet" in the three-act bib
lical opera. The Seduction of King Solomon, presented by the Americolor Opera
Alliance, Sept. 25-27, at Benjamin E. Mays High School in Atlanta.
President Robert M. Franklin Jr. 75 was presented the 2009 Hope Award by Essence
Magazine and The Southern Co. Franklin, along with U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee, musician
and activist Henry Panion III and journalist Suzanne Malveaux, was honored as archi
tect of change during the 2009 Congressional Black Caucus Legislative Conference in
Washington, D.C., on Sept. 25.
Walter E. Fluker, executive director of the Leadership Center at Morehouse College, has
been named the inaugural professor for the UNCF Skirball Scholar Program. He will
supervise a process of experiential and reflective learning with students at Morehouse
and Spelman colleges by using three interrelated ethical concepts and practices that
impact character, civility and community in the development of ethical leaders.
H Allen Jones, a junior music major, has been awarded the prestigious ASCAP Cherry
Lane Foundation/MUSIC ALIVE! Scholarship, given in honor of music legend Quincy
Jones. He was chosen because the singer/trombonist/pianist demonstrates musical tal
ent and proficiency in the areas where Quincy Jones made his mark: composing,
arranging, producing, conducting and performing. Allen Jones will be presented the
$2,500 scholarship check on Dec. 9 in New York.
New Hires
Roger Cusick, assistant professor. Political Science
Melissa Bailey, administrative assistant II, Alumni Relations
Damon Phillips, associate director, Alumni Relations
Mark Shivers, associate professor, Biology
Julie Sills, director, Corporate and Foundation Relations
Alicia Wilson, instructor, Business Administration and Economics
George Yuhasz, assistant professor. Mathematics
Please Submit Your
Nominations for Employee
of the Month
Send all nominations to the Office of Human Resources,
Gloster Hall Suite 100. The Employee of the Month will
be recognized effective the first day of each month and
ending the last day of the month.
Bryant Marks, assistant professor of psychology, is the principal investigator for a
$95,000 grant from the Department of Education to support the research of the
Morehouse Male Initiative. He is also co-principal investigator, along with Belinda
White, assistant professor of business administration and economics, on a $111,000
grant from UNCF/Ford for faculty enhancement.
a Alexandra Piester, assistant professor of biology, and her collaborators received a pro
gram project grant from the National Institutes of Health that will support research at
Morehouse, Georgia Tech, the University of Rochester, Emory University and the
University of Queensland in Australia. The grant will be funded for two years and sup
ports research at Morehouse at a level of $36,000 each year.
Henrietta Yang, director of the Chinese Studies Program, wrote the article "A Proposal
for Transcending Barriers of Intercultural Communication in Global Business: An
Instructional Innovation" that was in the Journal of Global Business Languages, Vol.14
(2009): Borders and Frontiers.
Sinead Younge, assistant professor of psychology, Wallace Sharif, assistant professor
of biology, Bryant Marks, assistant professor of psychology and Ulrica Wilson, assis
tant professor of mathematics, participated in the Quality Enhancement Education for
Minorities Network's Leadership Development Institute in Washingon, D.C., in August
2009. Each will continue in the program through August 2010.