Freshman Isaiah Swilley from Bourbonnais, Illinois, takes a practice dive at the Burr Gymnasium Pool. Howard is the only HBCU with a Division I swimming and diving team.
Winter/Spring 2025
In February 2025, Howard received a “Research One” research activity designation, the highest in academia. Howard is the only historically Black college or university to ever earn the designation.
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There is no doubt that Howard has earned its share of visibility over the past 158 years, but even by Howard standards, the past months have been breathtaking. From a once-in-a-century Homecoming to the achievement of R1 status, Howard has ridden wave after wave of excellence. Now, take a front row seat to relive Howard history as it unfolded.
When you are recognized nationally for both the top undergraduate business and traditional MBA programs among HBCUs, you might be tempted to rest on your laurels. But Howard’s School of Business is stepping on the gas.
Publications by past and present Howard University alumni, students, and faculty.
Here's a look at just at a few Bison who are open for business with products ready for sale.
The 86th Miss Howard and other Howard student entrepreneurs are redefining the “Howard hustle.”
This edition of Howard Magazine is filled with stories demonstrating our renewed urgency and commitment as a leader at the intersection of intellect, innovation, research, and culture.
Kamala Harris' ability to meet the moment— while demonstrating grace, compassion, intelligence, adaptability, and, yes, joy— showed the world how HBCUs like Howard University prepare its students to succeed in a society that has yet to fulfill the promise of equality and justice for all.
The grandeur of Howard Homecoming’s 100th anniversary, accented by pride in Kamala Harris’ ascendancy, attracted worldwide media attention and brought throngs of alumni back to the Mecca.
Citi Chief Financial Officer Mark Mason encourages students to be bold and lean into the relationships they are forming at Howard.
Howard University’s soccer team became one of the nation’s top programs in the 1970s — becoming the first HBCU to win a national title in 1971. Today's women's soccer program wants to repeat history.
New strategic planning for Howard's future is taking form.
Capturing and conveying HBCU narratives that affirm our humanity through research is not just a strategy but an essential acknowledgment to ourselves and the world.
Senior Amir Ince is working with his faculty mentors to bridge technology and healthcare.
With the strategic guidance of Dr. Bruce Jones, Howard has garnered record levels of research funding and is increasingly trusted to lead collaboration between educational institutions, grant funders, government agencies, non-profits, and industry partners.
Dr. Karl Thompson, associate professor in the College of Medicine and graduate program director of the University’s Department of Microbiology, has been awarded the National Institutes of Health’s $2 million Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) grant.
Sophomore biology major and chemistry minor Sophie Lee is a Karsh STEM scholar immersed in research she hopes will help affect change.
After decades of struggle and making the highest sacrifices to attain the right to vote, how — and where — has the Black community made their electoral voices heard?
Hunter-Richardson’s research, still in its early stages, examines how different communities — particularly African Americans — identify credible information about cancer prevention, such as the latest guidelines on when to begin screenings.
Dr. Charles Kim's Brownout Detector is Transforming Fault Detection
Washington is showing how data can be used to solve historically complex problems.
How Research by Howard’s Roland Scott Changed Global Approaches to Sickle Cell Disease Forever.
In February 2025, Howard received a “Research One” research activity designation, the highest in academia. Howard is the only historically Black college or university to ever earn the designation.
Howard's student leaders have no intention of waiting for permission to create change.
Howard healthcare professionals have been immortalized through the work of Augusta’s Lucy Laney Craft Museum, which unveiled a statue in late 2024 honoring Stoney, Scipio S. Johnson (M.D. 1904) and James E. Carter Jr. (D.D.S. ’30).
Alumna Roberta Flack Was a Global Artistic Trailblazer
New Jersey Supreme Court Justice James Coleman Jr., a Legal Pioneer
Col. Lowell Blagmon Commanded the 2071st Army Reserve Unit
