by Kandiss Edwards
Could 14, 2025
Esteemed Morehouse Alumni, Dr. F DuBois Bowman, will assume the place of president at his alma mater as HBCUs face crucial funding cuts.
Morehouse School has named its latest President, Dr. F. DuBois Bowman; the HBCU launched its determination in a press launch.
Dr. Bowman, a distinguished public well being chief and biostatistician, has been appointed because the thirteenth president of Morehouse School, efficient July 15. A 1992 Morehouse alumnus, Dr. Bowman at the moment serves because the dean of the College of Michigan College of Public Well being and holds the Roderick J. Little Collegiate Professorship of Biostatistics.
Dr. Bowman will succeed President David A. Thomas, who concludes his tenure in June.
As a Morehouse Alumni, he has maintained robust ties to Morehouse School, serving as a mentor and facilitating a pipeline program for college students from Morehouse and Spelman faculties to the College of Michigan. In 2019, he obtained the school’s highest alumni honor, the Bennie Trailblazer Award.
The president-elect is famend for his analysis within the statistical evaluation of advanced knowledge units, significantly in understanding neurological and psychological well being issues corresponding to Parkinson’s illness, Alzheimer’s illness, melancholy, and schizophrenia. His work has contributed to extra customized therapeutic approaches and has explored how environmental elements have an effect on mind perform in youth.
On the College of Michigan, he leads a top-ranked faculty of public well being with over 1,300 college students and an annual sponsored analysis portfolio exceeding $100 million. His management has fostered a tradition of inclusion, innovation, and repair, launching interdisciplinary initiatives to deal with public well being challenges like firearm harm prevention, well being fairness, and infectious illness management.
He’s a member of the Nationwide Academy of Drugs, a fellow of the American Statistical Affiliation, and a fellow of the American Affiliation for the Development of Science.
Bowman is greater than aware of the tradition of the school and can, hopefully function slot in these tumultuous occasions, because the federal authorities continues chopping funding to greater training establishments.
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