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SUMMARY:Keynote: Engineering Diversity Fair
LOCATION:Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium\, Howe Hall
URL:http://www.lectures.iastate.edu/lecture/18804
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 nFreeman Hrabowski has served as president of the University
  of Maryland\, Baltimore County\, since 1992.  His research 
 and publications focus on science and math education\, with 
 special emphasis on minority participation and performance.\
 n--------------------\nHrabowski is coauthor of Beating the 
 Odds and Overcoming the Odds\, both of which focus on parent
 ing and high-achieving African American males and females in
  science. He was named one of America's Best Leaders by U.S.
  News & World Report in 2008 and is a recipient of the prest
 igious McGraw Prize in Education and the U.S. Presidential A
 ward for Excellence in Science\, Mathematics\, and Engineeri
 ng Mentoring. A child-leader in the Civil Rights Movement\, 
 Dr. Hrabowski was prominently featured in Spike Lee's 1997 d
 ocumentary\, \"Four Little Girls\,\" on the racially motivat
 ed bombing in 1963 of Birmingham's Sixteenth Street Baptist 
 Church.\n\nContact: lectures@iastate.edu\nPhone: 515-294-993
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