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SOC Alumni Spotlight   A. Van Jordan, Henry Rutgers Presidential Professor at Rutgers University  A. Van Jordan photo by Austin Thomson   SOC alumnus and poet A. Van Jordan has been named the first Henry Rutgers Presidential Professor at Rutgers University.   Jordan is known for the breadth of vision and depth of insight in his writing. He will join the Newark Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program in the English Department at Rutgers in fall 2014.       Jordan has been a full professor since 2009 at the University of Michigan. He has received a long list of noteworthy awards and honors. Reviewers often remark on his ability to shed light on human relations and approach a broad range of subjects from quantum physics to classic and contemporary film. Jordan has received the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award, a   Pushcart Prize,   a Times (of London) Literary Supplement Best Book of the Year award, and selection for the anthology Best
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Summer Spotlight on Faculty and Students Jennifer Thomas, MJFC faculty MOORLAND-SPINGARN RESEARCH CENTER SUMMER FACULTY SCHOLAR Assistant Professor Jennifer Thomas , Media Journalism and Film (MJFC) department accepted in the 2014 Moorland-Spingarn Research Center (MSRC) Summer Faculty Scholars program. She is Howard alum, who joined the faculty last year. The title of her research is Gravity and Grace of the Gridiron Queen: The Legacy of Miss Howard University .”                                        ### GERMANY EMBASSY YOUNG JOURNALIST PROGRAM SOC Students Olivia Phifer (Broadcast Journalism) and Bianca Sullivan (Legal Communications) completed the German Embassy's Young Journalist Washington Program. They were part of a group of students from universities in Germany, Columbia, UNC Chapel Hill, and Berkeley that spent a week in workshops on media and society in the U.S. and Germany.    Howard is the only HBCU invited to participate in the program.    The students
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Howard Remembers Journalist and Professor Raymond Boone   http://www.howard.edu/newsroom/releases/2014/20140605HowardUniversityRemembers%20JournalistAndProfessorRaymondBooneSr.html Howard University home page:  http://www.howard.edu   Services for Mr. Boone will be held at 12:30 p.m., Tuesday, June 10th, at New Deliverance Evangelistic Church, 1701 Turner Road, Richmond, VA, 23225. A wake service will be held 5-7 p.m, Monday, June 9th, at St. Philip's Episcopal Church, 2900 Hanes Ave, Richmond, VA 23222.             .  
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SOC former professor and publisher dies Publisher and former SOC journalism professor Raymond H. Boone Sr. died June 3rd at his home in Richmond, Virginia. Boone, 76, was publisher of the weekly Richmond (Va.) Free Press. He taught journalism at Howard for about nine years . Richard Prince's Journal-isms column: http://mije.org/richardprince/raymond-h-boone-feisty-publisher-dies-76