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Howard University Office of Research: Research One (R1) Carnegie Classification
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Research Reimagined, Innovation Redefined
Howard’s research priorities address humanity’s most urgent needs through groundbreaking discovery, strategic partnerships, collaboration, and capacity building. Throughout its history, the university has been in the forefront of creating new knowledge by convening experts and investigators from around the world to tackle persistent challenges and unlock future opportunities. In this way, the university serves as a research laboratory, a collaborative hub, a dynamic classroom, and a center of innovation.
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Howard’s multi-year University Affiliated Research Center (UARC) contract with the U.S. Defense Department positions the university at the forefront of tactical autonomy, artificial intelligence, and national security research through the Research Institute for Tactical Autonomy
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Karl Thompson, Ph.D.
Microbiology Researcher
Karl Thompson, Ph.D.
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Microbiology Researcher
In the bustling halls of Howard University's Interdisciplinary Research Building, Room 319 is more than just a laboratory—it's a hub of scientific discovery led by Dr. Karl Thompson, an associate professor in the department of Microbiology within the College of Medicine. His research, which delves deep into the microscopic world, is unique in its focus on the intersection of bacteria and human health, a field increasingly recognized for its potential to revolutionize medical science.
Talitha Washington, Ph.D.
Data Science Researcher
Talitha Washington, Ph.D.
Title:
Data Science Researcher
Affiliation:
Executive Director, Center for Applied Data Science and Analytics, Sean McCleese Endowed Chair in Computer Science, Race, and Social Justice
The Howard University Center for Applied Data Science and Analytics has named Talitha Washington, Ph.D., as its new executive director. Through research and academic programming, the center focuses on using data to achieve new insights into long-standing societal challenges and to protect the exploitation of data to harm historically marginalized groups. Washington will also hold the Sean McCleese Endowed Chair in Computer Science, Race, and Social Justice, which supports scholarship, teaching, policy development and partnership building to ensure that emerging technologies and data analysis are equitable in their design and deployed to make the United States – and the world – a more just and inclusive place. Washington is also the director of the U.S. National Science Foundation’s National Data Science Alliance (NSF NDSA).
Bahiyyah M. Muhammad, Ph.D.
Sociology Researcher
Bahiyyah M. Muhammad, Ph.D.
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Sociology Researcher
Affiliation:
Associate Professor of Criminology, Department of Sociology
Research by Howard Associate Professor Bahiyyah Muhammad, Ph.D. shows that children of the incarcerated often defy societal expectations. Dr. Muhammad is an associate professor of criminology in the Department of Sociology and Howard and specializes in the effects of the criminal legal system and injustices experienced by families and children of incarcerated parents. She is the founding curator of Policing Inside Out and the Higher Education in Prison programming across the HU Campus. She was recognized as Faculty of the Year in 2014, 2015, 2017 and 2019, and has won numerous awards for her service to the incarcerated and detained. She was awarded several fellowships, including the U.S. Department of State's Franklin Fellowship, and served as an investigator on the five million dollar Mellon Just Futures grant for the Howard University Social Justice Consortium.