UMBC President Hrabrowski to address commencement
The 173rd MUSC commencement ceremony will be held at 9 a.m. on May 17 on the campus horseshoe. Approximately 744 students are expected to receive degrees from the university’s six colleges.
Freeman
A. Hrabowski III, Ph.D., president of the University of Maryland,
Baltimore County, will present the commencement address.
Hrabowski also will be honored with a Doctor of Science, Honoris Causa. Six other individuals will receive a Doctor of Humane Letters. They are:
Henry E. Brown Jr., U.S. congressman representing the First District of South Carolina which includes all or portions of Berkeley, Charleston, Dorchester, Georgetown and Horry counties;
Stanley H. Feldberg, retired president of Zayre Corporation and chairman of the board, Storm Eye Institute;
Theodora L. Feldberg, retired associate director of development, Harvard Medical School and trustee emeritus, MUSC Health Sciences Foundation;
Reuben M. Greenberg, chief of police, City of Charleston Police Department;
Hugh K. Leatherman, member of the South Carolina Senate, representing Darlington and Florence counties since 1981;
Edwin Pearlstine of Charleston, retired founder and CEO of Pearlstine Distributors, Inc.
Hrabowski has served as president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County since May 1992. He joined the university in l987, serving first as vice provost, then as executive vice president. His research and publications focus on science and math education, with a special emphasis on issues involving minority participation.
Under Hrabowki’s leadership the University of Maryland received The U.S. Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring in recognition of the nationally acclaimed, multi-million dollar Meyerhoff Scholars Program for gifted African American undergraduates in science and engineering.
He is co-author of the book, Beating the Odds, focusing on parenting
and high-achieving African American males in science, published by Oxford
University Press in 1998; and Overcoming the Odds, on successful African
American females in science, published by Oxford University Press in 2001.