Dr. Carolyn B Brooks, Dean of the School of Agricultural and Natural Sciences and the 1890 Research Director at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES), will address the topic of the Land Grant Commitment to Higher Education for All.Attached is her speech in a PDF format
Since the mid 1990s Brooks has served on a number of boards and committees of the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges (NASULGC); held several offices and chaired numerous committees for the administrator associations of the 1890 land grant institutions; served on numerous review panels for USDA, NSF, and USAID, the National Research Council and the Middle States Commission on Higher Education. Presently and previously serves(ed) as a member of Minority Education Committees of the Board of Education and Training, the American Society for Microbiology. She is featured as one of the 100 Distinguished African American Scientists in Distinguished African American Scientists of the 20th Century; and recipient of numerous awards including the Maryland Outstanding Educator Award from the Maryland Association for Higher Education, and a Recipient of the First Annual White House Initiative for Historically Black Colleges and Universities - Faculty Award for "Excellence in Science and Technology," and the "Woman of the Year Award", Maryland Eastern Shore Branch of the National Association of University Women.
Either through research programs or as a consultant or participant on federal review teams, Brooks has been involved in activities in Costa Rica, Honduras, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Tanzania, Malawi, Egypt, South Africa, Cameroon, Togo, Nigeria and Senegal.