Dr. Portia Holmes Shields, president of Albany State University, has been elected to the board of directors of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. She will serve a three-year term. Shields earned a bachelor's degree in education from the District of Columbia Teachers College (now the University of the District of Columbia); a master's degree in education from George Washington University; and a doctorate in early childhood and elementary education from the University of Maryland.
Dr. Isiah Warner, Louisiana State University's Phillip W. West Professor of Chemistry, has been appointed by Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala to the National Advisory General Medical Sciences Council. Composed of leaders in the biological and medical sciences, education, and public affairs, the council reviews applications for research and research training grants that have been assigned to the National Institute of General Medical Sciences. Warner graduated cum laude with a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Southern University; and earned a doctorate in analytical chemistry from the University of Washington.
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