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Freeman A. Hrabowski,
III
 Freeman
A. Hrabowski, III, has served as President of UMBC (The
University of Maryland, Baltimore County) since May, 1992. His
research and publications focus on science and math education,
with special emphasis on minority participation and performance.
He serves
as a consultant to the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes
of Health, the National Academies, and universities and school systems nationally. He
also sits on several corporate and civic boards. Examples include the
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation,
Constellation Energy Group, the France-Merrick Foundation, Marguerite Casey
Foundation (Chair), McCormick & Company, Inc., and the Urban Institute.
Examples
of recent awards or honors include election to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
and the American Philosophical Society; receiving the prestigious McGraw
Prize in Education, the U.S. Presidential Award for Excellence in
Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring, and the
Columbia University Teachers
College Medal for Distinguished Service; being named
a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement
of Science and Marylander of the Year by
the editors of the Baltimore Sun; and being listed among Fast
Company magazine’s first “Fast 50 Champions of Innovation” in
business and technology. He also holds a number of honorary degrees,
including most recently from Haverford College, Princeton University, Duke
University, the University of Illinois, the University of Alabama-Birmingham,
Gallaudet University, Goucher College, the Medical University of South Carolina,
and Binghamton University.
He has authored
numerous articles and co-authored two books, Beating the Odds and Overcoming
the Odds (Oxford University Press), focusing on parenting
and high-achieving African American males and females in science. Both books are used by
universities, school systems, and community groups around the country.
A child-leader
in the Civil Rights Movement, Dr. Hrabowski was prominently featured
in Spike Lee’s 1997 documentary, Four Little Girls, on the
racially motivated bombing in 1963 of Birmingham’s Sixteenth Street Baptist Church.
Born in
1950 in Birmingham, Alabama, Dr. Hrabowski graduated at 19 from
Hampton Institute with highest honors in mathematics. At the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, he received his M.A. (mathematics) and four years later his
Ph.D. (higher education administration/statistics) at age 24.
(June 2008)
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