Mildred Dean Huff Ofosu, PhD

Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs
Sponsored Programs and Research

Dr. Mildred Huff Ofosu is the Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs, Sponsored Programs and Research. This Unit is located in the Montebello Complex, Suite D302. Some staff members under her leadership are: Director of Title III, Director of Sponsored Programs, Budget Officer, Grants Specialist, Grants Associate, and Contract Specialist. Dr. Ofosu has 16 years of administrative experience in sponsored programs and research and currently oversees $30 million in competitive grants and contracts awards at Morgan State University. She received the Ph.D. degree in Immunogenetics from Howard University, College of Medicine, Washington, DC. She conducted postdoctoral studies at the National Institutes of Health/ NIAID. Dr. Ofosu served as an Extramural Associate at NIH and more recently, she served as President of the National Sponsored Programs Administrators Alliance for HBCUs.

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

• Fourteen years of administrative experience in sponsored programs and research and currently manages $25 Million+ competitive grant and contract award funds at Morgan State University.
• Twenty-three years of teaching experience ranging from high school to university level in Science, Biology, Microbiology and Immunology.
• Organized and served as presenter for local, national, international seminars, workshops, and conferences for the past ten years.
• Served as reviewer for NSF, NIH, USEd, EPA
• Federal Relations Coordinator.
• Former institutional administrator for several consortia and partnerships between Delaware State University and other institutions of higher education/non-profit organizations and industries.
• Former President of National Sponsored Programs Administrators Alliance (NSPAA) of HBCUs
• Immediate Past Chair of External Relations Committee for Society of Research Administrators (SRA)
• Attended 2002 Institute for Educational Management and Leadership Conference

  Faculty Status

  Associate Professor of Biology and Tenured while at Delaware State University, Dover, DE 19901

EDUCATION

Institution & Location	Degree	Year Conf.	Field of Study
Alcorn State University Lorman, Mississippi	BS	1967	Biology
Tuskegee University Tuskegee, Alabama	MS	1969	Biology (Cytology)
Wayne State University Detroit, Michigan	--	1969-71	Education
Atlanta University Atlanta, Georgia	--	1974-76	Education
Howard University Washington, District of Columbia	Ph.D.	1984	Immunogenetics Microbiology
POSTDOCTORAL EDUCATION
National Institutes of Health (NIAID); Bethesda, Maryland	--	1987-88	Immunogenetics

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

International Programs: Visited several townships and worked with youth and University students at Peninsula Technikon, Cape Town. Has vast experience in setting up precollege programs and educational activities. Provided advice to a students securing her doctorate degree at a university near to Peninsula Technikon.

Each year supplies are delivered to two or more secondary and primary schools in Accra, Ghana, and Gbetsile, Tema, Ghana. This is done via the LINKS organization.

2002-Present:	Assistant Vice President for Sponsored Programs; supervises ten staff members.
1995-2002:	DSU's Administrative Coordinator for: National Science Foundation FastLane Project; Mid-Atlantic Consortium with W. K. Kellogg; Rutgers University is the prime Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (formerly Financing Administration) HBCU NOAA Consortium Member of Council On Governmental Affairs, NASULGC
1990-2002:	Director, Research and Engineering Apprentice Program
2001; 1993-97:	Member, National Science Foundation Review Committee for Model Institutions for Excellence, and Integrating Research into Education, Arlington, Virginia
2001-2002:	Member of Biotechnology Administrative Team; Delaware State University
2001-2002:	Appointed by Governor Ruth Ann Minor to serve on Workforce Investment Board
1999-Present:	Consultant for NCURA; UNCF Special Programs; and NAFEO
1998-Present:	Appointed to serve on Administrative Committee for Partnership between Federal Highway Administration, Delaware Department of Transportation and Delaware State University
1996-2001:	Chair, External Relations Committee, Society of Research Administrators
1997-Present:	HBCU Air Force Board of Advisory Committee Member Made presentation at Minority Access, Inc. Conference on Delaware State University (DSU) and its accomplishments in research and success of its science students (2000); Received award for DSU as a Role Model Institution and is responsible for nominating two professors who received awards as Role Models at the Minority Access, Inc. Conference in Washington, DC, Nov. 2001.
1997-2000:	Co-PI for Prostate Cancer Awareness Among African Americans; Lincoln University was the prime institution
1988-2001:	Director of Immunogenetics Laboratory, Luna I. Mishoe Science Center, Delaware State University
1987:	Sponsored Research Officer
1989-90:	Extramural Associate; National Institutes of Health; Bethesda, MD
1993-1997:	Member, MBRS Review Subcommittee, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
1989-1993:	Director of Intensive Summer Science Program and Director of Saturday Academy
1987-93; 1996:	MBRS Program Director

GRANTS (Most recent)

• Research and Engineering Apprentice Program. Funded by Academy of Applied Science; 03/01/01/ to 02/28/02. $5,000
• Mid-Atlantic Consortium. Funded by Rugters University; 10/01/01 to 09/30/02. $26,000
• Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; 07/18/01 to 01/21/02. $30,000
• Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund. 05/01/01 to 04/30/02. $1,000
• Co-PI, Girls in Mathematics and Science, Delaware Fund for Women, 2000-2001, $10,000 and $5,000 Mathematical Association of America, Dr. Mazen Shanin is the PI of both projects.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

American Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics
American Society of Microbiology
Thyroid Foundation of America
Society of Research Administrators (SRA)
National Sponsored Programs Administrators Alliance (NSPAA) for HBCUs (Served as President for two years)
National Council for University Research Administrators (NCURA)
HBCU Research Network
Steering Committee Chair, Historically Black Colleges & Universities/Minority Institutions Consortium for National & International Programs

OTHER MEMBERSHIPS

National Council for Negro Women
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
National Association for Female Executives
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. Immediate Past Vice President & Program Chair
Dover, Delaware Chapter of the LINKS, Inc.; Vice President

COMMUNITY SERVICE

Unit Board Member, Greater Dover Boys & Girls Club, Dover, Delaware
Advisory Board Member for Forum to Advance Minorities in Engineering
Director of Kent County FAME Program
Scholarship Committee Member for Mayfair I, Mayfair II, Crossgates, Wedgewood Civic Association
Member of Circle of Friends Program that focuses on seminars about cervical cancer, breast cancer and other illnesses that affect women
Volunteer at Towne Point Elementary School
Volunteer to decorate Green Valley Pavillion Nursing Home (annually)

PUBLICATIONS

• M. H. Ofosu, C. Brown, W. Cheatham, W. L. Henry and C. Austin. "TAP1 Polymorphism Identified in African-American Graves' Disease Patients", Immunological Investigations, 27 (4&5), 281-289 (1998).
• M. H. Ofosu, G. Dunston, L. Henry, Dr. Ware, W. Cheatham, A. Brembridge, C. Brown and L. Alarif. "HLA-DQ3 is Associated with Graves' Disease in African Americans", Immunological Investigations, 25 (172), 1-3-110 (1996).
• Ofosu, Mildred, et. Al., Science (Significant Contributions made in Volume 2), Saturday Academy Process for Accessing Mathematics - Based Careers, (Editors: Nellouise Watkins and Nan Manuel), Oak Tree Publishing Co., 1990.
• Dunston, Georgia M., Henry, Lester W., Christian, James, Ofosu, Mildred D., and Callender, Clive O. "HLA-DR3, DQ Heterogeneity in American Blacks is Associated with Susceptibility and Resistance to Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus", Transportation Proceedings, 21 (1), 653-655 (1989).
• Dunston, Georgia M., Halder, Rebat M., and Ofosu, Mildred D., "HLA-D Region Antigens in Black Patients with Vitiligo", Journal of Society for Investigative Dermatology, April (1988).
• Ofosu, M., Castro, O, and Alarif, L., "Sickle Cell Leg Ulcers are Associated with HLA-B35 and Cw4 Antigens", Archives of Dermatology, 123, 482-484 (1987).
• Ofosu, M. D., Saunders, D. A., Castro, O., and Alarif, L., "Association of HLA and Autoantibody in Transfused Sickle Cell Disease Patients", American Journal of Hematology, 22, 27-33 (1986).
  

AWARDS

1. Extramural Associates Annual Update Meeting, Bethesda, MD, February 2002
2. NAACP Freedom Fund Banquet Award, Dover, DE, October 2001
3. Outstanding Achievement in Education, Wilmington, DE, April 2000
4. Humanitarian and Community Outreach Award, Mt. Zion AME Church, February 2000
5. Excellence in Community Service Award, Delaware State University, May 1992.
6. Delaware State University received an Award as a Role Model Institution, November 2001 due to the untiring efforts of Dr. M. Ofosu preparing materials and making a presentation.