Alumni News
CNN and TheGrio's April Ryan on Historic 25 Years Covering the White House — and 5 Presidents Up Close
In the 25 years that Morgan State University alum April Ryan has been covering the White House — now the longest-serving Black woman in the press corps — she has had plenty of encounters with whomever was in the West Wing at the time.
Morgan Alum Alicia Hynson Prepares to go From the Lab to the Delivery Room
Alicia Hynson is a traveling lab scientist. She spends, on average, 13 weeks at a time in hospital labs in remote locations around the United States and overseas. She initially majored in biology at Morgan State University in Baltimore, with her sights on medical school. At the advice of her mentors, she considered how gaining lab experience would be the quicker path to employment and graduated from Morgan with a bachelor’s in medical technology.
Morgan State Alum Creates Web Series to Promote Mental Health
Meet Brandon Johnson, M.H.S., MCHES, a Morgan State alumnus, mental health educator and the creator of the Black Mental Wellness Lounge. Johnson is also an advocate for suicide prevention.
25 Black Marylanders to Watch
Shelonda Stokes’ career has come full circle since her days as an East Baltimore teen who cleaned pavilions in Baltimore’s Harborplace for minimum wage. With a degree in electrical engineering from Morgan State University, Stokes had spent much of her professional life seeking creative ways to solve problems, including as president and CEO of GreiBO Media, a Baltimore-based marketing and production studio she co-founded in 2001.
More on Baltimore-Born NASA Scientist and Inventor, Morgan Alum Valerie Thomas
Morgan State University graduate—scientist and inventor Valerie M. Thomas—went on to have a trailblazing career at NASA, where she invented technology that led to the development of 3-D imaging.
Morgan Alum Shapes Narrative for Nat Geo Black History Series as Editor
Morgan State University has given Carla Wills many opportunities to explore her interests, from STEM to history to journalism. This week, the veteran journalist is celebrating her role as executive editor of a new series from National Geographic that challenged her to utilize much of the knowledge and many of the skills she has gained in those areas.
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