Wayne Patterson, Project Coordinator. Professor of Computer Science and Senior Fellow in the Graduate School. He has held faculty positions at Howard University, Princeton University, and the University of California – Berkeley. He has written numerous articles on ethics in computing.
Taft Broome, Civil Engineering and Professor of Engineering Ethics at Howard. Doctoral degree in Structural Mechanics at George Washington U and MS in Engineering Ethics, Renssaeler Polytechnic. Author of numerous papers on Engineering Ethics.
Fredrick Lombardo: Associate Professor, Clinical and Administrative Pharmacy Sciences. Directs principles of research course. Core Faculty and Coordinator for Health Care Ethics Course.
Edna Greene Medford: Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of History. Specializing in nineteenth century African-American history, she also teaches both graduate and undergraduate courses in Civil War and Reconstruction, Colonial America, the Jacksonian Era, and Comparative Slavery. Dr. Medford was educated at Hampton Institute (VA), the University of Illinois (Urbana), and the University of Maryland (College Park), where she received her Ph.D. in history. She lectures widely to scholarly and community-based groups and has presented to international audiences on topics from Alexis de Tocqueville to community building among American free blacks in Civil War-era Canada. Professor Medford was the Director for History of New York’s African Burial Ground Project and edited the project’s history report. She has published more than a dozen articles and book chapters on African-Americans, especially during the era of the Civil War.
Firyal Ross-Sheriff: Professor of Social Work and Director of the Graduate Program in Social Work. Research focus on victims of domestic violence, immigrants, refugees, ethnographic studies of Muslim women in American, and the homeless. Has conducted international programs in refugee resettlement in India, Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Orlando Taylor: Vice Provost for Research, Dean of the Graduate School , and Professor of Communications at Howard University . Prior to joining the Howard faculty in 1973, Vice Provost Taylor was a faculty member at Indiana University . He also has served as a Visiting Professor at Stanford University and Visiting Scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Dr. Taylor is a national leader in graduate education and within his discipline. He is currently or has served previously as a member of numerous national boards, including the Board of Directors of the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS), for which he served as Board Chair in 2001. He is also a Past President of the Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools and the National Communication Association. He is a former member of the Advisory Committee of the Directorate for Education and Human Resources of the National Science Foundation and of the Advisory Council at the National Institutes of Health. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research. As Graduate Dean at Howard University since 1993, Vice Provost Taylor has played a significant role in assuring Howard's continued national leadership in graduate education. Among other things, Howard produces more African American Ph.D. recipients than any research university in the United States .
Alvin Thornton: Associate Provost and Professor of Political Science. Former Legislative Assistant to Congressman John Conyers. Author of six books and book chapters, and many articles, on Black Politics.
Charles Verharen: Professor of Philosophy. Author of articles on ethics and race; ethics and the environment; philosophy and critical thinking.
Eric Walters: Assistant Professor of Biochemistry. Biochemistry of olfaction. Sociology and psychology of smell. Directs Laboratory on Cell and Molecular Biology of Olfaction.