The Spelman College Board of Trustees announced Friday that Dr. Ayanna Howard has been appointed the 12th president in the HBCU’s history.
The higher education leader joins Spelman from Ohio State University, where she served as the dean of the College of Engineering and held the Monte Ahuja Endowed Dean’s Chair.
In addition to leadership roles held at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Georgia Institute of Technology, she is also a highly respected roboticist and entrepreneur.
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