Join us for
“A Conversation with Raymond L. Johnson”
A Zoom Webinar - Tuesday, December 1, 2020 - 6-7:30 p.m.
Zoom ID: 990 1514 2073 • Passcode: 786333
Raymond Johnson came to Rice University in 1963 to pursue a Ph.D. in mathematics. After a year working as a graduate assistant and awaiting the outcome of a suit meant to bar him from the university, he enrolled at Rice in 1964. Johnson became one of the university’s first African American students (two black undergraduates, Charles Freeman and Jacqueline McCauley enrolled the next year). Following his graduation, Johnson went on to teach at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he eventually chaired the Mathematics department. At Maryland, he developed a national reputation for mentoring graduate students, work that culminated in Johnson being awarded the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring.
Join us for an important conversation about the long span of the fight for racial justice at American universities.
Moderated by Alexander X. Byrd ’90 and Akilah Mance ’05