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HAMPTON, Va (May 20, 2025) — Hampton University proudly announces the recipients of the 2025 Presidential Grantmanship Awards, the University’s highest recognition for faculty excellence in securing competitive research funding. This year’s distinguished honorees are Dr. Deidre Gibson, Chair of the Department of Marine and Environmental Science, and Dr. William Moore, Professor of Atmospheric and

By Mahogany Waldon, Director of University Communications June 5th marks World Environment Day, a global initiative led by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to raise awareness and action for environmental protection. The day is a platform for individuals, communities, and governments to come together and address environmental challenges.   Along the banks of the Hampton River, where salt

By Mahogany Waldon, Director of University Communications In the vast and unforgiving waters of the Southern Ocean, where icebergs drift like sleeping giants and the wind carries the secrets of centuries, lives one of nature’s most elusive predators.   The leopard seal.   The catlike pinniped is best known as a threat to penguins and other antarctic

Board of Trustees welcomes science and investment leaders Dr. Daniel Linzer and Mr. Tyson Anwar Pratcher ’97; Michael D. Armstrong ’94 named new Chair following retirement of Wesley A. Coleman II ’71  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   HAMPTON, Va. (June 10, 2025) — Hampton University is proud to announce the appointment of two distinguished professionals to its

Only HBCU Focused on Harnessing the Sun’s Power for Limitless Clean Energy  Hampton, Va. (June 17, 2025) – Hampton University is setting the scientific world ablaze with an electrifying breakthrough in fusion research, marking a historic leap for HBCUs and the future of clean energy. With the launch of the STAR_Lite project, Hampton is making

HAMPTON, Va. (June 16, 2025) — Hampton University is proud to announce that two members of its faculty have been selected as recipients of the highly competitive 2025 American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) HBCU Fellowships and Grants. These awards, designed to advance humanistic scholarship and teaching at Historically Black Colleges and Universities, highlight the

HAMPTON, Va. (July 1, 2025)— Hampton University is turning heads in the global agriculture scene, thanks to a high-impact discovery by Dr. Naoufal Lakhssassi, plant geneticist and professor in the Department of Biological Sciences. In a landmark study published in Nature Communications Biology (2025), Dr. Lakhssassi and collaborators at the University of Missouri and Southern