Appointments

Robert Seniors was named vice president for enterprise information technology at Florida A&M University. He has been serving in the post on an interim basis. He is a graduate of Florida A&M and has 10 years of IT experience in the corporate world.

Cynthia Hughes Harris was named provost and vice president for academic affairs at Florida A&M University. She has been serving as dean of the School of Allied Health Sciences at the university.

She holds bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees from the University of Illinois.

• Valerie L. Green was appointed chief general counsel at North Carolina A&T State University. She was the associate counsel for the public school system in Baltimore, Maryland.

A graduate of Virginia Union University, Green earned her law degree at the University of Baltimore.

• Paula T. Hammond was promoted to Bayer Professor in Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Hammond holds a master’s degree from Georgia Tech and a bachelor’s degree and a Ph.D. from MIT.

• Patrick Hannah was appointed special assistant to the chancellor and director of government and community relations at North Carolina Central University in Durham. He was the vice president for government affairs at the Greater Durham Chamber of Commerce.