Honors and Awards

• Janet Dickerson, vice president for campus life at Princeton University, received the Martin Luther King Day Journey Award for Lifetime Service from the university. Dickerson plans to retire this coming June.

• E. Dean Montgomery, executive vice president and chief financial officer at Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach, Florida, received the Meritorious Service Award from the South Association of Colleges and Schools for recognition of his service as a peer reviewer in the accreditation process.

The School of Divinity at Howard University will rename its library in honor of the late Lawrence Neale Jones. Jones, who died this past December, served as dean of the divinity school from 1975 to 1991.

• Dikembe Mutombo, a 1991 graduate of Georgetown University who played for 18 seasons in the National Basketball Association, received the John Thompson Jr. Legacy of a Dream Award from Georgetown University. Mutombo was recognized for his work to raise money for healthcare and education in his native Democratic Republic of the Congo.