Appointments, Promotions, and Resignations

• Renaldo R. Murray was named director of the marching band at Alcorn State University in Mississippi. He was the interim director of bands and instructor of music at Jackson State University.

A graduate of Alcorn State University, Dr. Murray holds a master’s degree from Jackson State and a doctorate in music education from the University of Mississippi.

• Eve J. Higginbotham, executive dean for health sciences and senior vice president at Howard University in Washington, D.C., was elected to the board of trustees of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Dr. Higginbotham holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from MIT and is a graduate of Harvard Medical School.

• Elizabeth I. Dadzie is the new associate vice president for enrollment management at Tuskegee University. She previously was on the administrative staff at Indiana University.

Dadzie is a graduate of the University of Ghana and holds an MBA from Indiana University.

• Adjoa A. Aiyetoro was named the founding director of the Institute on Race and Ethnicity at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Since 2004, she has served as an associate professor at the university's William H. Bowen School of Law.

Professor Aiyetoro is a graduate of Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. She earned a master of social work degree at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis and a law degree at Saint Louis University.

• Leroy Dorsey was appointed chair of the department of communication at the University of Memphis. He was associate chair of the department of communication at Texas A&M University.

Dr. Dorsey holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from California State University, Hayward. He earned his Ph.D. at Indiana University.

• Babatunde A. Ogunnaike, who holds the William L. Friend Chair of Electrical Engineering at the University of Delaware, was named interim dean of the College of Engineering at the university. He has been on the university’s faculty since 2002.

Dr. Ogunnaike is a graduate of the University of Lagos in Nigeria. He earned a master’s degree in statistics and a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Wisconsin.

• Helen Diggs was named director of the Laboratory Animal Resource Center at the Oregon State University in Corvallis. Since 2008, she has been director of the Lois Bates Acheson Veterinary Teaching Hospital and associate dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine at the university.

Dr. Diggs received her doctorate in veterinary medicine at Oregon State.

• Lemuel W. Watson was named dean of the College of Education at the University of South Carolina. He was dean of the College of Education at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb.

Dean Watson is a graduate of the University of South Carolina. He earned a master’s degree at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, and a doctorate from Indiana University.

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