Congratulations to NAEd member Howard Gardner on receiving the 2021 United Sigma Intelligence Association award! This honor is bestowed annually upon a respected scientist or intellectual who has contributed to each field of arts, science, and humanity. Alongside Gardner, linguist and cognitive scientist Noam Chosmky and mathematician and physicist Edward Witten have also received the award this year. We congratulate all three scholars on this tremendous recognition of their work.
Remembering Clifton R. Wharton, Jr.
We were deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Clifton R. Wharton Jr. on November 16, 2024. Below is a tribute to his life and career by The New York Times (source). He was the first African American to become president of a large white university, C.E.O. of a...