About the Speaker
Freeman A. Hrabowski, III
Freeman A. Hrabowski, III, President Emeritus of UMBC (The University of Maryland,
Baltimore County) served as president from 1992 to 2022. His research and publications
focus on science and math education, with special emphasis on minority participation
and performance. He chaired the National Academies’ committee that produced the 2011
report, Expanding Underrepresented Minority Participation: America’s Science and Technology
Talent at the Crossroads. He was named in 2012 by President Obama to chair the President’s
Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for African Americans. His 2013 TED
talk highlights the “Four Pillars of College Success in Science.” In 2022, Dr. Hrabowski
was elected to the National Academy of Engineering, and he was also named the inaugural
ACE Centennial Fellow, to be served upon his retirement from UMBC. In Addition, the
Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) also launched the Freeman Hrabowski Scholars
Program ($1.5 billion) to help build a scientific workforce that more fully reflects
our increasingly diverse country. In October 2022, he was named the inaugural Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture Speaker by Harvard. In April 2023, The
National Academy of Sciences awarded him the Public Welfare Medal, the Academy’s most
prestigious award, and inducted him as a member of the academy, for his extraordinary
use of science for the public good.
Event Information
Wednesday, January 24, 20246:30 p.m.
McGuire Hall East, Loyola University Maryland
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