March 2010


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Vice Chancellor Receives Martin Luther King Jr., Legacy Award

UWI Vice Chancellor, Prof. E. Nigel Harris, has earned the prestigious “Martin Luther King Legacy Award for International Service” from the Washington-based Institute for the Advancement of Multicultural & Minority Medicine.

This year’s awardees included His Excellency Cyrille Oguin, Ambassador of the Republic of Benin to the USA, who also received a Martin Luther King Jr., Legacy Award for International Service; Sally Quinn, Washington Post Journalist, recipient of the Dr. Dorothy I. Height Leadership Award and US Congressman Hon. Elijah Cummings. The awards were presented in January at “An International Salute to the Life & Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,” a breakfast celebration hosted by the Committee at the Willard International Hotel in Washington “as a way of sharing Dr. King’s historical work at home and abroad.”