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Friday, 26 October 2007 |
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Lehman Brothers, the global investment bank, and Spelman College, the
No.1-ranked institution among all historically black colleges and universities
in the country by U.S. News & World Report, announced a
groundbreaking corporate-academic partnership to establish and develop the
Lehman Brothers Center for Global Finance and Economic Development at Spelman
College. As part of this endeavor, Lehman Brothers has committed $10 million to
make possible the development of an interdisciplinary curriculum and courses,
the creation of a new scholarship program and the recruitment of new faculty.
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News 
Last month Alicia Jillian Hardy became the first African-American woman
to achieve a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
