Black Heritage

The first African-American department chair of Harvard Medical School

2018 graduate of WashU, majored in Biology: Neuroscience track Earned her  M.Phil. at University of Oxford in History of Science Medicine and Technology

He was an agricultural scientist and inventor and the most prominent African American scientist of the early 20th century

A biologist, cancer researcher, professor, dean, and academic administrator

A pioneering African American biologist, academic and science writer

Senior at WashU, majoring in Computational Biology and Genomics

A biochemist with important contributions in four areas of research.

In 1933, became the first African American woman to earn a Ph.D. in the natural sciences

He was a bacteriologist who studied the epidemiology of tropical diseases

A research biologist, educator, zoologist, and comparative psychologist