Article archive / September 2017
Originally published: . Volume 8, No. 9. Source pages: 10.
Tulane psychology Professor, and Associate Provost at Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, African and African Diaspora Studies Program, Dr. Michael Cunningham, has been named as one of the national winners of the 2017 Inspiring Leaders in STEM, reported by Barri Bronston of Tulane news in July.
“Inspiring Leaders in STEM Award recipients were nominated by colleagues and selected by Insight Into Diversity….” The candidates were considered for their “efforts to inspire and encourage a new generation of young people to consider careers in STEM through mentoring, teaching, research, and successful programs and initiatives,” reported Bronston.
Dr. Cunningham has authored an extensive list of research on areas of importance for understanding young African Americans, including “African American adolescent males' perceptions of their community resources and constraints: A longitudinal analysis,” in the Journal of Community Psychology.
He has also authored, The Black Male Experiences Measure,” in Handbook of Tests and Measurements for Black Populations; “School and community-based associations to hypermasculine attitudes in African American adolescent males,” in American Journal of Orthopsychiatry; and “Sex role influences of African American adolescent males: a literature review” in Journal of African American Male Studies.
Dr. Cunningham teaches Introduction to African American Psychology, Adolescent Psychology, Black Youth: Developmental Psychology Perspectives, Research Methods in Urban Communities, New Orleans Youth: Resilience and Vulnerability in Tomorrow’s Leaders, Advance Adolescent Psychology and Children of Color, at the undergraduate and graduate levels. He was invited to participate at the National Science Foundation’s sponsored Colloquy on Minority Males in STEM, and is the recipient of the Barbara E. Moely Award for outstanding Service Learning Teaching, Tulane University.
In 2013 he was named with the Distinguished Contributions to the Society for Research in Child Development Award.
Dr. Cunningham is also the Suzanne and Stephen Weiss Presidential Fellow at Tulane.
Tulane’s biomedical engineering associate professor Michael Moore and doctoral student Katherine Elfer, were also honored in the national award and will be featured with Dr. Cunningham and others in the September 2017 issue of INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine.
Tulane’s Dr. Michael Cunningham (L) was recently honored for his work with inspiring young people. Other honorees are biomedical engineering associate professor Michael Moore (C) and doctoral student Katherine Elfer. Dr. Cunningham is Tulane psychology Professor, and Associate Provost at Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, African and African Diaspora Studies Program. (Photo by Paula Burch-Celentano/Courtesy Tulane)
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