Selected 2007 Faculty Accomplishments  Faculty News  Academic Calendar
 Baruti Katembo is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Edward Waters College (EWC) in Jacksonville, FL. He is the founder and director of the Ujuzi Group*, an EWC thinktank that explores opportunities for the College to participate in multi-level
development/outreach programs, international linkages, and African-oriented initiatives. The thinktank includes a component lecture series, The Wakaguzi Forum. Prof. Katembo’s educational background includes an undergraduate degree in Industrial Engineering (North Carolina A&T Univ.) and graduate degrees in Applied Mathematics (North Carolina A&T Univ.) and Landscape Architecture (North Carolina State Univ.).
Professor Baruti Katembo
Having participated in many seminars, conferences and panel discussions, his scholarship efforts include a book (Elephants in a Bamboo Cage: The Black Condition, the American Psyche, and the Next Step Forward (2001)) and numerous single and co-authored papers (e.g. HBCUs: A Think Tank Resource for Africa; Africa, Seeds, and Biofuel), all of which synthesize aspects of technology, culture and economics. His research interests include sociotechnology, applied geometry, green fuels, and human/natural resource usage.*Notable accomplishments: 1) submitted successful proposal to Curriculum Committee (Spring 2007) to have Elementary Kiswahili I & II added to the EWC curriculum course list; 2) developed a relationship with the World Affairs Council (Fall 2007) to participate in their Great Decisions Program, a conduit through which college professors instruct high school students (and/or college students) on topics surrounding the global society.
Selected 2007 Conference Papers & Presentations
Math Thorns: Equations with Fractions, Word Problems, and Other Stumblers Teachers for a New Era Mathematics Conference (Lansing, MI / Nov. 2007) Math Lab Ideas at EWC Math Labs: Charting the Course for Student Success (Bowling Green, OH / Aug. 2007) Economic Integration, Ujima, and 21st Century Africa (co-written w/ Dr. Marcel Ngambi) Panafest Symposium (The University of Cape Coast – Ghana / July 2007) Africa, Seeds, and Biofuel (co-written w/ Dr. Pearl Gray) 16th Annual Africa / Diaspora Conference (CSU – Sacramento / April 2007)
Selected 2007 Publications
· “Africa, Seeds, and Biofuel”1Scientific Journals International (SJI) website (http://www.gcchq.com/SJI/articles/1101.pdf) under the Journal of Multidisciplinary Research 1 Also serves as a reference for the Jatropha Oil entry in Wikipedia.org http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jatropha_oil
· “Vyuo vya Weusi (Black Colleges): Their Future, Use and Survival in a White Country” Chapter 18 (pp. 259-268) of Still Not Equal: Expanding Educational Opportunity in Society, M. Christopher Brown II, Editor with assistance from RoSusan D. Bartee, New York, NY, Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., 2007
Miscellaneous
· Member of the planning committee that organized the inaugural JU-EWC Geography Conference, held on the EWC campus (Sept. 8, 2007). The conference was the culmination of a multi-department effort w/ faculty representation from EWC's Mathematics & Sociology Departments and JU's Geography Department. Through workshops involving hands-on applications and activities, it exposed a group of pre-registered K-12 public/private school teachers from multiple disciplines to information on the importance of geography, its many uses, and on how it can be incorporated across curricula.
· Participant in the Schultz Center’s First Coast Scholars Program (Fall 2007 – Spring 2008) as a seminar co-facilitator with Carole Barnett, Assoc. Prof. – JU Humanities Dept. on the subject of “Bridges”.
· Participant in the UF Summer Institute on Africa 2 University of Florida Center for African Studies (Gainesville, Florida / June 2007)2An intense, 2-week research institute that covered the study of Africa from multidisciplinary vantage points such as economics, technology, culture, geography, religion, textiles, etc.
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