Math is the Key for Historical Figure

History came alive at OSU Mansfield with a recent visit by Robert Moses, one of the pivotal organizers of the civil rights movement in the early 1960s in Mississippi.
During his visit, he spoke to different groups about his experiences in Mississippi and his reflections on the early civil rights movement.

In the mid-1980s, as a MacArthur Foundation fellow, Moses developed the concept for the Algebra Project. The initiative calls for the improvement of math literacy to help all children have the opportunities to achieve their full potential.

An extension of the initiative is being developed this year as the Mansfield Algebra Project, a collaboration between OSU Mansfield and the Mansfield City Schools. Students eligible for the program are current eighth-graders at Malabar Middle School who are struggling with math as determined by Ohio Achievement Test scores.

Moses addressed a group of Malabar students involved in the program, providing them with a rare opportunity to meet the founder and encouragement to

OSU-M Professor Pens First Book

Dr. Scopas Poggo, OSU-M assistant professor of African American and African Studies, has published his first book, The First Sudanese Civil War, a comprehensive investigation and analysis of the origins and development of the first civil war in the Sudan occurring between 1955 and 1972. The book is a significant contribution to the historiography on war and conflict in the Sudan in particular and Africa at large
Poggo asserts that the civil war was the culmination of ethnic, racial, cultural, religious, political, and economic problems that faced the Sudan since the Turco-Egyptian conquest of the country in 1821. The hostilities between the Northern and Southern regions of the Sudan also involved foreign powers that had their own geopolitical interests in the country.

The book will be published and distributed in the U.S. and worldwide by Palgrave Macmillan.

Poggo holds a Ph.D. in African History, Modern Middle Eastern History and Black Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara.