189:. He returned to Howard University in 1971 as a professor, where he remained for most of the rest of his career. He served as chair of the mathematics department at Howard from 1972 until 1990, in which role he was instrumental in developing a PhD program in mathematics. Howard's program, established in 1976, was the first PhD program in mathematics at a
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