newspaper Adah Jenkins graduated from Morgan State as did scientist and inventor Valerie Thomas.
=== Faculty ===
Former faculty member Ernest Lyon was a United States Ambassador to Liberia and the founder of the Maryland Industrial and Agricultural Institute for Colored Youths. Noted African American historian and pioneering scholar Dr. Benjamin A. Quarles served on its faculty for many decades. Physician-Scientist Charles R. Drew, known for his work on blood transfusion, was Morgan College's First Athletic Director. African-American historian Rosalyn Terborg-Penn wrote on women' suffrage. Flora E. Strout, Morgan College teacher and principal, wrote the school's anthem.
Notable faculty currently teaching at Morgan State University include bestselling author and filmmaker MK Asante, and scholar Raymond Winbush.
== Notes ==
A The National Trust for Historic Preservation has designated Morgan State University as a National Treasure, the only such honor for a college or university campus in the United States.
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