Howard University is striving to regain a prestigious distinction for a research university known as R1 status.
The American Council on Education and Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching gives the classification to universities with high research activity.
Howard became the first and only historically Black university with the status in 1987 but lost it in 2005 due to requirement changes.
Bruce Jones, senior vice president of research at Howard, and a team of professors have worked over the past six years to get the university the status.
