DeJuran Richardson (WCAS81, G83, G87) remembers arriving at Northwestern and finding it a very different world from the one where he grew up.
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DeJuran Richardson earned his BA from The Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences in 1981 and stayed through his PhD in 1987. While still a PhD candidate, he began his teaching career at Lake Forest College. Richardson has successfully fused the roles of full-time liberal arts college math professor with that of a biostatistician as he directs research on cancer, stroke prevention among African Americans, and AIDS.