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A monthly compilation of articles on black culture in ASTEM
1. Black Colleges Step Up Pursuit of Sponsored Research
2. Trenton Mayor Tony Mack pushing for black IT firm to get nearly $1M contract
3. Most Important Blacks in Technology Honoree Promoted
4. Movie 'To Cover Major Cell Breakthrough'
5. South Carolina Program's Success Highlights Minority Access Debate
6. Westminster College best school for women studying STEM, says Forbes
7. Nuclear Energy: An Economic Lifeline for Local Communities
8. Innovation and Technology: Are African Americans Prepared for the Future?
9. For minorities, new 'digital divide' seen Latinos, blacks limited by access to Web by phone
10. Why Low Performing Schools Need Digital Media
11. Reconciliation in the school reform war
12. African-American men's delay in getting preventive medical care more attributable to medical mistrust than masculinity
Focus. Perspective: Stumbling Through History: Discovering Unsung African-American Chemists
1. Black Colleges Step Up Pursuit of Sponsored Research
by Toni Coleman and Joan Matthews,
January 6, 2011
When Claflin University President Henry Tisdale challenged his faculty to pursue an aggressive research agenda, he knew the university needed to be dogged in going after lucrative federal research and development contracts to support that research.
Read More: DiverseEducation.com
2. Trenton Mayor Tony Mack pushing for black IT firm to get nearly $1M contract
By Paul Mickle, Staff Writer
Friday, January 07, 2011
TRENTON -- Mayor Tony Mack's choice to replace Trenton's long-time technology consultants is a two-year-old company with African-American leadership and ties to Hightstown's own Randall Pinkett, one of America's leading advocates of black enterprise. Read More: Trentonian.com
3. Most Important Blacks in Technology Honoree Promoted
By USBE Online
Jan 7, 2011
Cox Enterprises announced today Gregory Morrison has been promoted to senior vice president and chief information officer, effective immediately. He will continue reporting to John Dyer, executive vice president and chief financial officer. Read More: BlackEngineer.com
4. Movie 'To Cover Major Cell Breakthrough'
Greg Milam, US correspondent
January 03, 2011
The remarkable story of how cells from a poor black American woman revolutionized science and launched decades of medical advances is set to become a Hollywood blockbuster. Read More: Sky.com
5. South Carolina Program's Success Highlights Minority Access Debate
By The Admin
January 3, 2011
Black Politics on the Web
The Centers for Economic Excellence Program has drawn cheers from higher education and political officials as a model for establishing South Carolina as a base for research that's groundbreaking and creates jobs. Read More: BlackPoliticsontheweb.com
6. Westminster College best school for women studying STEM, says Forbes
by Vanessa Bostwick
January 4, 2011
diversity news
Forbes just released a list ranking the best colleges and universities for women and minorities who are studying science, technology, engineering, and math, or STEM programs. Read More: DiversityJobs.com
7. Nuclear Energy: An Economic Lifeline for Local Communities
By Maudine R. Cooper, President and CEO of the Greater Washington Urban League and Christine Todd Whitman, former EPA Administrator and Co-Chair of the Clean and Safe Energy Coalition
The latest unemployment numbers reveal that African Americans seeking work still are among the hardest hit by the economic downturn. The 16 percent unemployment rate among African Americans hovers around a 25-year high, and remains six percentage points above the national average. Read More: CaseEnergy.org
8. Innovation and Technology: Are African Americans Prepared for the Future?
By Tarice L.S. Gray
January 4th, 2011
In August 2009, President Barack Obama pledged to help maintain the nation's global leadership by committing to the field that will drive our future economy. The President said, "The United States led the world's economies in the 20th century," he said, "because we led the world in innovation. Today, the competition is keener; the challenge is tougher; and that is why innovation is more important than ever." Read More: TheDefendersOnline.com
9. For minorities, new 'digital divide' seen Latinos, blacks limited by access to Web by phone
By Jesse Washington
Jan. 8, 2011
Associated Press
When the personal computer revolution began decades ago, Latinos and blacks were much less likely to use one of the marvelous new machines. Then, when the Internet began to change life as we know it, these groups had less access to the Web and slower online connections - placing them on the wrong side of the "digital divide." Read More: Chron.com
10. Why Low Performing Schools Need Digital Media
Craig Watkins
Prof. and author, studying youth digital media culture, Univ. of Texas at Austin
Posted: January 9, 2011
HuffPost Education
When the social and digital media revolution gained momentum at the dawn of the new millennium, no one would have predicted that less than a decade later black and Latino youth would be just as engaged as their white, Asian, and more affluent counterparts. Across a number of measures -- use of mobile phones and gaming devices, social network sites, and the mobile web -- young blacks and Latinos are beginning to outpace their white counterparts. For years the dominant narrative related to race and technology in the U.S. pivoted around the question of access. Today, the most urgent questions pivot around participation and more specifically, the quality of digital media engagement among youth in diverse social and economic contexts. Read More: HuffingtonPost.com
11. Reconciliation in the school reform war
By Kevin Huffman
January 10, 2011
The Washington Post
Robert Samuelson lays out the saner arguments against aggressive school reform in today's Post. Read More: WashingtonPost.com
12. African-American men's delay in getting preventive medical care more attributable to medical mistrust than masculinity
January 11, 2011
News Medical
Whether they see themselves as tough or just self-reliant, men are less likely than women to seek routine, preventive medical care, like blood pressure and cholesterol screenings.
Read More: NewsMedical.net
Focus
Perspective: Stumbling Through History: Discovering Unsung African-American Chemists
By Stephen Weininger, Leon Gortler
January 14, 2011
MySciNet
While continuing to teach and do research in physical organic chemistry, our native field, we -- the authors of this Perspective -- independently began to investigate the discipline's history. By the 1980s, this avocation became a professional commitment. Given the coincidence of our interests and backgrounds, we went in search of a topic we could collaborate on. Read More: ScienceMag.org
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