Brian Seidman, NewSouth Books
Sept 6, 2012
Interest in the ground-breaking African American architect Robert R. Taylor continues to grow after the publication of Professor Ellen Weiss's detailed biography of Taylor, and articles including two in Architect magazine. Weiss's Robert R. Taylor and Tuskegee recounts Taylor's life, side by side with striking photographs of Taylor's architectural accomplishments as the first classically trained African American graduate in 1892, and soon after Booker T. Washington recruited Taylor to teach and design the campus of Washington's Tuskegee Institute.
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2. Harris to receive President's Award from NOBCChE
National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical
Engineers to honor professor, associate provost on Sept. 28
News Office
Sept. 14, 2012
Wesley L. Harris, professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics and MIT's associate provost for faculty equity, has been selected to receive the 2012 President's Award on behalf of the National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers (NOBCChE). The mission of NOBCChe is to create an eminent cadre of people of color in science and technology.
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3. Critical Mass
Alexandra Tisley, Inside Higher Ed
Sept. 19, 2012
Of the 56 black computer science professors nationwide, a full 10 percent are clustered in one place: Clemson University. Clemson boasts six African-American tenure-track or tenured professors. Its doctoral students account for 10 percent of African-American computer science Ph.D. candidates, too. Those numbers come from the Computer Research Association, which surveyed 267 institutions and found that black computer scientists account for just 1.4 percent of computer science faculty.
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4. Where are all the black women in science?
Jenny Blair, New Scientist
Sept. 19, 2012
As a child, Erika Dommond wrote letters to Oprah Winfrey, telling the TV icon about school and asking if Oprah would adopt her. When she graduated this year with a mathematics degree from Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia, the oldest historically black college for women in the US, her idol gave the commencement address. "Epic- it was epic," Dommond recalls. I was in awe. "Winfrey is among a host of trailblazing African American women to inspire young people. And they're not just media moguls, nor first ladies - Michelle Obama recently spoke at Spelman. Many hail from science and engineering disciplines, such as physician Mae C. Jamison, the first black woman in space, or physicist Shirley Ann Jackson, the first black woman to earn a physics doctorate from MIT. Despite these role models, black female scientists are still a rarity.
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5. Amarantus Biosciences Co-Founders Honored Among 2012's Most Important African-Americans in Technology
European Parkinson's Disease Association
Sept. 25, 2012
Amarantus Bioscience, Inc. (OTCBB: AMBS), a California-based biotechnology company developing new treatments and diagnostics for Parkinson's disease (PD) and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) centered around its patented therapeutic protein MANF, today announced that Co-Founders Dr. John and Gerald Commissiong were selected among BlackMoney.com 's 13th annual "50 Most Important African-Americans in Technology" for 2012. The selectees will gather in Washington, D.C. January 15th, 2013 for the Innovation & Equity Symposium: Keeping America First in Technology: Public Innovation and Supplier Diversity.
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6. Developing Minorities in STEM
Dot Harris, The Huffington Post
Sept. 17, 2012
If we want America to succeed in the 21st century, making sure we offer the nation's students a world-class education is more than a moral obligation, it's an economic imperative.
In the long term, our country faces a stark choice: we can invent and manufacture the clean energy technologies of tomorrow in America for export around the world, or cede global leadership by importing those technologies from China, India, Germany and elsewhere.
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7. 20 Years Later: Minority STEM Degrees Up 351 Percent
Nadia Marcias, The University of Texas at El Paso
Sept. 25, 2012
Hispanics and African-Americans make more than 50 percent of the Texas population in public schools. And yet, enrollment and degrees received by these underrepresented minorities in the state are below targets set by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.
Since 1992, UT LSAMP- headquartered at UTEP-has been dedicated to increasing the number of underrepresented minorities receiving degrees in Texas, particularly in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines.
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8. STEM Visa Reform Bills Would Exclude Biosciences
Jeffrey Mervis, Science Mag
Sept. 26, 2012
The Campaign to allow more foreign-born students earning advanced degree in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) to live and work in the United States after graduation has typically embraced all STEM graduates and ignored which STEM degrees are most marketable. But Congress seems to be waking up to the fact that life scientists probably face the stiffest competition for jobs. The results in an emerging but below-the-radar consensus that foreign-born graduates in the biosciences should not be given the same shot at permanent residency as those in other STEM fields.
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9. Southern Schools Partner in $4M STEM Program for Minorities
Minority News
Sept. 30, 2012
The National Science Foundation has renewed a five-year $4.9 million grant to the University of Georgia and six partner institutions that aim to bolster the number of students from underrepresented minorities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. From the Peach Stated Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation, part of the NSF, the renewal grant will benefit more students than ever before.
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10. A Snapshot of Minority Males in STEM in Higher Education
Brian K. Johnson, Ed. D., The Black Collegian Online
Sept. 21, 2012
Over the past quarter-of-a century, countless studies and reports have been generated that document the abysmally low number of minority males in college science, technology engineering, and mathematics (STEM) courses. In more recent years, these reports have been used to sound the alarm- to warn academicians, entrepreneurs and government officials that failing to use the very strength of America, its rich ethnic diversity, could be costly and a threat to our national security.
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