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David Harold Blackwell: 1st African-American in the National Academy of Sciences
Posted on05. Apr, 2010 by Leshell Hatley.
David Harold Blackwell (born April 24, 1919) is Professor Emeritus of Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley, and is one of the eponyms of the Rao–Blackwell theorem. Born in Centralia, Illinois, he was the first African American inducted into the National Academy of Sciences, and the first black tenured faculty member at UC Berkeley.
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Mark Anthony Neal: Professor, Author, and Social Commentator
Posted on02. Apr, 2010 by Leshell Hatley.
Mark Anthony Neal is Professor of Black Popular Culture in the Department of African and African American Studies at Duke University. He is also a renowned author and speaker and a frequent commentator on various online media outlets, including his own blog.
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Dr. Shawn Blanton: Full Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
Posted on22. Mar, 2010 by Leshell Hatley.
Shawn Blanton is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University and Director of the Center for Silicon System Implementation.
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[HBCU Presidents] Horace Mann Bond: 1st Black President of Fort Valley State College & Lincoln University
Posted on02. Feb, 2010 by Leshell Hatley.
One of the most respected and influential black educators and intellectuals of the mid-20th century, Horace Mann Bond was at the forefront of black education and civil rights throughout his career – as teacher and key administrator at Fisk University, Dillard University, Fort Valley State College (president, 1939 – 1945), Lincoln University (president, 1945 – 1957), and Atlanta University, where he was dean of the School of Education, 1957 – 1966. Much of Bond’s research emphasized the social, economic, and geographic factors influencing academic achievement. pioneered many projects, including his critiques of intelligence and aptitude testing, his research on black doctorates, and his field work for the Julius Rosenwald Fund.
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Carter G. Woodson: The Father of Black History
Posted on01. Feb, 2010 by Leshell Hatley.
Imagine a world in which people like you have no written history, or that which has been written is incomplete or distorted. Before Dr. Carter Godwin Woodson (1875–1950) began his work, there was very little information, and much of that stereotypical misinformation, about the lives and history of Americans of African descent.
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Louis W. Sullivan, M.D.: Founding Dean and 1st President of Morehouse School of Medicine
Posted on29. Jan, 2010 by Leshell Hatley.
Louis W. Sullivan, M.D., is the founding Dean and first President of Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM). With the exception of his tenure as Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) from 1989 to 1993, Dr. Sullivan was President of MSM for more than two decades. On July 1, 2002, he left the presidency, but continues to serve on the MSM Board of Trustees, to teach, and to assist in national fund-raising activities on behalf of the school.
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Dr. Arthur J. Bond: Electrical Engineer & Founding Advisor of NSBE
Posted on21. Dec, 2009 by Leshell Hatley.
Arthur J. Bond (born 1917) was the dean of the School of Engineering and Technology at Alabama A&M University in Alabama, and an activist in the cause of increasing black enrollment and retention in engineering and technology. He was a founding member of the National Society of Black Engineers and part of the team that fought for state funding of engineering at Alabama A&M University.
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Geneva Gay: Education Professor, Researcher, Author
Posted on18. Dec, 2009 by Leshell Hatley.
Dr. Geneva Gay is a professor of education at the University of Washington-Seattle, where she teaches multicultural education and general curriculum theory. She is nationally and internationally known for her scholarship in multicultural education, particularly as it relates to curriculum design, staff development, classroom instruction and intersections of culture, race, ethnicity, teaching and learning.
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Dr. Cynthia Winston: Professor & Researcher at Howard University
Posted on16. Dec, 2009 by Leshell Hatley.
Dr. Cynthia Winston is an Associate Professor in the Howard University Department of Psychology and Principal Investigator of the Identity and Success Research Laboratory. She also is the Principal and founder of Winston Synergy L.L. C., a psychology and research consulting firm.
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[HBCU Presidents] Dr. Ivory V. Nelson: Lincoln University
Posted on15. Dec, 2009 by Leshell Hatley.
Dr. Ivory V. Nelson, who has achieved a national reputation for his distinguished leadership in higher education, became the twelfth president of Lincoln University on August 15, 1999. . A trained chemist, Dr. Nelson is listed among the world’s top scientists.
