Archive for 'Mathematics'
Tahir Hemphill: Linguistic Researcher – Hip Hop Word Count
Posted on 31. Jan, 2011 by Leshell Hatley.
Tahir Hemphill is a graphic designer and linguistic researcher who mixes the two in a series of research efforts including Rap Research Groups and the Hip-Hop Word Count.
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Dr. Marjorie Lee Brown: The 2nd Black Women to Obtain a PhD in Math in the US
Posted on 05. Jan, 2011 by Leshell Hatley.
Dr. Marjorie Lee Brown grew up and was educated in a society that was prejudicial against any African-Americans, especially women. However, Browne had a love of mathematics and was determined to study the subject to the highest possible standards. She achieved these goals and became one of the first Black women in the United States to obtain a Ph.D in Mathematics.
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Dr. Dudley Weldon Woodard (1881-1965): Educator and Mathematician
Posted on 03. Nov, 2010 by Leshell Hatley.
On Wednesday, 28 June 1928, Woodard became the 38th person to receive a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Penn. More significantly, Woodard was the second African American in the nation to receive that degree.
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Dr. Widad Elmahboub: Math Professor at Hampton University
Posted on 08. Sep, 2010 by Leshell Hatley.
Dr. Widad Elmahboub is an assistant professor at the Mathematics Department at Hampton University. She will be featured this September in the 28th edition of Who’s Who of American Women.
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Erich Caulfield: 2010 White House Fellow; Morehouse & MIT Graduate
Posted on 23. Jun, 2010 by Leshell Hatley.
Erich Caulfield is one of the 2010 White House Fellows. He is an Alumnus of Morehouse college and two time graduate of M.I.T.
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Kelly Miller: First African-American Mathematics Graduate Student and Influential Founder of Howard’s Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
Posted on 21. Jun, 2010 by Leshell Hatley.
In 1887, Kelly Miller became the first African-American Mathematics Graduate Student. He went on to become extremely influential during the debates between Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Dubois and planted the seed for what is now called the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center at Howard University.
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Anna Julia Cooper: Author, Educator, 4th African-American Women to Earn PhD
Posted on 11. Jun, 2010 by Leshell Hatley.
Anna Julia Haywood Cooper was an author, educator, and one of the most prominent African American scholars in United States history. Cooper became the fourth African American woman to earn a doctorate degree. She was also a prominent member of Washington, D.C.’s African American community.
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[HBCU Presidents] Dr. Andrew Hugine: Alabama A&M University
Posted on 11. May, 2010 by Leshell Hatley.
Dr. Andrew Hugine, Jr., joined the Alabama A&M University family on Thursday, July 16, 2009, following an extensive career in higher education that highlighted both academia and administration.
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David Harold Blackwell: 1st African-American in the National Academy of Sciences
Posted on 05. 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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Dr. Lawrence Clark: Professor and Math Education Researcher
Posted on 31. Mar, 2010 by Leshell Hatley.
Dr. Clark is an Assistant Professor in the College of Education at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is interested in articulating the ways in which American educational researchers of African descent engaged in collecting data on the African continent is a rich space to interrogate issues of personal, national, and cross-cultural identity.
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Correction! Philip Emeagwali: Inventor of the World’s Fastest Computer => MYTH
Posted on 26. Feb, 2010 by Leshell Hatley.
Unfortunately, with additional research, we have found that the claims of this article are a MYTH. Please read the article to get more information on both sides of this myth. Philip Emeagwali claimes to have invented the world’s fastest computer, which performs computations at 3.1 billion calculations per second.
