05/02/2012 - 00:17
NORTHAMPTON COUNTY, NC -- The sunlight which falls on this rural county is about to turn into jobs and energy, thanks to an innovative group of African-American scientists and entrepreneurs.
04/30/2012 - 21:12
Nokomis, FL And Sunnyvale, CA—– Rainbow BioSciences, a subsidiary of Rainbow Coral Corp (OTCBB: RBCC) has executed a Letter Of Intent (“LOI”) to advance Amarantus BioSciences, Inc.’s (OTCBB: AMBS) Parkinson’s disease program, comprised of an early detection diagnostic blood test and a disease-modifying protein drug candidate.
04/30/2012 - 04:42
DECATUR -- Laron Walker never forgot meeting the late Dr. Frank Greene in an airport. Like Greene, Walker received a masters degree in electrical engineering from Purdue University.
From that point, Greene encouraged Walker to follow in his footsteps as an innovator and entrepreneur.
04/29/2012 - 20:54
SAN MATEO -- To build a billion-dollar technology company, it helps to have a team which has done it before.
04/29/2012 - 07:13
MINNEAPOLIS --
04/27/2012 - 16:02
CAMBRIDGE -- When President Obama annnounced the National Bioeconomy Blueprint this week, he had researchers like Dr. Debra Auguste in mind as drivers of economic and scientific growth.
04/25/2012 - 14:49
WASHINGTON --To see how far biology can advance a career, one need look no further than Dr. Chavonda J. Jacobs-Young, acting director of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture.
An interest in paper and trees while a student at North Carolina State University has made her an internationally recognized authority in the field of value-added biobased products including non-food processing, biotechnology, metabolic engineering, bioenergy production, and forest products research.
"As my career progresses it is my intent to continue to be a positive role model and an inspiration for all students, but especially those students who would not traditionally choose a career in science and engineering," says the first African-American woman to receive a Ph.D in pulp and paper science.
04/24/2012 - 20:24
BALTIMORE -- Right Direction Technology Solutions Inc. added three federal departments to its impressive client list during 2011.
04/24/2012 - 18:24
ATLANTA -- The power of a little-known, but highly significant inventor who grew up in Queens public housing to inspire interest in mathematics will be presented to the Alonzo Crim Center's Sources of Urban Educational Excellence event Friday at the Georgia State University College of Education.
A Great Day in Gaming: From Queens to Silicon Valley: The Gerald A. Lawson Story, the ReUNION: Education-Arts-Heritage documentary on the late Gerald A. Lawson, is a tool to promote student success in advanced courses and 20,000 patent applications from African-Americans.
04/22/2012 - 01:35
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. -- In the field of public health, numbers always equate to people.
The power of ten years of statistical acumen has positioned Dr. Jean Orelien as a leader in the mathematical research behind modern medicine.
But the devastation of the Haitian earthquake made epidemiology much more than statistics.
04/21/2012 - 17:02
CAMBRIDGE -- If a young Cardinal Warde could launch rockets from a Barbados beach as a teen, then he believes there's no reason millions of young people can not ascend to the heights of science.
Dr. Warde, a professor of electrical engineering at MIT, is considered one of the world's leading experts on materials, devices and systems for optical information processing. Warde holds key patents on spatial light modulators, displays, and optical information processing systems. He is a co-inventor of the microchannel spatial light modulator, membrane-mirror light shutters based on micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS), an optical bistable device, and a family of charge-transfer plate spatial light modulators.
04/21/2012 - 05:14
BARBADOS -- Individuals, enterprises and organizations based in the Caribbean are invited to submit proposals focusing on adoption, innovation, assimilation, development and transfer of technologies in renewable energy, energy efficiency, climate change mitigation and fossil fuel substitution by April 30, 2012.
04/20/2012 - 15:30
DETROIT- H2bid, Inc. the global leader in water infrastructure procurement, launched its e-bidding service for water and wastewater utilities. H2bid's e-bidding service allows water and wastewater utilities to use an online bidding process for all contracts, including all products, projects, and services. It is the first e-bidding service designed specifically for water and wastewater utilities.
04/18/2012 - 20:06
SILVER SPRING -- To show that DB Consulting is 'solid as a rock' after a decade, its nearly 500 employees surprised co-founder, Dr. Gerald Boyd Sr., a music aficianado in his spare time, with a surprise 10th anniversary and birthday concert by Ashford and Simpson last August.
Dr. Boyd and his son, Gerald Boyd Jr, both among the 12th annual 50 Most Important African-Americans in Technology, founded the company in 2000. The anniversary also celebrated DB's graduation from the 8(a) small business contracting program.
04/17/2012 - 20:53
WASHINGTON -- Managing the U.S. Air Force's $119 billion budget is the new job for Maj. Gen. Edward Bolton Jr., following in the footsteps of the legendary Maj. Gen. Alfred Flowers, when he retired after 46 years as the longest serving airman. Bolton previously set the pace for the service's most demanding technical challenges in space and cyberspace.
04/17/2012 - 14:21
HUNTSVILLE, AL -- When it comes to encouraging cutting edge education, Miranda Bouldin puts her money where her mouth is.
The Alabama A&M University alumna has built Logicore into a 150-employee firm since its founding in 2002.
After her first year, Bouldin launched the Miranda Bouldin Scholarship Fund in 2003 and awards at least five scholarships.
In November 2011, Logicore received the Corporate Philanthropy Award from the Huntsville/Madison County Community Foundation at their second annual summit on philanthropy.
04/16/2012 - 14:46
The 60th commander in chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet is Adm. Cecil D. Haney, who took command in January. Adm. Haney, a native of Washington, D.C., is a 1978 graduate of the United States Naval Academy where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in Ocean Engineering.
The Eastern High School graduate is one of two D.C. high school alumni responsible for protecting the U.S. West Coast along with Coast Guard Vice Adm. Manson Brown, Pacific Area commander.
04/15/2012 - 11:24
NEW LONDON, CT -- Vice Admiral Manson K. Brown returned Sunday to the Coast Guard Academy as an honoree in the annual Eclipse Week, embodying what the academy's focus on diversity has meant. He was also recently cited at the annual National Society of Black Engineers conference and during the centennial observance for Omega Psi Phi Fraternity.
