Tag: black scientists

Neil deGrasse Tyson Responds to Sexual Misconduct Allegations

CLICK HERE TO READ AT GEEKTYRANT.COM.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Meet the ‘Hidden Figure’ Who Helped Measure the Distance Between the Earth and the Moon

CLICK HERE TO READ AT BLAVITY.COM.

Hildreth “Hal” Walker Jr. – right

‘Hidden Figures’ Author Margot Shetterly Returns Home to Talk About Human Computers

Click here to read about it and watch a video at Dailypress.com.

Author Margot Lee Setterly

Once Again — NASA is the Best Place to Work

Read about it at NASA’s blog.

And in a Washington Post article there’s this: Many of the rankings were no surprise. NASA has been No. 1 in its category for five straight years.

That’s not because of space, said Max Stier, the Partnership’s president and chief executive.” “It’s because Charlie Bolden [NASA’s administrator] is a great leader.”

Portrait, Charles F. Bolden, Jr., Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Washington, DC, July 29, 2009.  Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Portrait, Charles F. Bolden, Jr., Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Washington, DC, July 29, 2009. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

1980s Photo Captures Neil deGrasse Tyson Looking Hip in Grad School

Click here to read and see photo at Open Culture.

(Plus More on His “Failed Experiment” at UT-Austin)

NeildeGrasseTysonNeil deGrasse Tyson

Two Black Scholars Elected Members of the National Academy of Sciences

Click here to read at Atlanta Blackstar’s b.l.e.r.d.s. column.

Jennifer A. Richeson, Ph.D., Northwestern University