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The National Academy of Engineering announced Tuesday that the organization has elected Kerrie L. Holley as a member. The Class of 2023 has more than one hundred new members the NAE said today. (Photo credit: Kerrie Holley – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0) NAE members represent a select group of senior professionals in business, academia, […]
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James Henry Conyers was sworn in at the age of 16 after a Congressman nominated him. James Henry Conyers broke the color barrier when he became the first African American to enroll at the U.S. Naval Academy in 1872. Over 150 years later, the long-forgotten trailblazer has been honored with a monument in South Carolina. […]
When 16-year-old James Henry Conyers left Charleston in 1872, no one who looked like him had ever been where he was going. Conyers’ arrival at the U.S. Naval Academy, following his nomination by a South Carolina congressman, marked the first time a Black man would enroll there. He was first, and he was alone. White […]
Monica E. Peek, the Ellen H. Block Professor for Health Justice in the Department of Medicine at the University of Chicago, has been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Medicine. Peek, an internist and renowned health disparities researcher at UChicago Medicine, was one of 100 people elected to the organization’s 2022 class, which was announced Oct. […]
Announcement from The Poynter Institute on the 2022 Leadership Academy for Diversity in Media cohort: In partnership with The Washington Post, the Poynter Institute is proud to announce the 29 journalists of color . . .
The US Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has partnered with UK-based music content company Mercury Studios to launch a career development programme for Black British musicians interested in composing for film. The Jonas Gwangwa Music Composition Initiative is named after late South African musician and composer Jonas Gwangwa, an Oscar nominee in the […]
First Black head of U.S. Air Force Academy on diversity in armed forces – CBS News Watch CBS News Lt. Gen. Richard Clark made history as the first Black superintendent of the U.S. Air Force Academy when he was appointed to the position in 2020. He joins “CBS Mornings” to discuss his experience and the […]
At Princeton University’s Graduate School’s first-ever Inclusive Academy Symposium, Courtney DelPo, a Ph.D. student in chemistry, said it was reassuring to hear stories about the many potential paths leading to success as she makes her own way through her doctoral program and beyond. Renita Miller, the Graduate School’s associate dean for access, diversity and inclusion, led […]
When Janet Edwards took on the job of mortuary officer at the U.S. Air Force Academy Cemetery in 1992, she had never seen a dead body. She had never been to a funeral, let alone facilitated one — and the first burial she had to oversee was that of a 9-year-old boy. The woman training […]