Awards
Craig Reed, chief procurement officer for Corteva Agriscience and head of corporate real estate, received the Dave Barclay Affirmative Action Award at the just concluded Black Engineer of the Year Awards (BEYA) Conference. The award recognizes efforts to promote affirmative action and advancement within an organization in education, job promotion, small-business development, and community activities. […]
The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded up to $11.9 million to Oregon State University to invent new drug delivery technologies for protecting members of the military from a range of health threats in combat areas. Once designed, developed and tested, the technologies could also be applied as needed within the general public, said OSU […]
The BEYA Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) Conference takes place February 18-20 at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown in Philadelphia, PA. The complete list of BEYA winners, Special Recognition, and Emerald honorees: Affirmative Action Charles Williams Senior Small Business Specialist NASA Johnson Space Center Career Achievement Thomas P. Bostick Commander/Chief of Engineers Headquarters, U.S. Army […]
Speaking at the 18th annual Stars and Stripes Dinner, which takes place on Friday during BEYA Week, the 2022 Black Engineer of the Year Ted Colbert, executive vice president of The Boeing Company and president and chief executive officer of Boeing Defense, Space & Security (seen at the podium in 2022), congratulated this year’s BEYA […]
We all know North Carolina A&T State (N.C. A&T) University is the No. 1 producer of African Americans with engineering degrees. But did you know N.C. A&T clinched nominations in eleven categories for the 2018 Historically Black College and University (HBCU) Digest Awards? Here’s why you should care. In the eighth year of the HBCU […]
BEYA will celebrate its 34th anniversary this year and is marking the occasion with the theme ‘The Global Catalyst for Change: Making the Untapped Potential Possible.” This involves dialogues about education and opportunities in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) across America, and the innovation that allows people around the world to get involved in […]
A federal jury on Wednesday awarded nearly $100 million to the family of Botham Shem Jean, a Black man who was eating ice cream and watching television at home in Dallas when he was shot dead by a white police officer six years ago. Amber R. Guyger, the officer who killed Mr. Jean, used excessive […]
On 22 October 2024, Teledyne FLIR Defense, a division of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated, was awarded a contract worth up to $91 million to supply the US Army with its Black Hornet 4 nano-unmanned aerial systems (UAS). This new contract, which spans five years, is part of the Soldier Borne Sensor (SBS) program’s Phase II. With […]
For more than four decades, the University of Houston’s Nicolás Kanellos has played a major role in helping Latinos tell their stories. Whether it’s through fiction, poetry, biographies or history, Kanellos has made an indelible impact on U.S. Latino culture. He has balanced his roles directing Arte Público Press and the Recovering the U.S. Hispanic […]
Sikorsky to add add cutting-edge MATRIX technology to the UH-60M Black Hawk, pushing the limits of Autonomous Military Aviation. Sikorsky, has secured a $6 million contract from DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) to outfit the U.S. Army’s experimental fly-by-wire UH-60M Black Hawk helicopter with its advanced ALIAS/MATRIX flight autonomy system, the company, a subsidiary […]