Brown University NSBE

Day 5:
Katherine Johnson was a physicist and mathematician at NASA starting in 1953. Johnson worked as a “human computer” there, doing calculations essential to the success of many early missions. She was the key to the success of Project Mercury and the Apollo 11 mission. When NASA began using digital computers, she helped confirm the accuracy of those calculations. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama in 2015.

Day 4:
A physician, an engineer, an astronaut. Mae Jemison was truly a jack of all trades and a master of all. After receiving her engineering degree from Stanford and an MD from Cornell, Jemison worked as a doctor for the Peace Corps in Liberia and Sierra Leone. In 1987 she joined NASA and five years later, went on to become the first black woman in space. After leaving NASA, Jemison founded her own company, BioSentinent Corporation.

Day 4:
John Henry Thompson is the inventor of Lingo, a scripting language that renders visuals in computer software. As chief scientist at Macromedia, Thompson developed Macromedia Director, a multimedia application authoring platform. His work was instrumental in bridging the early gap between art and technology and a foundation for modern video games, web design, animation, and graphics.

Day 3:
James West went to Temple University to get a bachelor’s degree in physics. After receiving a position by Bell as an acoustical scientist, he developed the foil electret microphone. The technology is now in 90% of all compact microphones, including telephones, tape recorders, camcorders, baby monitors and hearing aids.

Day 2:
Kimberly Bryant is an electrical engineer. When her daughter expressed interest in learning to code, Bryant wanted to create a better environment for her to learn and founded Black Girls Code. Black Girls Code teaches underrepresented school-age girls to program and encourages them to remain involved in STEM, hoping to "change the face of technology."

Hey Y'all! Each day of Black History Month we will be posting a Black person in STEM, to highlight the talent and ingenuity that they have brought to their respective fields.
We'll start the first day of the month with another first:
In 1983, Guion Bluford, P.H.D. became the first African American to travel into space when he served as a mission specialist aboard the space shuttle Challenger. Bluford completed three more NASA missions, compiling 688 hours in space by the time of his retirement in 1993. He was inducted into the International Space Hall of Fame in 1997, and the United States Astronaut Hall of Fame in 2010.

Big thanks to everyone who has been supporting NSBE this semester!
It's long overdue, but here is the 2019-2020 E-Board for NSBE+

President:
Brantley Leaphart ‘21

Co-Vice Presidents:
George Kubai ‘21
Michael Adjei-Mosi ‘21

Programs Chair:
Ndunge Mulwa ‘22

Community outreach:
Andrea Llamas ‘22

Treasurer:
Solomon Boukman ‘22

Secretary:
Charles Somerville ‘22

Telecommunications chair:
Maceo Thompson ‘22

First-Year Liaisons:
Malique Bodie '23
Alana White '23

Black History Month

Feb 12, 2019:

Patricia Bath is the first African American to complete a residency in ophthalmology and the first African-American female doctor to receive a medical patent. She invented the Laserphaco Probe for cataract treatment in 1986 and patented it in 1988. (She also holds patents in Japan, Canada and Europe.) With her Laserphaco Probe, Bath was able to help restore the sight of individuals who had been blind for more than 30 years. In 1976, Bath co-founded the American Institute for the Prevention of Blindness, which established that "eyesight is a basic human right."

Black History Month

Feb 11, 2019:

Aletha Maybank is a physician who focuses on public health, health equity, and preventative medicine. She currently serves as the Deputy Commissioner in the NYC Department of Public Health and is the founding Director for the Center of Health Equity. Maybank launched a campaign to include faces of real-life African-American and Black doctors to Doc McStuffins, an animated children's series on Disney Channel.

Black History Month
February 7:

Mathematician Mary Jackson was one of a small group of African-American women who worked as aeronautical engineers, called "human computers," at NASA during the Space Age. She later became NASA's first black female engineer developing expertise working with wind tunnels and analyzing data on aircraft flight experiments. She is portrayed by Janelle Monáe in the film Hidden Figures.

Black History Month
Feb 5th:

Aprille Ericsson is the first African-American female to receive a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Howard University and the first African-American female to receive a Ph.D. in Engineering at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). A great deal of Ericsson's engineering career at the NASA GSFC was spent helping NASA evolve and fine-tune a global understanding of the sun-earth connection, earth, and space science.

No technical experience is required, and non-engineers and non-CS folks are encouraged to apply (ENGN and CS folks are encouraged, too)!!

Register via this link: https://tinyurl.com/ybaekzzw