Press Releases - Physics & Astronomy News for National Society of Black Physicists

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President and Mrs. Obama to Host White House Star Party
Release Date: 6-Oct-09 Author or Contact: NSBP Headquarters
The President and First Lady will host an event at the White House for middle-school students to highlight the President's commitment to science, engineering and math education as the foundation of this nation's global technological and economic leadership and to express his support for astronomy in particular - for its capacity to promote a greater awareness of our place in the universe, expand human knowledge, and inspire the next generation ...
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Professor Jim Gates Sworn In as a Member of the Maryland State Board of Education
Release Date: 2-Jul-09 Author or Contact: NSBP Headquarters Category: Recent News
Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley administered the oath of office to Dr. Sylvester (Jiim) Gates for a seat on the Maryland State Board of Education. Governor O'Malley had nominated Professor Gates to the board back in March 2009 when he remaked, “I am especially proud to make a number of appointments to fill key leadership positions on our State Board of Education, the University System Board of Regents and the Community Colleges Boards ...
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NSBP Members Participate in SciFest Africa
Release Date: 22-Mar-09 Author or Contact: NSBP Headquarters Category: Recent News
Drs. Charles McGruder and Hakeem Oluseyi participate in SciFest Africa as special US representatives.
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Governor Nominates Former NSBP President to the State Board of Education
Release Date: 22-Mar-09 Author or Contact: NSBP Headquarters Category: Recent News
Professor Jim Gates has been appointed to the Maryland State Board of Education.
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Secretary of the Navy, Dr. Donald C. Winter, to be keynote speaker at conference of Black and Hispanic Physicists
Release Date: 11-Feb-08 Author or Contact: NSBP Headquarters
Secretary of the Navy, Dr. Donald C. Winter, will be the Friday luncheon speaker at the 2008 Joint Annual Conference of the National Society of Black Physicists and the National Society of Hispanic Physicists on Friday, February 22, 2008. Dr. Winter is the 74th Secretary of the Navy, sworn into office on Jan. 3, 2006. As Secretary of the Navy, he leads America's Navy and Marine Corps Team and is responsible for an annual budget ...
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FAMU Physicists Discover Nanoscale Turbulence
Release Date: 18-Jan-08 Author or Contact: Joseph Johnson
Breaks the commonly accepted view of chaotic-like motions
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NOBEL LAUREATE JOHN C. MATHER TO DELIVER KEYNOTE ADDRESS AT NSBP/NSHP CONFERENCE
Release Date: 16-Sep-07 Author or Contact: Conference Manager
NASA Scientist and Nobel Laureate John C. Mather to be keynote speaker at opening dinner of 2008 NSBP/NSHP conference.
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PROFESSOR ABOUBAKER BEYE, CEO OF THE AFRICAN LASER CENTRE, TO DELIVER KEYNOTE ADDRESS AT NSBP/NSHP CONFERENCE
Release Date: 7-Sep-07 Author or Contact: Conference Manager
International expert on nanomaterials, technology transfer and multi-national cooperation in physics to give keynote address at 2008 NSBP/NSHP conference.
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NSBP RECEIVES KELLOGG FOUNDATION GRANT
Release Date: 22-Aug-07 Author or Contact: Charles McGruder Category: Recent News
The National Society of Black Physicists (NSBP) has received a six-year, $350,000 grant from the William K. Kellogg Foundation to help South Africa increase its number of Black astronomers.
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NSBP Member Richard Robinson Develops Novel Nanosynthesis Method
Release Date: 9-Aug-07 Author or Contact: Rich Robinson Category: Recent News
BERKELEY, CA — Superlatticed or “striped" nanorods – crystalline materials only a few molecules in thickness and made up of two or more semiconductors – are highly valued for their potential to serve in a variety of nanodevices, including transistors, biochemical sensors and light-emitting diodes (LEDs). Until now the potential of superlatticed nanorods has been limited by the ...
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DR. BYRON K. FREELON IS THE RECIPIENT OF THE FIRST MOREHOUSE PHYSICS PRIZE
Release Date: 13-Jul-07 Author or Contact: Keith Jackson Category: Recent News
Dr.Byron K. Freelon, a research scientist at the University of California-Berkeley, has won the first Morehouse Physics Prize.
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OSA and SPIE Co-Sponsor Best Poster Awards at Annual NSBP/NSHP Meeting
Release Date: 15-Mar-07 Author or Contact: KiKi L'Italien
WASHINGTON, March 15 -- Peter Delfyett (Univ. of Central Florida, CREOL) and Anthony Johnson (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) served as Best Poster Presentation judges on behalf of OSA and SPIE at the Joint Meeting of the National Society of Black Physicists and the National Society of Hispanic Physicists, February 21-25, 2007 in Boston. The following awards were presented at the Saturday evening banquet: Undergraduate ...
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Peter Delfyett to Lead National Society of Black Physicists
Release Date: 1-Mar-07 Author or Contact: NSBP Headquarters
Peter Delfyett, a University of Central Florida professor of optics, physics and electrical and computer engineering, has been named president-elect of the National Society of Black Physicists.
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CONFERENCE OF BLACK PHYSICISTS CELEBRATES 30TH YEAR OF THE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF BLACK PHYSICISTS
Release Date: 13-Feb-07 Author or Contact: Quinton Williams Category: Recent News
2007 NSBP/NSHP Conference
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Financial Gift by Dr. and Mrs. Walter Massey Establishes Morehouse Physics Prize and Elmer S. Imes Scholarship
Release Date: 1-Oct-06 Author or Contact: Keith Jackson
Through a financial gift by Dr. and Mrs. Walter Massey, the National Society of Black Physicists has established the Elmer S. Imes Physics Scholarship and the Morehouse Physics Prize.
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