Computer scientist and computer science professor Andrea Lawrence was born in Asheville, North Carolina on October 6, 1946 to Jeanne Hayes and Emory Williams. Her family supported education and both of her parents finished college after she was born. Lawrence graduated from Allen High School in Ashville in 1964 and enrolled at Spelman College. She finished her undergraduate education...

Mathematician and computer scientist Katherine Johnson was born on August 26, 1918 in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia to Joylette and Joshua Coleman. Her mother was a teacher and her father was a farmer and janitor. From a young age, Johnson enjoyed mathematics and could easily solve mathematical equations. Her father moved Johnson’s family to Institute, West Virginia, which...

Computer scientist Odest Chadwicke Jenkins was born on xx/xx/1975 in , . Jenks attended Alma College, where he graduated with his B.S. degrees in computer science and mathematics in 1996. He enrolled in graduate school at Georgia Technical Institute and received his M.S. degree in computer science in 1998. There he was a graduate research assistant and a graduate...

Electrical engineer Ayanna Howard (1972 – ) is the creator of the SnoMote robots and the founder of the Human-Automation Systems (HumAnS) Lab at Georgia Institute of Technology focuses on how to enhance the autonomy of robot functionality. Her SnoMote robots are internationally recognized for their ability to study the impact of climate change in such remote areas as...

Electrical engineer and computer graphics designer Marc Hannah (1956 – ) co-founded and designed hardware for Silicon Graphics, Inc., a leading company in the graphics design industry during the 1990s. As principal scientist he was responsible for the creation of computer programs like Personal IRIS, Indigo, Indigo2, and Indy graphics that are used to create effects for movies like...

Electrical engineer, computer scientist and engineering professor Ralph Etienne-Cummings was born in August 20, 1967 in Mahe, Seychelles to Marguerita Etienne and Eddie Micock. His mother later married Herman Cummings, who formally adopted him. Etienne-Cummings first showed his aptitude for engineering when he fixed the reception on his short wave radio in order to listen to a soccer match....

Electrical engineer and academic administrator Legand Burge (1949 – ) became the Dean of the College of Engineering, Architecture, and Physical Sciences at Tuskegee University in 1999, after a thirty-year career in the United States Air Force. Burge’s engineering career focused on information theory, coding theory, digital signal processing, and communications – areas of research that had become very...

Environmental Chemist and Academic Administrator Bobby L. Wilson (1942 – ) is Provost at Texas Southern University and served in a leadership role in the National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers (NOBCChE). Over the course of his career as an environmental chemist, Wilson held three patents and won numerous research grants from institutions...

Biochemist and biochemistry professor John Watson (1940 – ) researched the regulation and metabolism of cholesterol and other sterols in biological pathways at the University of California, San Francisco for more than thirty years. Link: http://www.idvl.org/sciencemakers/Bio25.html

Chemistry professor and research chemist, Isiah M. Warner was born in DeQuincy, Louisiana, on July 20, 1946 to Humphrey and Erma Warner. He developed an interest in science and mathematics early on and conducted his first experiment by drinking kerosene to see why it created light. Warner graduated as valedictorian of his class from Bunkie, Louisiana’s Carver High School...