Math professor Lovenia Deconge-Watson (1933 – ) served as Chair and Professor of Mathematics at Southern University from 1986 to 1995, and was a member of the Order of the Sisters of the Holy Family from 1957 to 1976. Link: http://www.idvl.org/sciencemakers/Bio17.html

Mathematician James Curry was born in 1948 in Oakland, California. Curry became interested in mathematics at age twelve, after seeing fascinating symbols and equations in a physics book. He was determined to learn calculus and received a lot of support from his high school math teacher. Curry was also curious about computers after working with one that was donated...

Physicist and education administrator Dr. Roosevelt Calbert was born on November 13, 1931 in Philadelphia, Mississippi. After graduating from Cameron St. High School, Dr. Calbert attended Jackson State University, where he earned his B.S. degree in science. He went on to receive his M.A. degree in science for teaching from the University of Michigan.Then, he attended the University of...

Biologist and academic administrator J. K. Haynes (1943 – ) developed methods for detecting and preventing sickle cell anemia. He is currently Dean of the Division of Science and Mathematics at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia. Link: http://www.idvl.org/sciencemakers/Bio29.html

Biologist and biology professor Tyrone Hayes (1967 – ) is a leading researcher in amphibian endocrinology. Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, Hayes’s work has shown the herbicidal chemical Atrazine to act as an endocrine disruptor in the sexual development of frogs. Link: http://www.idvl.org/sciencemakers/Bio23.html

Professor of biology and curator Scott V. Edwards was born on July 7, 1963 in Honolulu, Hawaii, but he grew up in Riverdale in the Bronx, New York City. From an early age, Edwards was interested in natural history. Before graduating from Harvard University in 1986 with his B.A. degree in biology, he worked at the environmental institute Wave...

Biologist and research director Robert Dottin was born in Trinidad in 1941. He graduated from St. Mary’s College in 1970 with his B.S. degree in in biology. Dottin went on to earn his M.S. degree in medical biophysics in 1972 and his Ph.D. in medical genetics in 1974 from the University of Toronto. Upon graduation, Dottin was awarded the...

Educator, african diaspora ethnographer, and neurophysiologist S. Allen Counter (1954 – ) is the director of the Harvard Foundation. He earned his PhD degree in neurobiology from Case Western Reserve University, and has been involved in ethnographic and scientific studies around the world. Link: http://www.idvl.org/sciencemakers/Bio8.html

Environmental activist and sociologist Robert Bullard (1946 – ) became Director of the Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark-Atlanta University in 1994. For his continued research on contemporary cases of environmental justice and his active presence in the community, Bullard has been called the “Father of Environmental Justice.” He is a pioneer in the field and helped to organize...

Biology and Pharmacology Professor Wayne Darrell Bowen was born to (mother) and (father) in 1952. As a child, Bowen knew early on that he was interested in pursuing a career in science, and indeed, he went on to earn his B.S. degree in Chemistry from Morgan State College, in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1974. Bowen then pursued a graduate degree...