Archive for: 2014

Roosevelt Calbert

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...

Tyrone Hayes

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

Scott Edwards

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...

Robert Dottin

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...

S. Allen Counter

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

Robert Bullard

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...

Wayne Bowen ********

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...

Herbert Winful

Electrical Engineer Herbert Winful was born on December 12, 1952 in London, England and raised in Cape Coast, Ghana in West Africa. His father Herbert Francis was an engineer, and his mother Margaret Ferguson Graves was a teacher. As a child Winful was mesmerized by lasers and often dreamed of developing his own. As a sophomore attending MIT Winful...

Andrew Williams

Electrical and computer engineer Andrew B. Williams was born in Junction City, Kansas to parents John M. Williams and Yuson Kim Williams. After receiving his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Kansas in 1988, Williams worked briefly in engineering. He then enrolled in Marquette University and graduated from there in 1995 with his M.S. degree in...
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