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National Academy of Sciences elects physics professor Jim Gates
Wednesday, May 1, 2013

UMD physics professor Sylvester James Gates, Jr. is one of 84 U.S. researchers and 21 foreign associates newly elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS).

Election to the academy is considered one of the highest honors that can be accorded a U.S. scientist or engineer. It is the latest honor in an extraordinary year for Gates. In January, he was named a University System of Maryland Regents Professor, and in February President Obama awarded him the National Medal of Science in a White House ceremony.

That award cited Dr. Gates’ “contributions to the mathematics of supersymmetry in particle, field, and string theories and extraordinary efforts to engage the public on the beauty and wonder of fundamental physics.”

reference: http://cmps.umd.edu/news-events/news/1022



    Sylvester James Gates '73, Ph.D. '77 awarded National Medal of Science by President Obama 01FEB13 click here to read more



    Photo By JASON REED/Reuters

    • BAMIT Fundraiser 29SEP12 hosted by Reggie Van Lee '79, SM '80 by Elaine Harris '78 click here
    • BAMIT Fundraiser 29SEP12 hosted by Reggie Van Lee '79, SM '80 by Emerson Yearwood '80 click here
    • BAMIT 2012 National Meetings 22-23SEP12 (MIT ALC) by Elaine Harris '78 click here
    • MIT 2012 President Reif Inauguration by Chris Rose '79, SM '81, PhD '85 click here
    2012 Caribbean Science Foundation Workshop - October 5-6, Grenada click here for more information
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Kristala Prather earns tenure

Fri, 03 May 2013 17:11:20 -0500

Professor Kristala Prather earns tenure http://web.mit.edu/cheme/index.html

Paula T. Hammond, the David H. Koch Professor in Engineering

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 17:04:52 -0500

Paula T. Hammond, the David H. Koch Professor in Engineering elected this year to the prestigious honorary society American Academy of Arts and Sciences. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2013/nine-from-mit-named-to-academy.html

Harvard Graduate School of Business – 2013 Summer Venture in Management Program (SVMP)

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 14:10:16 -0600

SVMP is a one-week management training program at Harvard Business School designed to increase diversity and opportunity in business education. Additional information can be found at www.hbs.edu/svmp

Phillip Howard Daniel ’13 – MIT Student Initiative to Promote STEM – Funding Sought

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 12:29:59 -0600

From Phillip Howard Daniel ’13 We believe that the best way to inform students about engineering, and inspire them to pursue it, is to expose them through hands on engineering projects. However, many schools in underprivileged areas can’t afford conventional projects to supplement their curriculum. The result is that the engineering discipline is un-diverse both

Sylvester James (Jim) Gates, Jr. ’73, Ph.D. ’77 – MIT Club of Washington 19FEB13

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 16:22:47 -0600

http://alumweb.mit.edu/clubs/washingtondc/eventsFY13/JimGates1.html

Arthur Musah ’04 film, One Day I Too Go Fly, follows students from Tanzania, Nigeria, Rwanda, and Zimbabwe as they seek to become engineers

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 18:30:57 -0600

Arthur Musah ’04 film, One Day I Too Go Fly, follows students from Tanzania, Nigeria, Rwanda, and Zimbabwe as they seek to become engineers—they are majoring in civil engineering, chemical engineering, and electrical engineering and computer science—and make their way in America. Musah has launched a Kickstartercampaign to fund the upcoming year of the four-year

Graduate student David Sengeh gives back to Sierra Leone

Tue, 18 Dec 2012 18:00:46 -0600

Media Lab doctoral student created a competition to help youth in his home country create their own solutions. David Sengeh

MIT’s Paula Hammond finds big potential in molecules

Wed, 18 Jul 2012 13:14:37 -0500

MIT’s Paula Hammond finds big potential in molecules

From the chemical engineer’s lab come high-tech wonders with practical applications. http://www.bostonglobe.com/2012/07/14/mit-paula-hammond-finds-big-potential-molecules/qGFeo3Ztlv9E9hkZD9T5ML/story.html

George O’Neal Lyons ’82

Tue, 10 Jul 2012 14:13:38 -0500

Rest in Peace October 1, 1960 ~ July 6,

Sylvester James Gates Named a Member of the American Philosophical Society : The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education

Sat, 09 Jun 2012 23:32:43 -0500

http://www.jbhe.com/2012/06/sylvester-james-gates-named-a-member-of-the-american-philosophical-society

  
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Black History Project Fund (3839050)

The project’s overall objective is to place the black experience at MIT in its full and appropriate context, by pulling together and disseminating a varied set of materials and by exposing a larger community of interests—both inside and outside MIT—to this rich, historically significant legacy. This project seeks to identify, assemble, organize, analyze, interpret, and provide access to a broad range of materials on the black experience at MIT; to cultivate public interest in these materials; and to encourage widespread participation in studying, preserving, and disseminating them. After completing and exploring a considerable amount of information from the MIT archives and Museum, oral history—including TECHNOLOGY AND THE DREAM, a black alumni survey, and other relevant archival materials, the next phase of this project is to develop a Web-Based History of the Black Experience at MIT.

Click here for an important message from Clarence G. Williams, MIT Professor of Urban Studies & Planning and Special Assistant To the President, Emeritus. Thank you.Gifts from alumni/ae and friends to support the Black History Project Fund (3839050) accepted at Giving to MIT

Blacks at MIT History Project

  
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Gates named MLK Visiting Professor in Physics
Sylvester James Gates Jr. ‘73, PhD ‘77, a physicist and mathematician renowned for his pioneering work in theoretical physics and for his commitment and creativity in communicating scientific concepts, has been named Martin Luther King, Jr., Visiting Professor in Physics for 2010-2011.

Who Inspired You? - Featuring Gates and Jackson

  
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Tuskegee University - Architecture department status elevated, named for legendary architect Taylor
  TUSKEGEE, Alabama (July 30, 2010) – In a final action prior to his departure, Dr. Benjamin F. Payton, President of Tuskegee University, announced today that the Board of Trustees approved his recommendation to elevate the Department of Architecture at Tuskegee University to School status.

Simultaneously, the Board named the unit the Robert R. Taylor School of Architecture, in honor of the first black to graduate in architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Taylor accepted the task to set up the architecture program at Tuskegee in 1892, at the invitation of the institution's founder, Booker T. Washington. Taylor's handiwork is seen all over the historic district of the campus and in the history books of American architects. read more ...
  
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