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...three-member panel, comprising three African Americans at different stages in their academic careers, offered a range of advice on how to overcome the difficulties of being an academic. They also extolled the virtues of the occupation...
Besides Hammonds, who is also a professor of History of Science and of African American Studies, two other panelists participated—Brandon M. Terry ’05, a fourth year doctoral student in political science and African American studies at Yale; and Christopher Wheat, an assistant professor of technological innovation, entrepreneurship, and strategic management at the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
Shirley Sun, a research assistant at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, said the talk helped her realize the importance of being assertive when looking for a support group...
...kids had much in common. In all four cities, a majority were African American or Hispanic and from low-income families. So why did the results vary so dramatically from city to city...
...Bieniawski says his mission is to help overcome these obstacles by "schmoozing for my country," at which he is pretty good. (Once, he sweet-talked leaders from an African nation with HEU stocks by calling on their shared African heritage; although raised and educated in America, he was born to white parents in South Africa.) When he is unable to convince or pay countries to give up their HEU, Bieniawski offers to upgrade security around their material. That mission gained urgency in November 2007, when two teams of armed attackers stormed Pelindaba, a supposedly secure facility that houses hundreds...