Kuiper is considered by many to be the father of modern planetary science. As professor at the University of Chicago, he was dissertation advisor to Carl Sagan. In 1958, the two worked on the classified military Project A119, the secret Air Force plan to detonate ...
Dunbar lead the University of Houston's STEM Center (science, technology, engineering and math) and was a faculty member in the Cullen College of Engineering. Currently, she is a professor of aerospace engineering at Texas A&M University and serves as Director of the Institute for Engineering ...
During World War II, MIT administered the Radiation Laboratory, which became the nation’s leading centre for radar research and development, as well as other military laboratories. After the war, MIT continued to maintain strong ties with military and corporate patrons, who supported basic and ...
Barclays: Sophomore Springboard is an internship for high-achieving, underrepresented candidates, including female, Black, Hispanic/Latino, Native American and LGBTQAI+ students, as well as military veterans and students with disabilities. Google: The Building Opportunities for Leadership and Development ...
One exception is the University of Virginia; since its founding in 1819, the terms "first-year", "second-year", "third-year", and "fourth-year" have been used to describe undergraduate university students. At the United States military academies, at least those operated directly by the ...
Dan White’sarticleon Admiral (retired) McRaven’s new job as Chancellor of the University of Texas system provides a warning that must be heeded. There is dangerous intent behind the appointment of military flag officers and national security operatives to leading public college and university lea...
I didn't know what a SSN was at the time. I went home and I started asking my parents and other relatives, that had lived in the country for a longer period, about it but they avoided the questions. My school principal and parents laid out my options; the military or marrying a US...
[It was] a nauseating outpouring of praise from black Americans for a coterie of Africa’s most ruthless strongmen and dictators. There were such famous champions of civil rights as Jesse Jackson heaping accolades on the likes of Nigeria’s number one military thug at the time, Gen. Ibrahim...
With the exorbitant costs of modern, large-scale, scientific research shifted from industry to government, previously impractical “big science” experiments, such as the Manhattan Project, became feasible. Subsequently, this system of funding and directing scientific research through the military became ...
Large organizations of engineers and scientists industrial manufacturers, university research, and military establishment were assembled,the military's unique technological demands, concentration of funding, large scale application, and highly centralized control brought about technological innovations. Fundamental ...