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White House Blog – Charles Bolden

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Charles Bolden’s Story: “From the Segregated South to Low Earth Orbit” Posted by Charles Bolden on February 06, 2011 White House Blog Ed. note: This post is part of the Celebrating Black History Month series that highlights the contributions of …

MIT’s Joel Dawson — Honors, Family and Music

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MIT Graduate Redesigns His Boston Community

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Profile: Charles W. Bradley, III, AIA For RRTN by Tristen Graves  Boston Architect, Charles W. Bradley, III, AIA, takes pride in having personal connections to his current project, the Roxbury/Dorchester/Mattapan Transit Needs Study for Blue Hill Avenue; an 8-mile corridor …

MIT Scientist Kristala Jones Prather Finds Breakthroughs in Bioengineering

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Profile: Kristala Jones Prather For RRTN by Dan Sheridan It’s a long way from high school in Longview, Texas, to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in more ways than distance. But Associate Professor Kristala Jones Prather not only made the …

Robert R. Taylor in the news

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A foundation for building How MIT’s first African-American graduate, Robert Taylor, became a prominent architect and brought the MIT philosophy across regional and racial barriers. Peter Dizikes, MIT News Office Read More: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/timeline-taylor-0202.html PIONEERING BLACK ARCHITECTS IN NORTH CAROLINA Today …

MIT’s Phil Freelon in the news

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Making kids care about architecture and history By LISA GRAY HEARST NEWSPAPERS Seattle PI “How many people here know what architects do?” Phil Freelon asked the class. Only a few hands went up, and I began to worry. Read More: …

Black firm in R500m govt-backed flexible plastic packaging film expansion

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By: Martin Creamer 24th January 2011 A 100% black-owned flexible plastic packaging film producer is embarking on a R500-million expansion programme to substitute imports and to capture a larger slice of the burgeoning African market. Read More

William Hunter Dammond

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The Testimony of William Hunter Dammond: The First African American Graduate of the University of Pittsburgh by Roland Barksdale-Hall Bryant & Stratton College Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Read about William Hunter Dammond, the first African American to graduate in Civil Engineering from …

MIT Professor Secures Major Architectural Project in D.C.

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For RRTN by Tristen Graves MIT professor and architect, Philip Freelon, landed a major architectural project for the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.  The museum is set to be built adjacent to the Washington Monument by …

Larry Sass

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Designing on a Futuristic Level For RRTN by Tristen Graves Larry Sass Digital fabrication may come as an unfamiliar concept for many, however for MIT professor and researcher, Larry Sass, it’s the future of architecture. Sass, who earned both a …