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The College of Engineerings National Society of Black Engineers and the Office of Community and Engagement are excited to host a discussion titled

“The Chancellor’s Science Scholars program does not exist to give underrepresented minorities a chance — that is not the correct way to look at it,” said Richard Watkins ’14 (Ph.D.), program coordinator for the Chancellor’s Science Scholars. “What we are doing is creating the best scientists the world has ever seen, and there is not a certain look to that. There is no rhyme or reason to who ends up being the best — you don’t know who will have that breakthrough that’s going ...

UNC alumna Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett is one of the lead scientists for Moderna's coronavirus vaccine. The Board of Commissioners honored the Orange County native by declaring Jan. 20 "Dr. Kizzmekia S. Corbett Day."

(Photo : Twitter@@amydiehl) African-American Scientist Leads Vaccine Research The federal government has invested billions of dollars in the development of the COVID-19 vaccine that will end the global pandemic. When Pres. Trump visited the National Institutes of Health last March, the leads of the vaccine research explained their mission. The key to the success of the agencys mission is the 34-year-old African-American female scientist Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett. During the "CBS This Morning: Satu...

Meet the Black female scientist at the forefront of COVID-19 vaccine development When President Donald Trump paid a visit to the National Institutes of Health last March, the leads at the vaccine research center explained their life-saving mission. The key to that mission was a 34-year-old doctor named Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett. "I was just there telling the task force about the work that weve been doing," Corbett told "CBS This Morning: Saturday" co-host Michelle Miller. Two weeks after the visi...

Black Woman, Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett, Developed the Scientific Approach to the Coronavirus Vaccine By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent Published December 24, 2020   Dr. Anthony Fauci, the leading infectious disease doctor and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, addressed the African American community’s fears of accepting the new coronavirus vaccine. “To my African American brothers and sisters … this vaccine that you’re gonna...

Filed in Faculty on December 22, 2020 The Department of Information Systems (IS) at UMBC invites applications for an open rank tenure-track faculty position starting August 2021. Successful candidates will complement and extend our current strengths. More information about research interests of our faculty can be found at https://informationsystems.umbc.edu/home/research/areas-of-research/. Candidates with research interests cross-cutting multiple areas are particularly encouraged to apply. Ca...