IBM hopes to build students skills in quantum computing while increasing diversity and inclusion in the workforce. Author: Devin Johnson Updated: 7:33 PM EST February 24, 2021
ORANGEBURG, S.C. The IBM-HBCU Quantum Center is a multi-year investment of resources to develop HBCU students at HBCU across the nation to create a more diverse quantum-ready workforce. These courses that IBM has made available to us allow SC State to enhance all of the offerings we already had, said South Carolina State University President James E. Clark.
For SC State University Students like Ramon Lavender, the partnership gives him access to IBM quantum computers on the cloud and more career opportunities.
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Posted February 25, 2021
Archdiocesan Catholic Social Services will host a webinar on a local saint who devoted her life to the Black and Native American communities.
“St. Katharine Drexel – Her Prophetic Mission to Serve and Advocate for Black and Native American Children, and Our Call to Engage in Works of Charity and Justice Today” will take place on March 4 at 12 p.m. via Zoom.
Presenters will include CSS director of mission integration Edward Lis; Sister of the Blessed Sacrament Pat Downs, a vowed member of the religious congregation founded by St. Katharine Drexel; and Joyce Hadley, a lay associate leader within the same community.
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The New Orleans MLB Youth Academy, which is operated by Major League Baseball, and Xavier University of Louisiana (XULA), a Historically Black College & University (HBCU) in New Orleans, have partnered to help launch the university’s 2021 baseball and softball seasons in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA). This season marks the first-time baseball will be offered at Xavier since 1960, and the first-ever softball program in school history.
As part of the agreement, both programs will receive full access for games and practices to the facilities at the New Orleans MLB Youth Academy, including Wesley Barrow Stadium, the artificial turf softball field, indoor/outdoor bullpens and batting cages, and the 200-square-foot climate-controlled press box. The teams are scheduled to play their first home games at the New Orleans MLB Youth Academy on Tuesday, February 23rd (baseball) and Saturday, February 27th (softball), resp
Distinguished faculty
In addition to this rapid growth, we are honored to have distinguished faculty as members of the Center, including Howard University associate professor of physics Thomas Searles, winner of the inaugural Joseph A. Johnson III Award for Excellence; Serena Eley, an assistant professor of physics at the Colorado School of Mines and head of the Eley Quantum Materials Group; and Anderson Sunda-Meya, an associate professor of physics at Xavier University of Louisiana and recipient of the 2021 American Physical Society Excellence in Physics Education Award.
Professors Eley and Searles have also received grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) through the organization’s Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program. The program supports early-career faculty who have the potential to become academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in their department or organization.
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