John Mankins
John C. Mankins, President of Artemis Innovation Management Solutions LLC is an internationally recognized leader in space systems and technology innovation, and as a highly effective manager of large-scale technology R&D programs.
Mr. Mankins 25-year career at NASA and CalTech s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) ranged from flight projects and space mission operations, to systems level innovation and advanced technology research & development management. He is also well known as an innovator in R&D management. For example, building on the original NASA technology readiness level (TRL) scale for technology assessment (defined first with 6 or 7 levels in the 1970s), he extended the scale to flight systems and operations in the late 1980s (TRLs 8 and 9), published the first detailed definitions of the TRLs in 1995, and promoted the use of the scale by the US Department of Defense in the late 1990s.
New Telfair Museums leader: Museums can be a safe haven for dark times
Savannah Morning News
According to Ben Simons, Savannah has a safe haven, a refuge if you will, from the chaotic world we ve all found ourselves living in.
Simons, the new executive director and CEO of the Telfair Museums, said that haven can be found at any or all of the museums sites.
Whether it s a visiting piece by Picasso (coming this year), an Italian sculpture, a self-portrait by poet and novelist Kahil Gibran or a Regency-style 1819 mansion, all three sites of the Telfair provide a calm and unhurried bit of wonder.
According to Ben Simons, Savannah has a safe haven, a refuge if you will, from the chaotic world we ve all found ourselves living in.
Simons, the new executive director and CEO of the Telfair Museums, said that haven can be found at any or all of the Telfair Museums sites.
Whether it s a visiting piece by Picasso (coming this year), an Italian sculpture, a self-portrait by poet and novelist Kahil Gibran, or a Regency-style 1819 mansion, all three sites of the Telfair provide a calm and unhurried bit of wonder.
Simons said that attendance at the museums has been steadily climbing, reaching about half of pre-pandemic attendance levels since the museums reopened in late June.
Photo: Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times/Polaris
Madison Dabalos, 18, left, and Ixchel Cisneros, 18, wearing face masks walk back to their dorms takeout breakfast from Gastronome at Cal State Fullerton on Aug. 21, 2020.
Photo: Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times/Polaris
Madison Dabalos, 18, left, and Ixchel Cisneros, 18, wearing face masks walk back to their dorms takeout breakfast from Gastronome at Cal State Fullerton on Aug. 21, 2020.
January 15, 2021
The U.S. Department of Education released $21.2 billion Thursday as part of the coronavirus relief legislation Congress and President Trump approved in December to help colleges and universities nationally. Of that amount, more than $2.83 billion will go to public and private California colleges and universities.