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Mareena Robinson Snowden Is The 1st Black Woman to Earn a Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering From MIT
Mareena Robinson Snowden became the first black woman to earn a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology when she crossed the stage at her graduation on June 8. Provocatively, a career in STEM wasn’t always something Snowden was interested in. “Engineering definitely was not something I had a passion for at…
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Ugandan Creates Device to Detect Malaria
It was announced on Friday that Brian Gitta, a software engineer from Uganda, has become the youngest person to receive the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation. Gitta, 24, created a device that can detect malaria, the disease that kills one child every 30 seconds (pdf). Gitta’s invention is able to detect the disease without the…