innovation winners
H BC U award
INCLUSIVENESS HAS LONG BEEN A PART OF MAKING SCIENCE MORE DIVERSE, MAKING IT POSSIBLE FOR PEOPLE TO DO THE
GREATEST GOOD FOR ALL HUMANITY.
Countless scientists have driven America forward with their innovations. To name a few, there’s Elijah McCoy, “the real McCoy,” who invented the mechanical oil cup, which helped to improve train safety, and the legendary Lewis Latimer, who worked with Alexander Bell and then Thomas Edison. Latimer created a much longer lasting bulb so everyone could aff ord to light their homes.
After witnessing needless deaths in road crashes, Garrett Morgan developed a prototype of the traffi c signal. Similarly, Charles Richard Drew saved countless lives with his method of separating red blood cells from plasma, giving the United States Army and Navy model blood banks for the very fi rst time. Eventually, members of the public were also able to receive blood transfusions.
Notably, although George Washington Carver spent more than 40 years at historically Black Tuskegee, he actually got his start and baccalaureate degree at Iowa State University. Iowa still celebrates the iconic scientist although he migrated years ago. Without Carver’s pioneering laboratory at Tuskegee, the tradition of Black colleges and universities “helping the world” while serving as thriving hubs and creating spaces to invent the future may not have developed as quickly. Over the last 200 years, HBCUs have made scores of contributions to American success with new discoveries and applications.
No doubt about it, Carver would be proud of this year’s crop of Innovation Award winners from ABET-accredited historically black colleges and universities.
They have earned millions of dollars in competitive Department of Defense and National Institutes of Health grants, published hundreds and hundreds of peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, presented their work at countless meetings, and appeared in numerous documentaries and television interviews.
They 2017/18 winners have earned patents and been involved in the formation of profi table spin-off companies based on the technologies they invented. They are advancing diverse people in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM); staying active in the struggle to protect and improve the teaching of science; and addressing the under-representation of minorities in science careers. Meet the latest cadre of scientists and engineers who continue to build on decades of innovation at historically Black colleges and universities.
68 USBE&IT | CONFERENCE ISSUE 2018
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