The University of Southern California has announced the appointment of Dr. John Brooks Slaughter, WA B ’56, as professor of education and engineering.
“In his new position, Slaughter will focus on what has become his lifelong quest of increasing underrepresented minority participation” in the STEM disciplines.” Read full news release
Most recently, Dr. Slaughter was president and CEO of the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME), 2000-2009.
Read Dr. Slaughter’s biography in the African American History Program from the National Academy of Sciences online.
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Earlier this month, Christopher Bruhn (MO B ’85) won the second annual O’Donnell Texas AP Teacher Award. Read news release
Bruhn is an AP physics teacher at Dallas’ School of Science and Engineering (DISD). Strong consideration of the award was given to the fact that all 24 of Bruhn’s Physics B class passed last year’s physics AP exam.
Learn more about Bruhn in this article from
The Dallas Morning News.
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The Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced a chair of the governing board of the recently created Smart Grid Interoperability Panel.
John D. McDonald, IN A ’73, was the unanimous choice of the governing board members, and “will serve as the board’s chief spokesperson and will have primary responsibility for organizing its meetings and activities.” NIST launched the new Panel in November “to sustain and coordinate development of interoperability standards for a modernized electric power grid.”
McDonald is currently general manager of marketing for GE Energy’s transmission and distribution business, and is also an IEEE Fellow.
Read news release
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