People in the News

DR. SHIRLEY JACKSON, Students say that physics is the science that drives engineering. Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson, a theoretical physicist with a long string of "first" behind her name, is a driver of engineering development, here and around the world.

HERBIE HANCOCK,To those who know him from albums and CDs, Herbie Hancock is just a musician in the sense that a 767 is just a plane. He is a man who has been transforming musical sounds and producing innovations in jazz for half a century.

KWEISI MFUME, and the NAACP: Defining Advancement in the Information Age.

DR. MARK DEAN, "We didn’t have a clue," he said in an interview from IBM’s research facilities in Austin, Tx. "The PC was just an interesting thing we did.

CONGRESSMAN JC WATTS,  was elected to the House of Representatives in 1994, winning 52 percent of the vote in an overwhelmingly White Oklahoma district