James Thorp Electrical engineer
Thorp made the electrical power grid more reliable.
From This is True for 6 May 2018
education
Educators and other mentors.
Beatrix Hamburg Peer counseling advocate
“Some students have told me that they really believed there was no such thing as an intelligent Negro.”
From This is True for 22 April 2018
Lionel March Computer architect
March was the first to use a computer in architecture.
From This is True for 25 February 2018
Cyril Taylor Foreign education enabler
Sir Cyril created the American Institute for Foreign Study, and I was never the same again.
From This is True for 4 February 2018
Ahmed Zewail Femtochemist
Zewail was the first Arab to win a Nobel Prize in any scientific field, and lamented the quality of education in the Middle East.
From This is True for 7 August 2016
John Lo Schiavo Ethical university president
Lo Schiavo demanded that the University of San Francisco live up to its own ethical standards.
From This is True for 24 May 2015
Robert Panara ASL popularizer
“He was one of the founders of deaf studies — the study of the culture, the community and lives of deaf people.”
From This is True for 27 July 2014
Lee Lorch Mathematician
Met Life was unamused, and got him fired from his new job, too.
From This is True for 2 March 2014
John Dobson Sidewalk astronomer
He designed the Dobsonian Telescope, and it revolutionized astronomy.
From This is True for 19 January 2014
Charles M. Vest Free education pioneer
Vest was recruited to be the president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and led it through massive change.
From This is True for 15 December 2013