http://www.nsbp.org National Society of Black Physicists Release RSS feed. . Copyright 2005, National Society of Black Physicists Tendenci Membership Management Software by Schipul - The Web Marketing Company en-us noemail@nsbp.org Mon, 20 May 2013 14:44:56 GMT Release http://www.nsbp.org/en/rel/52/ For information, contact Charles McGruder at (270) 745-4357. ARLINGTON, Va. – The National Society of Black Physicists (NSBP) has received a six-year, $350,000 grant from the William K. Kellogg Foundation to help South Africa increase its number of Black astronomers. Dr. Charles McGruder, NSBP president from 1999-2001 and the William McCormack Professor in Physics at Western Kentucky University (WKU), has long been focusing on capacity building in astronomy on the African continent. This is especially important in South Africa where there has been recently been large investments in telescopes. South Africa occupies a unique geographical position relative to locations of most of the telescopes in the world. Recognizing this strategic advantage, the South African government has decided to invest heavily in astronomy/astrophysics by building the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT), the largest single optical telescope in the southern hemisphere. Other nations, most notably... http://www.nsbp.org/en/rel/52/ noemail@nsbp.org Thu, 23 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMT