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 Thu, 23 May 2013 21:23:34 GMT Release http://www.nsbp.org/en/rel/91/ NSBP members, Charles McGruder and Hakeem Oluseyi, are participating in SciFest Africa this week as special representatives of the United States.&nbsp; <br> <br> Held annually in late March as South Africa's national science festival,&nbsp; SciFest Africa is a fun-filled event specially styled to make science, technology, engineering and mathematics accessible to and of interest to every-day people. Each year SciFest Africa offers over 550 events and activities, including exhibitions, educational theatre, lectures, hands-on workshops, excursions, a soap box derby, laser-shows, quizzes, Science Olympics,and whiz-bang science shows.&nbsp; It is the biggest science festival in sub-Saharan Africa.&nbsp; The 2008 Festival was attended by no less than 58,000 people.<br> <br> Dr. McGruder, a former president of NSBP, will be giving two public lectures, one on the STARBASE project and another on the search for extra-solar planets.&nbsp; In a separate event&nbsp; Dr. Oluseyi will be lecturing on how dark matter and dark energy help explain the motion of galaxies. <br> <br> Dr. McGruder is the director of NSBP's program to build capacity in astronomy in Southern Africa.&nbsp; While in South Africa he will also be meeting will government officials about South Africa's bid for the SKA telescope.&nbsp;&nbsp; Dr. Oluseyi has been a faculty member in NSBP's program, having taught classes in astrophysics in the National Astrophysics and Space Science Program at the University of Cape Town.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Their participation in SciFest Africa is sponsored by the US State Department's Bureau of International Information Programs.<br> http://www.nsbp.org/en/rel/91/ noemail@nsbp.org Sun, 22 Mar 2009 17:00:00 GMT