National Society of Black Physicists

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NSBP is a global professional society uniting African American, Afro-Caribbean and African physicists and astronomers in their pursuit of understanding matter and energy, and using that to benefit mankind.

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SA President approves new law to support astronomy research.

South Africa is vying to host the Square Kilometer Array, which would be the largest and most sensitive radio telescope ever.  South Africa has aggressively developed its activities in astronomy, astrophysics and space science, including hosting the Southern African Large Telescope.

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Vanderbilt and University of Cape Town Astronomers Look for New Planets

Keivan Stassun, chair of NSBP's ASTRO section, leads a team of Vanderbilt and Fisk students working with South African colleagues on search for new planets.

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 Building Astronomy Capacity in Africa. NSBP has been awarded a grant from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation to fund students and faculty to participate in the NASSP program in South Africa.

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From NSBP Conference Proceedings:
Astrophysics in South Africa

South Africa operates a 10-m class optical telescope, the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT), and is one of two countries short listed to host the Square Kilometre Array (SKA).

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NSBP Participates in Sullivan Summit

Pre-summit S&T workshop brought together a select group of American scientists and science policymakers with their African counterparts to try to discuss new collaborations between the US and Africa.

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Developing an African Einstein

African University of Science and Technology along with a Nigerian node of the African Mathematical  Institutes opens in Abuja as part of an ambitious plan to find the "next Einstein" in Africa.

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NSBP Members Teach Advanced Courses at NASSP

BNL physicist, Ketevi Assamagan, and FIT professor, Hakeem Oluseyi recently spent 5 weeks at the University of Cape Town teaching intensive courses and forging new research collaborations.

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Dr. Khotso Mokhele, the  first President of the South African National Research Foundation discusses S&T policy at the 2004 NSBP/NSHP conference

 


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