If you were in the mid-1970s, you might remember the pet rock epidemic. For those who don’t — Pet Rock is an advertising copywriter Gary who responded to a friend’s complaint about a destructive pet that his pet rock was an ideal pet and didn’t give him any problems. He was a child of Dahl’s … Read more
In the spring of 2020, planetary cosmochemist Ashley Walker began tweeting under a hashtag after George Floyd was killed by a Minneapolis police officer and Breona Taylor was shot by police in a Louisville apartment. #BlackInAstro.. Walker, a graduate student at Howard University, has contributed to his student-led blog, Astrobites, and recently pitched to his … Read more
Astrophysicist Louise Edwards, Bachelor of Science ’01, was one of the first Black Canadians to earn a PhD in physics. She is an expert in galaxy evolution, and her face appears on Canadian stamps. And she’s just getting started. Louise Edwards fell in love with the sky as a girl and stared at the stars … Read more