{"62535":{"#nid":"62535","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Women\u2019s Leadership Conference Honors First Black Women Matriculating at Ga. Tech","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EEach year, Georgia Tech\u2019s Women\u2019s Leadership Conference focuses on the \ncelebration of outstanding women and their accomplishments. With the \ntheme \u201cRise Above the Ordinary,\u201d this year\u2019s conference was no exception\n as the first black women who matriculated at the Georgia Institute of \nTechnology were honored. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA number of the 2010 honorees, who attended Georgia Tech in 1970 and \n1971, went on to attend institutions such as Yale, Stanford, the \nMassachusetts Institute of Technology and Mount Holyoke. Others, who \nwere public school teachers, attended Georgia Tech through a National \nScience Foundation grant designed to equip them to develop computer \nscience curricula for Atlanta Public Schools. After leaving, a number of\n the women provided support to send other gifted black students to \nGeorgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\nAmong those representing the first black women to obtain degrees from Georgia Tech are Adesola Kujoure Nurudeen, Ph.D. in chemical engineering; Tawana Miller, \nfirst dual degree recipient to obtain a bachelor\u2019s degree; and Grace \nHammonds and Clemmie Whatley, the first recipients of master\u2019s degrees \nin mathematics. Others honored included Alyce Martin Ware, \nretired publisher of the Atlanta Voice and Annie Bryant Smith, a retired\n educator from Kite, Ga., along with Bonnie Cameron, Yale University and New York\nUniversity School of Law; Shirley Marshall, Alabama State College and Georgia\nState University; and Anita Turner, Rust College and Atlanta University.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech is among the top producers of women and minority engineers.\n The recognition of these outstanding black women coincides with the \n50th anniversary of the matriculation of black students at the Georgia \nInstitute of Technology, which celebrates the contributions that \nAfrican-American students, staff and alumni have made to the Institute.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Women\u2019s Leadership Conference was held at the Georgia Tech Hotel and Student Center October 29-30.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Annual Event Celebrates Outstanding Women"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EEach year, Georgia Tech\u2019s Women\u2019s Leadership Conference focuses on the \ncelebration of outstanding women and their accomplishments. With the \ntheme \u201cRise Above the Ordinary,\u201d this year\u2019s conference was no exception\n as the first black women who matriculated at the Georgia Institute of \nTechnology were honored.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Each year, Georgia Tech\u2019s Women\u2019s Leadership Conference focuses on the celebration of outstanding women and their accomplishments."}],"uid":"27281","created_gmt":"2010-11-03 17:53:52","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:07:42","author":"Lisa Grovenstein","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-11-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2010-11-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"62536":{"id":"62536","type":"image","title":"First Black Women Matriculating at Georgia Tech Honored","body":null,"created":"1449176369","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:59:29","changed":"1475894544","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:24","alt":"First Black Women Matriculating at Georgia Tech Honored","file":{"fid":"191493","name":"WLC-2.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/WLC-2_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/WLC-2_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2526522,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/WLC-2_0.jpg?itok=DLu9Eb-0"}}},"media_ids":["62536"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.gtwlc.com\/","title":"Women\\\u0027s Leadership Conference"}],"groups":[{"id":"1317","name":"News Briefs"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"736","name":"diversity"},{"id":"10878","name":"Matriculation"},{"id":"4476","name":"Women\u0027s Leadership Conference"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELisa Grovenstein, 404-894-8835\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["lisa.grovenstein@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}