Announcements
Below you will find announcements for 2001.
Sunday, November 25, 2001
Dr. Randal Pinkett Spotlighted in Parade
Magazine's "They Are Changing Our World" Issue
NEW YORK, NY (November 25, 2001) -- Today's
issue of Parade Magazine, the Sunday Newspaper Magazine,
spotlighted five Americans that are "combining innovation
with a concern for others [that] are using technology in extraorindary
ways to improve - and save - lives." Dr. Randal Pinkett,
a recent Ph.D. graduate from MIT was spotlighted for his work
with fellow student, Richard O'Bryant, in launching a computer-technology
program at a low- and moderate-income housing development in
Roxbury, MA. For more than 75 million readers, PARADE is more
than a magazine. It is a weekly conversation about the ideals
that bind us together as a nation: freedom, opportunity and
the ability to fulfill our dreams and transform our lives. In
the areas that matter to readers -- health, technology, food,
lifestyle, politics and entertainment -- PARADE's world-renowned
contributors provide expert advice and insight.
It is for this reason that readers across America turn to PARADE
every Sunday in more than 340 of the nation's finest newspapers.
PARADE reaches 36 million households from coast to coast with
a unique mix of cover stories, articles and columns that make
PARADE the most widely read magazine in the country and among
the best-read sections of the Sunday newspaper.
For more information visit: http://www.parade.com/
Friday, October 26, 2001
PolicyLink, the America Connects Consortia
and the Waitt Family Foundation to Convene National Community
Technology Leaders including Dr. Randal Pinkett
SAN DIEGO, CA (October 26, 2001) -- PolicyLink,
the America Connects Consortia and the Waitt Family Foundation
announced the "Building Community Connections" conference
to be held in San Diego, CA, November 15-18, 2001. The event
will convene approximately 40 national community technology
leaders ranging from community technology centers, community
building organizations, technology technical assistance providers,
national intermediaries, and policy organizations and foundations.
Randal Pinkett, Ph.D. candidate at the MIT Media Laboratory
in the Epistemology and Learning Group, has been designated
as one of the invited participants. The purpose of the convening
will be to discuss strategies for linking the community technology
and community building movements, and share common experiences
of linking the expertise of the community technology and community
building movements to create a new policy agenda for using technology
as a tool for community building. PolicyLink is a national nonprofit
research, communications, capacity building, and advocacy organization
working to advance policies to achieve economic and social equity.
The America Connects Consortium (ACC) supports the work of community
technology centers (CTCs) across the country. Funded by the
U.S. Department of Education, ACC provides technical assistance
to centers funded through the federal CTC program. The Waitt
Family Foundation is a charitable organization that makes grants
to programs that help us understand our past, improve the present,
and prepare for the future.
For more information on PolicyLink visit: http://www.policylink.org
For more information on the American Connects Consortia visit:
http://www.americaconnects.net
For more information on the Waitt Family Foundation visit: http://www.waittfoundation.org
Thursday, October 25, 2001
New Jersey's Martin Luther King Commemorative
Commission's Triumph Award to be Presented to Randal Pinkett
TRENTON, NJ (October 25, 2001) -- The New Jersey
Department of State's, Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative
Commission will present their Triumph Award to Randal Pinkett
for his accomplishments as a scholar, entrepreneur and his contributions
to the community. The mission of the New Jersey Martin Luther
King, Jr. Commemorative Commission is to raise public awareness
of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s ideals and philosophy.This
includes: (1) a commitment to preserving constitutional freedoms
for all Americans, (2) assisting all components of American
society to embrace Dr. King's messages on achieving social justice
through nonviolent activism, (3)
celebrating our diversity, promoting education as well as accepting
and appreciating others, (4) helping youth make a difference
in their lives and inspiring them to contribute to the well
being of their families, schools, communities and government,
and (5) encouraging the citizens of New Jersey to recognize
their commonalities and to appreciate the potential strength
of the racial, ethnic and cultural diversity that so richly
enhances our great state and nation. This year the Commission
will present the Triump Award on November 15, 2005 at a ceremony
in Trenton, New Jersey.
For more information visit: http://www.state.nj.us/state/mlk/
Thrusday, July 12, 2001
Doctoral Student Randal Pinkett Chosen
to Participate in University of Michigan Doctoral Digital Divide
(D3) Student Workshop
ANN ARBOR, MI (July 12, 2001) -- The University
of Michigan, School of Information and the Alliance for Community
Technology, a unit at the University of Michigan, have selected
MIT doctoral student Randal Pinkett as one of approximately
twenty doctoral candidates from more than a dozen countries
to participate in the Digital Divide Doctoral Student Workshop
(D3). The work will take place on the campus of the University
of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, from August 2-5, 2001. The goal
for the workshop is establish a small working gathering that
will help create a virtual community where all digital divide
doctoral students can convene and exchange information and ideas.
The conference aims at three outcomes: (1) an edited volume
of the reports of the workshop (also available online), (2)
a short consensus statement on digital divide research for all
doctoral students to sign, and (3) a means for all digital divide
doctoral students to continue the discussion. Each workshop
participant will provide a working paper on a relevant aspect
of digital divide research and the group will discuss each paper.
Pinkett's paper will address the topic of economic development.
For more information visit:
http://www.communitytechnology.org/
Wednesday, May 16, 2001
Sarnoff Corporation Asks Minorities
in Engineering Program Alum, Dr. Randal Pinkett to Return and
Address 2001 Graduates
PRINCETON, NJ (May 16, 2001) -- The Sarnoff
Corporation has asked Dr. Randal Pinkett, a 1986 participant
in their Minoritries in Engineering (MEP) program, to return
for the second year in a row and address the 2001 program graduates.
The program dinner will be held on June 6, 2001, at 7:00 pm,
at Sarnoff's headquarters in Princeton, NJ. The fundamental
intent of the program is to provide minority students from local
high schools, with an aptitude in mathematics and science, with
an understanding and appreciation of an engineer's work and
routine, so that he or she can make an informed choice about
the engineering profession. Sarnoff Corporation has always affirmed
and demonstrated a deep commitment to the education of youth
at all stages of their social and intellectual growth. For 25
years, the flagshgip of Sarnoff's educational programs has been
MEP–the Minorities in Engineering Program. Sarnoff Corporation,
formerly the central research laboratory for RCA, has participated
in the MEP program since its inception in 1975. MEP continued
at Sarnoff after the merger between RCA and General Electric
in 1986. When Sarnoff became an independent client-supported
reseaerch facility and a subsidiary of SRI International in
1987, MEP became the first program to be sponsored by the new
company.
For more information visit: http://www.sarnoff.com/careers/dmep.asp
Monday, March 9, 2001
Alumnus Randal Pinkett Addresses Prospective
Scholars at Rutgers University
PISCATAWAY, NJ (March 9, 2001) -- Randal Pinkett,
a 1994 graduate from Rutgers University, will address prospective
scholars at the Rutgers University Scholars Recruitment Weekend
on March 31, 2001 at 3:00 pm at the Louis Brown Athletic Center
on the Livingston Campus in Piscataway, NJ. Rutgers, The State
University of New Jersey, is one of the leading universities
in the nation. The university is made up of 29 degree-granting
divisions; 12 undergraduate colleges, 11 graduate schools, and
three schools offering both undergraduate and graduate degrees.
Five are located in Camden, seven in Newark, and 14 in New Brunswick/Piscataway.
For more information visit:
http://www.rutgers.edu/
Friday, February 2, 2001
Harvard Business School and Randal Pinkett
Spotlight the "Digital Dilemma" and Challenges to
Excelling in the New Economy
CAMBRIDGE, MA (February 2, 2001) -- This year's
Harvard Business School, African-American Student Union (AASU)
29th Annual Career/Alumni Conference is themed "The Digital
Dilemma: Challenges to Excelling in the New Economy". Randal
Pinkett, Ph.D. candidate at the MIT Media Laboratory, will participate
in this year's event as the moderator for the "Digital
Designs on the Inner City" panel discussion, along with
Rahsaas Harris, executive director of Playing2Win; Anne Habiby,
executive vice president of the Initiative for a Competitive
Inner City, and J. Paul Brownridge, former Los Angeles city
treasurer and candidate for Los Angeles city controller,. The
conference will be held February 23-25, 2001 at the Cambridge
Marriott in Cambridge, MA. The panel will take place on February
24, 2001.
For more information visis http://sa.hbs.edu/aasu/
or click here.
Thursday, January 18, 2001
MIT Ph.D. Candidate Randal Pinkett Chosen
as Graduate Student Speaker for the MIT Rev. Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr. Leadership Awards Breakfast
CAMBRIDGE, MA (January 18, 2001) -- Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT) Ph.D. candidate Randal Pinkett
(M.B.A. and S.M. from the MIT Leaders for Manufacturing Program,
both in 1998) has been chosen as the graduate student speaker
for this year's MIT Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Leadership
Awards Breakfast. Pinkett is purusing his doctorate in the Epistemology
and Learning Group at the MIT Media Laboratory. This year's
awards breakfast will be held on February 8, 2001, at 7:30 am,
on the campus of MIT in Walker Memorial 's Morss Hall. The theme
of this year's breakfast is "Teaching and Learning: the
Key to Full Inclusion." Kwiese Mfume, President and CEO
of the NAACP, will serve as the keynote speaker. The award recipients
include: MIT Professor of Mechanical Engineering Alexander Slocum;
Boston public school math teacher Richard Williamson (S.B. 1985),
and mechanical engineering senior Adriana L. Holguin.
For more information visit:
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/1999/mlk-0210.html or
http://www-tech.mit.edu/V119/N2/naacp.2n.html
