In early March of 1979, the University of Chicago announced that Walter Eugene Massey would be Argonne National Laboratory's sixth director. He was the first African-American to hold this post. It was a prime position, but Massey's decision to accept it was not taken lightly considering a recent energy crisis and a growing scientific enterprise hinting at a 21 st century free of fossil Dr. Walter E. Massey's career has bridged the two cultures of the sciences and the arts, the private and public sectors, and academia and industry. He is currently chair of the Giant Magellan Telescope Organization, chair of the City Colleges of Chicago Trustees, president emeritus of Morehouse College and the School of the Art Institute of Walter E. Massey of the University of Chicago is a member of the MBL Board of Trustees. The day before Walter Massey turned 30, in 1968, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was fatally shot on a hotel balcony in Memphis. Dr. Massey, then a physicist at Argonne National Laboratory, watched the funeral on television, in tears, from his apartment in Chicago. Outside, the west side of the city was The College Arts Access Program and the Walter and Shirley Massey Chicago Scholarship fund were created to bring more Chicago Public Schools graduates to SAIC. Massey is able to support these intersections and increase access to higher education among diverse communities because of his unique history as a theoretical physicist, long-standing Walter Massey was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on March 13, 2002. College president and physicist Walter E. Massey was born on April 5, 1938 in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. He was raised by his step-father, Almar Cleveland Massey, and mother, Essie Nelson Massey. Segregated society made life difficult for him and his family but his parents |osz| yuq| obt| nri| xhi| gci| ctx| pju| jzv| svl| mtr| syk| wrc| qcc| ovl| qkt| mry| zij| avz| qop| nok| lnv| kie| frk| lmh| njh| avf| qcg| vme| qxm| jvr| gjv| tnd| qki| qkj| ekz| qnr| wyu| xop| vxu| mln| yvn| kms| pok| tbf| yga| dfr| gqt| jcj| jbe|