JOUR 2311 - Biography & News Sources by Hagman, Jessica https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill en-us 2018-09-26 14:42:08 UTC 2018-09-26 16:58:07 UTC hello@padlet.com Currently 102 years old hagman https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286061639 Born April 12, 1916, making her 102 years old.

Source: The Writer's Directory (2018)]]> 2018-09-26 14:47:20 UTC https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286061639 Grew up on a farm hagman https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286062932 Cleary grew up on a farm in Yamhill, Oregon, an experience Cleary described in her autobiographical work, A Girl from Yamhill.

Source: Authors and Artists for Young Adults (2005) ]]> 2018-09-26 14:49:13 UTC https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286062932 Currently 60 years old https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286113039 Born  Oct. 5, 1958, making him 60 years old.

Source: Contemporary Black Biography (2008)]]> 2018-09-26 16:04:44 UTC https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286113039 Currently 41 years old https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286113345 Born in 1977, making her 41 years old.

Source: Contemporary Black Biography (2018)]]> 2018-09-26 16:05:13 UTC https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286113345 Currently 44 years old https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286113771 Born on October 15, 1974, in Omaha, Nebraska

Source: Contemporary Black Biography, 2017]]> 2018-09-26 16:05:55 UTC https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286113771 Beginning of Life https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286113791 Born June 07, 1954 (64) to a  Chippewa mother and a German American father. Oldest of seven children.

Source:  "Louise Erdrich." St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, Gale, 2013. Biography In Context,

]]> 2018-09-26 16:05:57 UTC https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286113791 Currently 70 years old https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286113991 She was born on November 3rd, 1947 in Fukushima, Japan.

Source: Gale Biography in context, 2012.]]> 2018-09-26 16:06:13 UTC https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286113991 Second National Book Award https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286114430 Jesmyn Ward won the National Book Award for fiction for ''Sing, Unburied, Sing''

Source: The New York Times (Nov. 16, 2017) ]]> 2018-09-26 16:06:55 UTC https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286114430 Currently 66 years old. https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286114444 Born on August 10, 1952 in Tallahassee, Florida.

Source: Contemporary Black Biography (2005).]]> 2018-09-26 16:06:56 UTC https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286114444 Currently is 75 years young https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286114543 Born on July 15, 1943 in Belfast, Ireland

Source: "Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell." Encyclopedia of World Biography, Gale, 1998.]]> 2018-09-26 16:07:06 UTC https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286114543 Immigration https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286114827 Hirono immigrated from Japan to Hawaii at a young age.

Source:  "Mazie Hirono." Newsmakers, vol. 4, Gale, 2014. Biography In Context, Accessed 26 Sept. 2018. ]]> 2018-09-26 16:07:35 UTC https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286114827 Best known for her poetry and novels https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286114955 Was awarded the Pushcart Prize for her poem "Indian Boarding School" in 1983 and then won multiple awards for her novel "Love Medicine" in 1984.

Source: Newsmakers (2005)]]> 2018-09-26 16:07:50 UTC https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286114955 National Book Award for fiction https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286114958 The Round House 2012
Source: Newsmaker Biography, 2005. ]]> 2018-09-26 16:07:50 UTC https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286114958 https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286115325 Eldest of three children of Haitian immigrants

Source: Contemporary Black Biography, 2017]]> 2018-09-26 16:08:30 UTC https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286115325 First National Book Award https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286115431 In 2011 her novel Salvage the Bones won the National Book Award for fiction. 

Source: Contemporary Black Biography. 2018]]> 2018-09-26 16:08:41 UTC https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286115431 Education https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286115445 Grew up in Chicago, earned undergrad at Roosevelt University.

Earned two Ph.D.s from the University of Chicago's Graduate Library School. 

Source: Contemporary Black Biography (2005).]]> 2018-09-26 16:08:42 UTC https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286115445 Childhood https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286115583 She was born in DeLisle, Mississippi. Her father left the family when Ward was a child, leaving her mother to care for the family. 

Her mother's employer's offered to pay for her tuition at an elite private Episcopal school. She earned a master's degree in media studies and communication and a bachelor's degree in English from Standford University. 

Source: Contemporary Black Biography (2018)]]> 2018-09-26 16:08:55 UTC https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286115583 Current Occupation https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286116102 College teacher at Purdue University 

Source: The Writers Directory. 2018.]]> 2018-09-26 16:09:52 UTC https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286116102 Tyson is a leading ambassador for science education. https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286116159 Source: "Neil deGrasse Tyson." Contemporary Black Biography, vol. 65, Gale, 2008.]]> 2018-09-26 16:10:00 UTC https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286116159 Political roles https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286116353 Moved up from deputy attorney general,  ran for Hawaii House in 1980 and ran for lieutenant governor in 1994 but lost 

Source: Gale Biography in context, 2012. ]]> 2018-09-26 16:10:25 UTC https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286116353 https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286116413 At age 12, dated a boy from school who ended up betraying her, leading her to an abandoned hunting cabin in the woods where he and his friends held her against her will and sexually assaulted her. 
Source: Contemporary Black Biography, 2017]]> 2018-09-26 16:10:33 UTC https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286116413 She is the first woman to win two National Book Awards for fiction. https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286117037
Source: States New Service. (Dec. 11, 2017)]]> 2018-09-26 16:11:42 UTC https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286117037 Nationally recognized as an author https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286117275 Won the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction in 2015.

Source: New York Times (2015)

]]> 2018-09-26 16:12:07 UTC https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286117275 Education https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286117500 Master's degree in English with an emphasis in creative writing from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, followed by a doctorate in rhetoric and technical communication from Michigan Technological University in 2010.

Source: Contemporary Black Biography, 2017]]> 2018-09-26 16:12:29 UTC https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286117500 Career https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286117612 For five years beginning in 1982, she worked for the Museum of Science Industry as the library services coordinator (Contemporary Black Biography, 2005).

On Sept. 14, 2016, she was sworn in to lead the Library of Congress as the first woman and first African American. She openly challenged the USA Patriot Act (Contemporary Black Biography, 2017).]]> 2018-09-26 16:12:43 UTC https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286117612 Became a postdoctoral associate for the astrophysics department at Princeton University in 1991 https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286117848 Source: "Neil deGrasse Tyson." Contemporary Black Biography, vol. 65, Gale, 2008.]]> 2018-09-26 16:13:07 UTC https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286117848 Political goals: https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286117909 Hirono is focused on promoting Women's issues and was the first Buddhist, Asian-American Woman to be elected into the Senate.

Source: Gale Biography in Context, 2014]]> 2018-09-26 16:13:12 UTC https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286117909 Background https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286118013 She was encouraged to go to school by her father and his architecture staff at Armagh Observatory.

After earning a B.S. in physics at the University of Glasgow, she started to work on her Ph.D. at Cambridge University. She built an 81.5-megahertz radio telescope.

Source: "Susan Jocelyn Burnell." Encyclopedia of World Biography, Gale, 1998. ]]> 2018-09-26 16:13:24 UTC https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286118013 Education https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286118414 Entered Phillips Exeter Academy at age 13, an elite prep school in New Hampshire.

Source: Newsmakers. 2017.]]> 2018-09-26 16:14:04 UTC https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286118414 Sing, Unburied, Sing https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286118451 "Unlike my last novel, Sing, Unburied, Sing required a lot of research. As a child, I knew the prison existed, but I knew nothing about its past. I learned about its history when I first started writing the novel"

Source: Interview
Bostrom, Annie. "JESMYN WARD." Booklist, 15 Dec. 2017, p. 29]]> 2018-09-26 16:14:08 UTC https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286118451 Awards https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286118670 Freedom to Write Award, PEN Center USA, 2015.

Source: Contemporary Black Biography, 2017]]> 2018-09-26 16:14:30 UTC https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286118670 Works https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286119228
  • (Editor) Girl Crush: Women's Erotic Fantasies, Cleis Press, 2010.
  • Ayiti, Artistically Declined Press, 2011.
  • An Untamed State, Black Cat, 2014.
  • Bad Feminist: Essays, Harper Perennial, 2014.

    • Source: Contemporary Black Biography, 2017

    ]]>     2018-09-26 16:15:25 UTC https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286119228     Why she became a writer https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286119596 In 2000, her younger brother Joshua was killed by a drunk driver and she felt the need to write. She received a master's degree in fine arts from the University of Michigan.

    Source: Contemporary Black Biography]]>     2018-09-26 16:16:08 UTC https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286119596     Discovery https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286119676 In 1967 Burnell received the Nobel Prize in physics for her discovery of pulsars.

    Burnell surveyed a large area of the sky in history. In doing so she discovered Pulsar or previously known as "Bell's Star"

    After receiving the Novel prize, Sir Fred Hoyle argued the winning of the prize and believed it should be shared.

    "Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell." Encyclopedia of World Biography, Gale, 1998.]]>     2018-09-26 16:16:18 UTC https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286119676     Education https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286119696 Was part of Dartmouth College's first coeducational graduating class, where she got her Bachelor of Arts Degree in 1976. She later earned her Master of Arts in writing at Johns Hopkins in 1979.

    Source: Newsmakers (2005)]]>     2018-09-26 16:16:20 UTC https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286119696     Director of Hayden planetarium in 1991 https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286119749 Started in the position as an assistant astronomer. As a director employed $210 million in reconstructions.

    Source: "Neil deGrasse Tyson." Contemporary Black Biography, vol. 65, Gale, 2008.]]>     2018-09-26 16:16:25 UTC https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286119749     Has written short stories since 1970 https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286120444 Her latest being The Red Convertible: Selected and New Stories
    Source: Contemporary Authors Online, 2018.]]>     2018-09-26 16:17:42 UTC https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286120444     Strauss Living for literary excellence award https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286121517 Award-winning author Jesmyn Ward, an associate professor of English at Tulane University, has been named one of two winners of the prestigious Strauss Living for literary excellence

    Source: States News Service. (Jan. 22, 2016)]]>     2018-09-26 16:19:41 UTC https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286121517     Her latest novel has been compared to the Handmaids Tale https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286128488 She started writing the book in 2002 after the Patriot Act was signed into law.

    Source: St. Louis Dispatch (12 Nov, 2017)]]>     2018-09-26 16:31:07 UTC https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286128488     US Newsstream https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286129323 Review: 'Hunger' by Roxane Gay
    Kephart, Beth.TCA Regional News; Chicago [Chicago]03 July 2017.

    ]]>     2018-09-26 16:32:28 UTC https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286129323     Hirono has been vocal in the Kavanaugh case https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286129333 She has stated she will vote against the Supreme Court Nominee.
     Source: All Things Considered (NPR), 09/17/2018 ]]>     2018-09-26 16:32:29 UTC https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286129333     Fact 2 https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286130179 Published her first comic in November, “World of Wakanda,” a prequel to the “Black Panthers” series.

    Source: US Newsstream University Wire; Carlsbad [Carlsbad]04 Oct 2017.]]>     2018-09-26 16:33:46 UTC https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286130179     Giving Back https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286130959 Burnell recently won a Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for her work with Pulsars. 

    She has now decided to donate her $3 million winnings back in to the field to help out the younger generation. 

    Source: Jocelyn Bell Burnell to give away $3 million physics prize, 2018.]]>     2018-09-26 16:34:50 UTC https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286130959     New Novel https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286130999 Her new novel "Sing, Unburied, Sing" is about an African-American family challenged with dissolution. The book is based on a car trip to prison to pick up the white father. 

    Source: Charles, Ron. Washington Post Aug. 29, 2017]]>     2018-09-26 16:34:53 UTC https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286130999     Fact 1 https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286131184 Gay recently became the first black woman to write for Marvel Comics.

    Source: US Newsstream Spata, Christopher.Tampa Bay Times (Online), Tampa Bay: Times Publishing Company. Aug 8, 2018]]>     2018-09-26 16:35:06 UTC https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286131184     https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286131365 CEO of Enoch Pratt Free Library. (Carla Hayden: My Desk, My Life, Baltimore Sun, 2010.)]]> 2018-09-26 16:35:21 UTC https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286131365 1967 Nobel Work https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286131860 Bell Burnell's work was originally discredited when she wasn't given the Nobel Prize in 1974 and her male colleagues were.

    Source: Woman behind 1967 Nobel work finally recognized as top scientist with breakthrough prize, awarded $3 million. USA Today]]>     2018-09-26 16:36:08 UTC https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286131860     Best place to stargaze https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286132927 The summit of Mauna Kea, in Hawaii, 14,000 feet up in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. The most powerful optical telescopes in the world are there. ]]> 2018-09-26 16:37:56 UTC https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286132927 In reference to Kavanaugh https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286133359  "I put his denial in the context of everything that I know about him in terms of how he approaches cases."  
    Source: The Wall Street Journal, Sept. 26, 2018. ]]>     2018-09-26 16:38:42 UTC https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286133359     Food to eat on voyage to Mars https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286133764  pepperoni pizza and a strawberry malted milkshake ]]> 2018-09-26 16:39:09 UTC https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286133764 News https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286133956 Moderated a conversation with former U.S. First Lady Michelle in June of 2018 during the Opening General Session of the 2018 ALA Annual Conference & Exhibition (Targeted News Service, 2018).]]> 2018-09-26 16:39:25 UTC https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286133956 Recent works https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286134959 wrote a slim book on "Astrophysics for People in a Hurry"]]> 2018-09-26 16:40:57 UTC https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286134959 Library Stats https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286140793 There are more public school librarians than any other type with 78,570. and public libraries only have 46,808. Academic libraries have 26,606 as of 2015.(Libraries in the U.S., 2016).]]> 2018-09-26 16:50:10 UTC https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286140793 Female Representatives in the U.S. https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286140823 As of 2017, women made up only 21% of Representatives in the Senate.

    Source: Pew Research Center, 2018


    ]]>     2018-09-26 16:50:14 UTC https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286140823     https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286142893 In 1976, there was an equal number of male and female Native Americans enrolled in undergraduate colleges, but by 2010 there is a 35,000 difference of  male and females.

    Source: NCES, Digest of Education Statistics (2017)]]>     2018-09-26 16:53:36 UTC https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286142893     Post-baccalaureate https://padlet.com/hagman/jour2311hill/wish/286143539 6,000 Native American graduated in 1980 compared to the 1,352,400 whites.

    Source: NCES, Digest of Education Statistics 2017

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