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Will 2017 Be a Happy New Year For HBCUs? A Look at FAITH in HBCUs.

Happy New Year. This New year's OGTV Feature story is packed with 2016 reminders that will in some measure, carry into 2017. Of the national priorities facing America, from climate change, to national security, defeating our enemies, expanding mass transportation, and infrastructure, to immigration, and healthcare, the one question that remains preeminent, and at the front door of 2017 is whether or not our nation will advance a diverse 21st century workforce as a result of the role Historically Black Colleges and universities play in preparing our nation's diverse workforce.

Just a few short days after the White House HBCU Conference in October 2016, OGTV challenged America by asking the question: WHERE IS YOUR FAITH IN HBCUs?

On January 1, 2017, OGTV asks the second question of a three part series; Will 2017 Be a Happy New Year for HBCU's? In order to best appreciate the question we raise, one should have an understanding of the role that the Faith based community has played in the establishment of Historically Black Colleges and universities in the late 1800's. A land-grant university (also called land-grant college or land-grant institution) is an institution of higher education in the United States designated by a state to receive the benefits of the Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890. After the Civil War, African American education blossomed. Black ministers and white philanthropists established schools all across the South to educate freed slaves. These schools, more than 100 of which are still open today, became known as Historically Black Colleges and Universities, or better known as HBCUs. It was leadership from the Faith based community that answered the call, and the question in the late 1862-Where is Your FAITH in HBCUs?

National HBCU Week Conference

The Annual National Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) Week Conference is planned under the leadership of the White House Initiative on HBCUs and with input from the President's Board of Advisors on HBCUs and its conference sponsors. It provides a forum to exchange information and share innovations among and between institutions. Stakeholders, which include: federal agencies, private sector companies and philanthropic organizations provide an overview of successful engagements that if replicated could improve instruction, degree completion and the understanding of federal policies that shape and support higher education. OGTV will be onsite capturing the highlights of the White House HBCU Conference 2016, and will be discussing with you this week, our assessment of the pathway for success and the historic and current day challenges facing Historically Black Colleges.

"What Works" at HBCU's? Economic Impact of the Nation's Historically Black Colleges and Universities

Since 2010, OGTV has travelled the country from as far east as Baltimore's Morgan State, UDC, locally, and as far south as Morehouse Medical, Superman, and North Carolina A&T, to the Virgin Islands to film projects with the University of Virgin Islands at their Health Disparities Conference. It is our collection of experiences that gives our data scientists, valuable proof source that HBCUs are not only rich with history, but have a sizably significant impact on the nation's economic future. In 2012, Chancellor Harold Martin of NCA&T and OGTV had a candid conversation on the challenges facing HBCU.

For more than a century, HBCUs have been the nation's top incubator of STEM professionals of African descent. According to a report by the Institute for Education Sciences authored in 2006, the purpose of the study was to document the economic role of the nation's historically black colleges and universities by estimating the short-term economic impact that each of these institutions has on their local communities. In this study, short-term economic impact was defined as the change in overall economic activity in the institutions's community that is associated with four important categories of college/university-related expenditures, salaries, other institutional expenditures, and the expenditures of undergraduate and separately, graduate and professional students attending the institution. The IMPLAN (Impact Analysis for Planning) Professional Version 2.0 modeling system was used to build regional models for each of the 101 HBCUs in the 50 states and the District of Columbia and to calculate multipliers for estimating the HBCUs impact in terms of output, value-added, labor income, and employment. These multipliers were applied to each institution's salary, staff, enrollment and expenditure data from the 2001 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) and data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Expenditure Survey.

The HBCU STORY MUST BE TOLD

OGTV looks forward to reporting out both on the IES study of 2006, evaluating this year's progress and current data challenges and coming back to you with more on What Works for HBCUs in STEM Diversity. So, of course, keep it locked as we engage, educate and empower you to know more about HBCU's and what these institutions mean to the American Economy.

To contribute to this story, email us at kmoore@opengovtv.com and to be interviewed for our series on HBCU's call us at 202-469-3423. www.openovtv.com

A STEM Diversity Success Story That Must Be Told; Or I Would Not Be....... My Brother's Keeper

On September 9, 2014, OGTV interviewed Mr. Julian Grant, an INROADS Alum.   Julian in Birmingham Alabama. The partnership commitment to My Brother's Keeper was never more evident that day from then two sitting Secretaries, from Businesses, foundations, faith leaders, community leaders, parents, and educators who assembled to express their intentions to help young men and ladies of color get a strong start in school and life by connecting them to mentoring, support networks, and specialized skills they need to go to college, find a good job, and work their way up into middle class and beyond. On September 20, 2016, we discovered from Linked In that the same Julian Grant interviewed by OGTV in 2014, is now the newly elected President of the National Society of Black Engineers, better known as NSBE. After just two short years, OGTV takes pride today in congratulating Julian. If our assessment is correct from the interview with Julian two years ago, the NSBE organization will be well served under Julian's leadership.

Julian Grant is an Example of "What Works" In STEM.

Two days after the historic Congressional Black Caucus week, and the week OGTV launches a Beta version of the new "What Works" in STEM website. The new data analytic driven digital media based platform will help industry, government, and academia identify "What Works" to increase the number of diverse students around the country in science, technology, engineering, and math. And what makes this evidenced based approach to examining STEM programs so timely is the use of scientific research, and data analytics to help determine what methods, what best practices bring about the best return on investments for public dollar investments spent on efforts to broaden the participation of diverse communities in STEM. OGTV will capture these results on film with the goal to bring "What Works" production results into the classroom. However, in the case of Julian Grant, some calculations do not require such an extensive research based examination to what works to best inspire and ensure STEM education success. Listen to the video of the Julian interview, and you too will be able to assess some of the characteristics associated with success. "I saw success and aspirations in Julian's eyes at the interview" says, OGTV Founder. We would venture to say that many of the students we met that historic day in Alabama at Phillips Academy have their own success stories. And it is stories like these that seem to make "What Works" easy to follow.

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The select students of this forum were asked by Secretary Duncan "If they could speak directly to President Obama, what would they tell him?" Several echoed the recommendation to implement policies that provide students more peer support, better funding for nonprofits that promote minority education, and equal access to technology for all students. 

To share your My Brother's Keeper story email us at kmoore@opengovtv.com and keep it Locked@ www.opengovtv.com

The Power of Media

Today's OGTV feature article gives our audiences a rear view mirror into a troubling past of sacrifice, slavery, and suffrage, a peak into the empowering present, and the contributions made to create an unprecedented opportunity to change the future course of history and society's appreciation for cultural diversity. On September 14, 2016, history was made. On September 24th, when the National Museum of African American History and Culture opens to the public, the future of our nation, and our world's understanding of African American history will ignite and inspire new approaches to how cultural diversity is achieved institution by institution, organization, by organization, and community by community. The national impact could become a global template for world peace.

On September 14th, OGTV (www.opengovtv.com) joined media from all over the world to partake in an exclusive day-long tour of the most impressive collection of art, artifacts, culinary cuisine, and musical extravaganza the world will ever see. This article was crafted for the sole intent to help prepare the world for what they are about to witness at the new Museum. Participating in the exclusive Media day, confirmed to me, how important and influential media is in telling the important story of American history and culture. Listening to journalists from Africa, France, Germany, and television stations around the country, validated for me the importance of engaging media. As I rode the escalator from the ground of the museum floor that appeared to be shaped like a slave ship, but in reality, was the famous train, an eery range of emotions came over me as I watched others experience their own personal saga of interpretation.

"I realized after several hours of the Museum tour that the National Museum of African American History and Culture will become the most prolific modern day voice for Black history and African American culture's past, present, and future". "No organization or Diversity and Inclusion discussions or strategies can ever be complete, sufficiently correct, or accurately presented without experiencing this national treasure, says Keith Moore, Founder of OGTV".

Dr. David J. Skorton is the 13th Secretary of the Smithsonian. As Secretary, Skorton oversees 19 museums and galleries, 20 libraries, the National Zoo and numerous research centers, including the Smithsonian Astrophysics Observatory, the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center. He is responsible for an annual budget of $1.3 billion, 6,500 employees, and 6,300 volunteers.

The Facts About Our History and Culture

The Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture will open on the National Mall Sept. 24, but the effort to build the museum began more than 100 years ago. This exhibit, "A Century in the Making," explores the journey toward fulfillment of this long-held dream, providing an overview of the century-long struggle that began in 1915 and its culminating achievements. Opening the museum has involved the efforts of presidents and members of Congress, curators and architects, art collectors and army veterans, celebrities and ordinary citizens. Visitors will learn the inspiration behind the museum's architectural building design and the significance of the museum's unique location on the National Mall, at the center of Washington's historic core. Curators: Joanne Hyppolite and Michelle Wilkinson.

Thanks to the Smithsonian management and public relations team, OGTV is able to present to our listening audience, the Facts: America salutes the Smithsonian leadership for bringing this 100 year old project across the finish line, and OGTV appreciates Smithsonian Institute's contribution to this article.

Slavery and Freedom

As the centerpiece of the museum, this exhibition explores the complex story of slavery and freedom, a story standing at the core of our national experience. Beginning in the 15th century with the transatlantic slave trade, through the Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation, the exhibition uses personal stories to explore the economic and political legacies of slavery for all Americans. Priceless objects featured include Harriett Tubman's shawl and hymn book (c. 1876); Nat Turner's bible (1830s); shackles used for an enslaved child; a slave cabin from Edisto Island, S.C.; a pocket copy of the Emancipation Proclamation read from by soldiers bringing news of freedom to the U.S. Colored Troops; and freedom papers (c. 1852) carried by a former slave, Joseph Trammell. Curator: Nancy Bercaw.

Defending Freedom, Defining Freedom: Era of Segregation 1876–1968

This exhibition takes visitors from the end of Reconstruction through the civil rights movement of the 1960s. It is rich with history and artifacts that capture the major aspects of the ongoing struggle by the nation in general and African Americans in particular to define and make real the meaning of freedom. The exhibition will illustrate how African Americans not only survived the challenges set before them, but crafted an important role for themselves in the nation.

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Emmett Till's casket; a dress made by Rosa Parks; a prison tower from the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola; a segregated Southern Railway rail car from the Jim Crow era; the Greensboro, N.C., Woolworth's lunch-counter stools; and a house (c. 1874) built, owned and lived in by freed slaves in Maryland. Curator: Spencer Crew

A Changing America: 1968 and Beyond

This section illustrates the impact of African Americans on life in the United States—social, economic, political and cultural—from the death of Martin Luther King Jr. to the second election of President Barack Obama. Subjects include the Black Arts Movement, hip-hop, the Black Panthers, the rise of the black middle class and, more recently, the #BlackLivesMatter movement. This exhibition encompasses several sections focusing on Black Power era of the 1960s and '70s, Black Studies at universities, racial dynamics in cities and suburbs and the changing role of the black middle class. The year 1968 is seen as a turning point in the modern struggle for freedom and equality with artifacts such as painted plywood panels from Resurrection City, a "Huey Newton, Minister of Defense" poster and handmade banners from the 2008 presidential election. Curators: William Pretzer and Michelle Wilkinson

Power of Place

This exhibition explores the idea of place and region as a crucial component of the African American experience through an interactive multimedia area called the Hometown Hub, where visitors will engage with stories about migration and other themes. Surrounding the hub will be 10 case studies of places in the U.S. illustrating the distinct flavor and experience of each. These place studies will contain a mix of diverse stories—well known and unknown; mainstream and edgy; celebratory and challenging. These include: Chicago (black urban life and home of the Chicago Defender newspaper; Oak Bluffs (leisure in Martha's Vineyard, Mass.); Tulsa, Okla. (Black Wall Street, the story of the riot and rebirth); South Carolina's low country (a story of life in the rice fields); Greenville, Miss. (images of segregated Mississippi through the lens of a photo studio); and Bronx, N.Y. (a story about the birth of hip-hop). Curator: Paul Gardullo

Making a Way Out of No Way

The stories in this gallery show the ways in which African Americans created possibilities in a world that denied them opportunities. These stories reflect the perseverance, resourcefulness and resilience required by African Americans to survive and thrive in America. Each story presents concrete actions and choices that people made to contest the racial status quo in America, challenging visitors to reconsider the notion of freedom as granted to African Americans and to see freedom, along with its privileges and responsibilities, as earned by African Americans. The three main sections are: an introductory space with five iconic artifacts complemented by multimedia components; the institutional pillars of African American life—education, religion, business, organizations and the press; and a tradition of activism. Among the featured stories will be a Rosenwald School in South Carolina, the First A.M.E. Church in Los Angeles and Mary McLeod Bethune and the National Council of Negro Women in Washington, D.C. Curators: Michèle Gates Moresi and Kathleen Kendrick

Sports Gallery

This exhibition will look at the contributions of athletes on and off the field. Because sports were among the first and most high-profile organizations to accept African Americans on relative terms of SI-240-2016 2 equality, sports have a unique role in American culture. Types of artifacts on display will include sports equipment; awards, trophies and photos; training logs and playbooks; and posters and flyers. A grip bag and uneven-bar grips used by African American gymnast Gabby Douglas in the 2012 Olympics, a white terrycloth robe worn by Muhammad Ali and the track shoes and gold medals of Carl Lewis are among the artifacts in the museum's sports collection. Curator: Damion Thomas. To contribute to the heroism of victory, OGTV West Coast produced a tribute to our Olympians who too will be able to enjoy their place and space in the new museum.

Military History Gallery

The military gallery exhibition will convey a sense of appreciation and respect for the military service of African Americans from the American Revolution to the current war on terrorism. It establishes an understanding that the African American military experience shapes opportunities for the greater community and has profoundly shaped the nation. This exhibition will help visitors understand the African American military experience in three areas: "Struggle for Freedom" focusing on the American Revolution, the War of 1812 and the Civil War; "Segregated Military," about the Indian Wars, Spanish-American War and World Wars I and II; and "Stirrings of Change to a Colorblind Military," examining the Korean and Vietnam wars and today's war on terrorism. Artifacts include Civil War badges, weapons and photographs, Flag of the 9th Regiment U.S. Colored Volunteers, a WWI Croix de Guerre medal awarded to U.S. soldier Lawrence McVey and various Tuskegee Airmen materials. Guest Curator: Krewasky Salter.

Culture Galleries (fourth floor)

Musical Crossroads

This exhibition tells the story of African American music from the arrival of the first Africans to today's hip-hop. Through its content, the exhibition will be the space where history and culture intermingle and where music serves as the crossroads between musical traditions and stories of cultural and social development. The gallery is organized through stories of musical genres and themes rather than chronologically, covering classical, sacred, rock 'n' roll, hip-hop and more.

Among the artifacts in this sound-filled area will be Marian Anderson's outfit from her 1939 concert at the Lincoln Memorial and a neon sign from Minton's Playhouse (1938) in Harlem, known as the birthplace of bebop where Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie performed at Monday-night jam sessions. Thomas Dorsey (known as the father of gospel) will be represented by the piano and bench he used at the Pilgrim Baptist Church in Chicago, where he served as music director for 40 years. Mahalia Jackson, Aretha Franklin and The Staples Singers are among those who sang at the church. From the modern era, the exhibition will feature Chuck Berry's red Cadillac and Public Enemy, the group that voiced the tenets of black pride and racial awareness. Curator: Dwandalyn Reece

Cultural Expressions

This exhibition is an introduction to the concept of African American and African diaspora culture. It examines style (identity, political expression and attitudes expressed in clothing, dress, hair and jewelry), food and foodways, artistry and creativity through craftsmanship, social dance and gesture, and language. Curator: Joanne Hyppolite

Visual Arts Gallery

This art exhibition will illustrate the critical role that African American artists played in shaping the history of American art. It will feature seven thematic sections and one changing exhibition gallery. Works will include paintings, sculpture, works on paper, art installations, mixed media, photography SI-240-2016 3 and digital media. The history and relevance of each work will be available to visitors through a multimedia platform. Curators: Tuliza Fleming and Jacquelyn Serwer.

Taking the Stage

This exhibition will explore the history of African Americans in theater, film and television in order to celebrate their creative achievements, demonstrate their cultural impact and illuminate their struggles for equal representation on the stage of American entertainment. Visitors will see how African Americans transformed the ways they are represented onstage by challenging racial discrimination and stereotypes and striving to produce more positive, authentic and diverse images of African American identity and experience. Together these stories will suggest how African American performing artists also paved the way for broader social change. Stories include Paul Robeson's role in Othello, Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf and the Black Stuntmen's Association in Hollywood. Curator: Kathleen Kendrick.

OGTV Media Moves Black History "EveryDay"

OGTV- www.opengovtv.com where Black History Month is "EveryDay" in Honor of STEM Diversity. 202-469-3423.

The Innovator With A Purpose; A Tribute to Larry Bock

Larry Bock was an inspiration to me. And like other leaders I have personally followed, it was a result of my first interaction with Larry Bock in 2012 that I now understand why Larry will be known throughout the scientific and business community as a legend.  Larry's accomplishments were such that I became drawn into what inspired this man to start over 40 companies, and to use his biomedical science research background to become a serial, ultra successful entrepreneur.  And the more I learned about Larry's background, the more I appreciated his achievements against the odds of his challenges, that most would call a disability.  Over the past four years, I witnessed the building of his personal brand that defied the term disability, and memorialized his legacy as The Innovator with a Purpose.

I met Larry via telephone in 2012 before the first USA Science & Engineering Festival in Washington DC. And after our brief call, we would periodically text each other. Each text that came from Larry, was an encouragement hoping that I would get closer to scheduling the long awaited interview with Larry.  An innovator starting up 40 companies, essentially a self made billionaire, was a real inspiration to a serial entrepreneur like myself who relishes in the joy and pain of "making payroll," and the highs and the lows of launching opportunities for job creation and wealth creation.   One of the last text messages that I received from Larry back in February 2015 was an introduction to Marc Schulman, Larry's appointed Executive Director of the USA Festival, and like all information shared by Larry, I would, with a deliberate intent, follow up.  The results of our followup led to our creation of "What Works" in STEM Education, and a website that is underway to help find out "What Works."  Our goal is to ensure that best practices are replicated, and the most effective STEM educational experiences, are highlighted in order to help the nation produce more successful STEM prepared students, parents, and professionals, especially in communities of color. Teamed with The 100 Black Men of Greater Washington DC, The USA Science & Engineering Festival set out to find out if the 350,000 plus in attendees at the Festival that Larry Bock Founded "Worked" to inspire students to become STEM professionals, teachers to become more effective at teaching STEM, and parents to be more engaged in the life of their child's success.

It is our honor to share with our audience, excerpts from the Official Memorial Statement the USASEF used to dedicate a tribute to Larry's life. As for true legends, as Maya Angelou has said so poetically, "It's not what you say, but it's what you do, and how you make me feel that I remember." This to me, transcends truth to power and reflects Larry's accomplishments.  The very concept of the Festival has inspired me to believe that we as a media outlet, can engage, educate, and empower others to want to become STEM contributors to our economy, and to our world.  The Festival's desire to find out "What Works' by analyzing, and predicting outcomes that could help to revolutionize a standard, and bring forth evidence that Larry's concept of the Festival "Works."

"May this tribute to Larry Bock also be a reminder that it is people like Larry who may have had just a little (if not a lot) to do with young peoples, educators, and parent's interest in science, proficiency in technology, curiosity about engineering, and a love for math". Keith Moore-OGTV Founder. 

Committed to Ventures, Access To Capital, and Commercialization

It should also be noted that my quest to follow Larry led me to travel to the Boston Museum of Science, a few weeks ago, as Larry was a supporter of this venture fund community.  Not knowing anyone personally before attending, I met some amazing people who cared about community, and know how to raise capitol to grow companies, and Move America Forward, and so, our quest and our Work continues...thanks to some wonderful linkages from the Boston event.
It is our hope that OGTV will be able to work with organizations like Xconomy to honor Larry Bock, the Innovator With a Purpose, and establish solid grounds of common interest to stir innovation in America, and help America Move Forward. http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2016/06/24/influx-slides/  

More on The Life of Larry Bock (Excerpts from Marc Schulman-USASEF Executive Director on official Larry Bock Memorial Statement)

Larry Bock was the Founder and Principal of Science Spark, a 501(c)3 non-profit corporation, and was the founder of the USA Science & Engineering Festival which has attracted millions of participants after only 4 festivals. In 2008, Larry launched the San Diego Science Festival to educate and inspire our next generation to pursue STEM careers. Today, that original vision has grown into the nation's largest science festival in Washington, D.C., and an organization with a global impact on STEM education—a testimony to Larry's enduring impact on the future of discovery and innovation!

Larry was actively involved in Science Spark and the Festival until the very end, and his vision, dedication, and mostly his humor and support of this work, will be sincerely missed. We extend our deepest condolences to his beloved family – his wife, Diane, and his daughters, Tasha and Quincy (and Quincy's husband, John) and his service dog, Tripp. Larry's blindness was not normally evident to the people he worked with.  The pride that Larry took in his many professional achievements was surpassed only by his pride in his two daughters, the ultimate expression of his joie de vivre. The "Festival Family" the Bock's have created owes a lifetime of gratitude for the millions of young students their festival has inspired.  In addition to his work with Science Spark, Larry was a serial entrepreneur who founded, co-founded or financed the early stage growth of 40 companies from inception to an aggregate market capitalization of $70 Billion. Mr. Bock was a General Partner of CW Ventures, a 100M life sciences venture capital fund, and a Special Limited Partner to Lux Capital, a 100M nanotechnology-focused venture capital fund. Prior to that, he spent nine years as a partner at Avalon Ventures with his friend, Kevin Kinsella. He was a Member of the Board of Directors of FEI Corporation (NASDAQ: FEIC), the leading supplier of tools for nanotechnology research.

Mr. Bock started his career as a Researcher in the early days at Genentech, Inc. in the field of infectious diseases, where he was on the team that received the AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Prize for demonstrating the world's first recombinant DNA vaccine. His most recent venture, Aira, a visual services company for the blind in which he co-founded. He was a Venture Capital Associate with Fairfield Ventures (now Oxford Bioventures)

He has received several awards and honors. Mr. Bock was selected as by the US Commission for UNESCO as the nominee representing the United States of America in the international competition for the 2011 Kalinga Prize for the Popularization of Science. He was a recipient of the Hoyt S. Vandenberg Prize from the Air Force Association for the best STEM Education Program and also of the 2014 Viktor Hamburger Outstanding Educator Prize of the Society of Developmental Biology. He was selected by Venture Capital Journal as one of the "Ten Most Influential Venture Capitalists," by Red Herring as one of the "Top Ten Innovators," by Forbes-Wolfe NanoReport as the "Number One Powerbroker in Nanotechnology," by Ernst & Young as a Finalist for "Entrepreneur of the Year," and by Small Times as "Innovator of the Year" and "Top 3 Business Leaders of the Year." He received the Einstein Award by the Jerusalem Foundation for lifetime contributions in the field of life sciences. He was one of a dozen individuals invited to the signing of the 3.7B 21st Century Nanotechnology Act by President George Bush in the Oval Office.

Mr. Bock was the Founder and Initial CEO of Neurocrine Biosciences (NASDAQ: NBIX – neuroimmunology), Nanosys Inc., Pharmacopeia (NASDAQ: PCOP - combinatorial chemistry (which spun off Accelrys (NASDAQ: ACCL – computer-aided-drug and material discovery)), GenPharm International (Private – transgenic animals, acquired by Medarex for 100M and also spun off Pharming Group N.V.), Caliper Technologies (NASDAQ: CALP – lab-on-a-chip and subsequently acquired by Perkin Elmer for $650 Million), Illumina Technologies (NASDAQ: ILMN – human genotyping), IDUN Pharmaceuticals (Private – apoptosis, acquired by Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) for 250M)) Metra Biosystems (NASDAQ: MTRA – musculoskeletal disease diagnosis, merged with Quidel (NASDAQ: QDEL)), and FASTTRACK Systems (Private – accelerated clinical drug development). Mr. Bock was a co-founder of Argonaut Technologies (NASDAQ: AGNT – automated chemistry merged with Biotope (NASDAQ: BIOT)), ARIAD Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: ARIA – intra cellular signal transduction), Athena Neurosciences (NASDAQ: ATHN – molecular neurobiology, acquired by Elan Pharmaceuticals (NYSE: ELN) for 700M)), Vertex Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: VRTX – rational drug design), and Onyx Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: ONXX – molecular oncology). He also helped found and was previously on the Scientific Advisory Board of Conforma Therapeutics (Private – cellular chaperones – acquired by Pfizer for 250M).

Mr Bock was a seed stage investor in Acceleron Pharma (Private – metabolic and musculoskeletal diseases), Aurora Biosciences (NASDAQ: ABSC – high throughput drug discovery, acquired by Vertex Pharmaceuticals for 650M), Cambrios (Priviae – biology directed electronic assembly), River Medical (Private – drug delivery, purchased IVAC from Eli Lily in an LBO and did a 700M merger with IMED to form Alaris Medical (NASDAQ: AMI – medical devices)), Genocea Biosciences (Private – vaccine development) Plexikon Pharmaceuticals (Private – scaffold based drug design which was acquired by Daiihi Sankyo for $800 M) Poland Partners (Private - a 62.5M venture capital fund investing in Central Europe), Sequana Therapeutics (NASDAQ: SQNA - genomics, merged with Arris Pharmaceuticals to form AXYS Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: AXPH) and subsequently acquired by Celera Genomics (NASDAQ: CRA)), Sirtris Pharmaceuticals (Private – gene regulation), Software Transformation (Private – object based software programming, acquired by Novell (NASDAQ: NOVL) for 25M), Surface Logix (Private – nano- imprint lithography), and Talarian (NASDAQ: TALR – real time, high content information processing over distributed networks merged with TIBCO (NASDAQ: TIBX)). He is also was previously on the Scientific Advisory Board of Protia L.L.C.

Larry was also an early stage venture investor in Biosym Technologies (Private – computer-aided-drug discovery – acquired by Corning (NYSE: GLW) for $250M. Gen- Probe (NASDAQ: GNPR – DNA diagnostics, acquired by Chugai Pharmaceuticals for 180M), Gensia Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: GNSA – cardiovascular drugs, merged with Sicor to become Gensia-Sicor and subsequently acquired by TEVA Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: TEVA)), IDEC Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: IDEC – monoclonal antibody therapy, merged with Biogen to become Biogen Idec (NASDAQ: BIIB)), Oclassen Pharmaceuticals (Private - dermatology, acquired by Watson Pharmaceuticals (NYSE: WPI) for 180M), and Viagene (Private – gene therapy, acquired by Chiron Corporation for 100M).

OGTV Asks That You Step In The Ring, and Do The Right Thing in 2016, and support the work of innovation, and the legacy of Larry Bock.  Thank you Marc Schulman.  You have stepped into some very large shoes.  As author of Steppin In The Ring, know that you know that OGTV and Our Team Approach, will be there to support you, the USASEF Team, and collaboratively we will find out "What Works" in STEM Education. 

OpenGovTV.com is multi-platform web site featuring resources, news, experts on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) and analysis of the global impact on education, politics, and business. OGTV possesses the technical know-how, content expertise to deliver customized solutions for minority institutions (HBCU's) (MSI). OGTV's media marketing firm is a leader in connecting enterprising programs and entrepreneurs to federal programs on STEM.

Diversity Is, What Diversity Does

 Diversity Is, What Diversity Does.  As a part of our declaration that Black History is "EveryDay" in Honor of STEM Diversity, there is a sense of liberation associated with sharing with you today's OGTV Feature story.   Today's video story will be brief, but for purposes of introduction, OGTV will produce a month long series entitled Diversity Is, What Diversity Does.  This concept of Diversity Is, What Diversity Does became a very powerful concept to me, and so this week, we want to engage, and hopefully educate, with an interest in empowering all races, diverse view points, cultures, faiths, and political persuasions around Diversity. This story should remind us that we must reflect on what we are doing, and not simply what we are saying when it comes to Diversity.  We start off with a definition of Diversity. We chose to establish what we believe is a genuine definition of Diversity by sharing with you a program called the Summer Diversity Internships and Objectives Program.

Summer Diversity Internships and Objectives Program

On May 18th, 1999, a diverse group of concerned students engaged in a sit-in at the University of Oregon's Johnson Hall to address the campus climate regarding issues of diversity, hate speech and hate crimes, safety and inclusion. Though the incident was sparked by a specific classroom incident involving racial stereotyping and threats of sexual violence, students recognize that campus incidences of racism, sexism, homophobia, and other forms of oppression are neither isolated note rare. The students organized a substantive list of both proactive and reactive goals and demands in an attempt to ensure the safety of all students on campus and to promote a stronger campus climate embracing diversity and inclusion at the Univ. of Oregon. (To view the May 18th, 1999 list of goals and demands click here.) In ensuing meetings, the University of Oregon Administration, concerned faculty and staff, and a broad group of students agreed to further research and collaborate on the proposed diversity list of goals and demands (here on out, dubbed "objectives").

Ten student interns (chosen by a committee of student, staff, and administrative representatives) were hired by the University to continue work on these objectives over the summer '99. A Steering Committee was also formed of which includes a broad spectrum of University faculty, staff, administrators, and students. The Steering Committee serves as a mechanism to offer some guidance to the summer diversity interns and research in a manner which will attribute to the overall success of the University diversity objectives. (For more information on the Steering Committee click here.)

An Interview with Deputy Chief Andy Anderson

To our Team at OGTV, we believe that this amazing story, who back in 1999 took on a learning role, and then that role would mature into a leadership role is the type of visible manifestation of what we have sought to identify in our Black History Month is "EveryDay" in honor of STEM Diversity campaign. Our first interviews have led us into the offices of the Central Intelligence Agency, more publicly known as the (CIA). We are introduced to an African American first generation college student turned military who went into the Air force, and retired only to come into the CIA out of a sheer will to continue servicing his country, oddly enough on the day after the infamous 9-11. While we only touch upon the introduction of Deputy Chief of Staff Associate Directorate of Military Affairs for the Central Intelligence Agency, Andy Anderson and our interview with him was inspiring, and demonstrated the roots of commitment to cause, country, and a continued thirst to carry out the true definition of freedom. We trust that you will, after reading this story, Keep it Locked 365 @ www.opengovtv.com, become curious about looking at what Diversity does, and less about what is said about Diversity. OGTV will provide a weekly update on this, and other powerfully inspiring stories in hopes of giving examples of what Diversity does, what Diversity looks like, and how Diversity and Inclusion impacts, and encourages positively to inspire best practices. And if any of our Linked In readers ask the sage question of: What does this Diversity story have to do with STEM.  Keith Moore, OGTV Founder says simply, there is No Science WITHOUT Diversity. 

OGTV thanks the students of 1999 at Oregon State and the University for its support, tolerance and hopeful growth they experienced as an institution as a result of this bold project. OGTV also thanks our Mike McCaskill, an OGTV West Coast affiliate at AV Visual Affairs.  Keep it Locked 365 @ www.opengovtv.com and send us your STEM Diversity story to kmoore@opengovtv.com  

Another STEM Connection to Diversity in Aviation

Just when we thought that it could not get any more exciting than to launch our "What Works" in STEM Education and Diversity project in partnership with the USA Science & Engineering Festival this past weekend, OGTV has been invited to help SAFEE Flight expand its presence in South Florida and now, nation-wide.  We are not only proud of being introduced to yet another organization that is fully engaged, and committed to the work to ensure that USA increases the number of students who engage in successful STEM careers, but in the case of Operation SAFEE Flight, we salute an organization who is paying special attention to engaging, educating, and empowering young underserved, and under represented students to the world of STEM in Aviation.  

STEM, Diversity, and Aviation

A COMMUNITY APPROACH TO STEM SUCCESS

What continues to impress us at OGTV about SAFEE Flight, is the community engagement, and the growing number of stakeholders from industry, government, academia, for their collective commitment to develop and expose youth in South Florida to STEM in Aviation.  Imagine if we could create a national movement to build HUBS and Spokes to broaden participation  all across America, and then to follow these students, schools, and parents to  measure the success of each of these programs.  We have seen from the recent USA Science & Engineering Festival, what success in STEM Diversity can look like.  So with the SAFEE Flight Operation, we're set for take off, and we look forward to sharing with the world, A Community Approach to STEM, Diversity and Success in Aviation.

Congratulations on your 5th Annual South Florida Air Expo April 22-24th   

WHAT: Operation SAFEE (South Florida Aviators Fly-in Educational Expo) Flight will conduct the fifth annual South Florida Air Expo and Fly-In, featuring an intercollegiate flying competition (Touch and Go or TAG) between 25-40 pilots in two-person aircrafts from Miami-Dade College, Broward College, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Florida Memorial University and commercial flight schools. The event also includes hands-on flight learning simulators, discovery flights and interaction with leaders in the aviation and aerospace industries. There will also be a drone exhibition, demonstration and safety briefing, a kid's zone and a career/job fair.

WHEN: Saturday, April 23, 2016 from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. The Air Expo is open to the public and admission is free.

WHERE: Orion Jet Center, 14980 NW 44 Ct., Miami-Opa-locka Executive Airport. The drone exhibition will be held at the Signature Flight Support hangar at 15001 NW 42nd Avenue, in hanger 51 on the same airport.

WHO: TAG competition participants, Boys and Girls Scouts, Civil Air Patrol Squadrons and community organizations will attend.

About Operation SAFEE Flight - Operation SAFEE Flight is an annual two-day South Florida Aviation & Aerospace Expo and Fly-In event at Miami-Opa-locka Executive Airport. This event offers participants the opportunity to become fully immersed in the aviation experience with hands-on flight learning simulators, discovery flights and interaction with leaders in the South Florida aviation industry and community leaders. The event is coordinated by the FAA, the United States Coast Guard (USCG), aviation professionals and enthusiasts.  For additional event details visit www.SFLairExpo.com, and to become a sponsor of this years series of SAFEE events throughout the summer, email kmoore@opengovtv.com to receive our sponsorship package. 

EDITOR'S NOTE: TAG intercollegiate flying competition and the discovery flights will begin at 8 a.m. on Saturday, April 23. Media outlets covering the TAG competition need to check in at the TAG table located on the southwest corner of the Orion building. There will be a bus to take media to the competition location. To join our "What Works" campaign to measure "What Works" email us at kmoore@opengovtv.com

Don't Just Talk About It-Be About It-NIH is Hiring

NIMHD is hiring a Scientific Director to lead Division of Intramural Research. Review begins July 1, 2016

NIH Searching For Talented Men and Women

NIMHD is seeking an exceptional and visionary leader for the position of Scientific Director of its Division of Intramural Research (DIR). The mission of NIMHD is to lead scientific research to improve minority health, reduce health disparities and promote health equity.

NIMHD DIR will focus on population health with an emphasis on social, behavioral, and clinical research while taking advantage of the robust basic science environment at NIH. The ultimate goal of the intramural research program is to address a wide array of health problems that disproportionately affect racial and ethnic groups as well as other health disparity populations. More specifically, NIMHD seeks to define how the intersection of biological, social, behavioral and environmental health determinants leads to disparities in clinical outcomes and provides insights to better targeted interventions that will reduce health disparities and improve the quality and length of life for all populations.

Qualifications: Applicants must have earned a M.D., Ph.D., or equivalent degree and exhibit exceptional leadership ability in managing research programs focused on minority health and health disparities. The successful candidate will possess the training and experience to lead a multidisciplinary team in the development of scientific discovery and innovation in our understanding of diseases that disproportionately affect the health of racial/ethnic minorities, socioeconomically disadvantaged, and rural populations.

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Send us your Good News! 202-469-3423 or email kmoore@opengovtv.com The Photo in this OGTV Public Service Announcement is that of Dr. Bernard Harris.

Dr. Bernard Anthony Harris, Jr. is a former NASA astronaut. On February 9, 1995, Harris became the first African American to perform an extra-vehicular activity, during the second of his two Space Shuttle flights.

Following his career in astronautics, Harris became an entrepreneur, working first as vice president of Spacehab, Inc. in 1996, where he worked on the commercialization of space exploration. After earning his M.B.A. degree from the University of Houston Clear Lake, Harris became executive director of Versalius Ventures in 2001.

Harris has received much recognition for his work as astronaut, entrepreneur, and as a community developer. In addition to becoming a fellow of the American College of Physicians, he is also the winner of The Challenger Award from the Ronald E. McNair Foundation, and recipient of the prestigious Horatio Alger Award. The Dr. Bernard A. Harris Middle School was named in his honor in 2006. That same year Harris established the ExxonMobil Bernard Harris Summer Science Camp and the Dream Tour, two STEM programs to encourage minority students to pursue an interest in the sciences.