This 12-year-old genius has her sights set on becoming a NASA engineer
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This 12-year-old child prodigy dreams of working at NASA one day
Alena Wicker is set to attend Arizona State University, where she’ll double major in astronomical and planetary science and chemistry, to further her dream of becoming a NASA engineer.D. Lacy Photography
A gifted 12-year-old is making waves as a soon-to-be college student with plans to work as a NASA engineer.
Alena Wicker, who lives in Texas, will be virtually attending Arizona State University this May after she graduates high school. There, she intends to double major in astronomical and planetary science and chemistry to further her dream of working at NASA as an engineer.
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A Sun Ra tribute concert by a member of the pathbreaking pop group Labelle leads to reflections on how Black women artists and scientists have often been at the vanguard of their disciplines though most are still awaiting due recognition.
This essay is featured in
Boston Review’s new book,
Ancestors.
On the last night of Black History Month, February 29, 2020, I attended a concert held in the Temple of Dendur, at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art the last such event that I would attend, it turned out, for a very long time. Those who have visited the room will know that it resembles a massive display case: a pavilion-like wall of glass exposes the temple to the sky, and a reflecting pool frames it below. On this night, the temple glowed lavender in the dark behind 600 folding chairs that had been set up to face a makeshift stage. A DJ played songs like Parliament’s “Mothership Connection (Star Child)” while four d
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The UAE has selected two new Emiratis to be part of its astronaut corps, including the Arab world’s first female astronaut.
Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid, Vice President and Ruler of Dubai, announced on Saturday that Nora Al Matroo
shi had been
Mohammed Al Mulla was also chosen. We announce today. two new Emirati astronauts . among them the first Arab (woman) astronaut Nora Al Matrooshi and Mohammed Al Mulla, Sheikh Mohammed tweeted. They have been chosen from among more than 4,000 applicants and their training will soon begin with the Nasa astronaut programme. We congratulate the country. We count on them to raise the name of the UAE in the sky.
Alice Neel: People Come First
Until 1 August at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan
The Met’s retrospective to the late US painter Alice Neel (1900-1984) chronicles six decades of the artist’s prolific career, from her ruminative portraits of New York’s global diaspora to her visceral depictions of motherhood. Some of the most striking pieces in the show are the nude portraits Neel painted of pregnant women a subject she said was missing in Western art that capture the psychological and physical weight of the moment, like the painting
Margaret Evans Pregnant (1978) depicting a friend of the artist who was pregnant with twins. The show also examines Neel’s lifelong engagement with New York, including piercing portraits of her neighbours in Spanish Harlem, and her work for the Works Progress Administration during the Great Depression. Neel stuck to an Expressionist painting style in an era where Abstraction reigned, and was “ambitious at a time wh
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