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[h=1] Dr. Frederick Balagadde, Ph.D., is Co-Inventor of Microfluidic Device
A Ugandan National, is working on a microfluidics technology that couldrevolutionize bioscience the way microchips transformed computing. This easilyportable technology has, among numerous applications, the potential to become apowerful tool in the effort to combat infectious disease in the Third World, acause dear to Balagaddes heart
Ugandan Journalist, Shaka Ssali, Host of VOAs Straight Talk Africa
Shaka, a Ugandan born American journalist, holds a doctorate in cross cultural communication and history from UCLA in California. He is a former Ford Foundation Fellow and has received numerous honors, including a United Nations Peacekeeping Special Achievement Award in International Journalism. Other awards include VOAs Best Journalist Award and Kigezi College Butoberes first ever Highest Achievement Award in International Human Communication. Butobere is located in Kabale, southwestern Uganda, and is Shakas alma mater.
Kwatsi Alibaruho1st Black Mission-Control Flight Director
The first African-American to lead Mission Control is working shifts as a flight director for the International Space Station. Kwatsi Alibaruho completed more than 700 hours of training and began active duty in August.
Since the beginning of Americas space program,only 58 people have directed human space flight missions. The flight director class of 2005 is the second largest ever appointed and the most diverse.
The nine-member group also includes three women and two Hispanics.
Leading a team of flight controllers, support personnel and engineering experts, a flight director has the overall responsibility to manage and carry out space shuttle flights and International Space Station expeditions. A flight director also leads and orchestrates planning and integration activities with flight controllers, payload customers, space station partners and others.
Im humbled and honored to serve in the capacity of flight director, said Alibaruho,who spent his childhoodin Oakland, Calif., and Atlanta. I love the diversity of challenges inspace exploration and in mission operations, he added. Alibaruhos father, economist Dr.George Alibaruho, is from Uganda, while his mother, Dr. Gloria Alibaruho, is from Macon, Ga. Several of his siblings also were born in Uganda.
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A Ugandan National, is working on a microfluidics technology that couldrevolutionize bioscience the way microchips transformed computing. This easilyportable technology has, among numerous applications, the potential to become apowerful tool in the effort to combat infectious disease in the Third World, acause dear to Balagaddes heart
Ugandan Journalist, Shaka Ssali, Host of VOAs Straight Talk Africa
Shaka, a Ugandan born American journalist, holds a doctorate in cross cultural communication and history from UCLA in California. He is a former Ford Foundation Fellow and has received numerous honors, including a United Nations Peacekeeping Special Achievement Award in International Journalism. Other awards include VOAs Best Journalist Award and Kigezi College Butoberes first ever Highest Achievement Award in International Human Communication. Butobere is located in Kabale, southwestern Uganda, and is Shakas alma mater.
Kwatsi Alibaruho1st Black Mission-Control Flight Director
The first African-American to lead Mission Control is working shifts as a flight director for the International Space Station. Kwatsi Alibaruho completed more than 700 hours of training and began active duty in August.
Since the beginning of Americas space program,only 58 people have directed human space flight missions. The flight director class of 2005 is the second largest ever appointed and the most diverse.
The nine-member group also includes three women and two Hispanics.
Leading a team of flight controllers, support personnel and engineering experts, a flight director has the overall responsibility to manage and carry out space shuttle flights and International Space Station expeditions. A flight director also leads and orchestrates planning and integration activities with flight controllers, payload customers, space station partners and others.
Im humbled and honored to serve in the capacity of flight director, said Alibaruho,who spent his childhoodin Oakland, Calif., and Atlanta. I love the diversity of challenges inspace exploration and in mission operations, he added. Alibaruhos father, economist Dr.George Alibaruho, is from Uganda, while his mother, Dr. Gloria Alibaruho, is from Macon, Ga. Several of his siblings also were born in Uganda.
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