The National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE), an organization that seeks to increase the number of black engineering professionals, will hold its annual convention in Anaheim, Calif., on March 25–29. The 41st Annual Convention, to be held at the Anaheim Convention Center and neighboring facilities, is expected to draw more than 8,000 attendees.

A special Black History Month Edition of USA Today newspaper is now on the newsstand. This volume covers “A Century of Change” from the perspective of African Americans, from the “Great Migration” of blacks from the segregated South, to the civil rights movement and the landmark events of “Bloody Sunday” in Selma, Ala., to the challenges now posed by racism in the U.S. and how they are being met, to the reversal of the Great Migration, as many African Americans return to the South.
 

Send 100 Ferguson, Mo., students to NSBE’s 41st Annual Convention.

NSBE member Dante J. O’Hara, a first-year student in the University of California, Riverside’s materials science and engineering Ph.D. program, is an innovator in a field related to quantum computing. These futuristic technologies attempt to harness the nature and behavior of atoms and subatomic particles to create computers much faster and more powerful at problem-solving than the transistor-based computers of today.