A graduating senior at Spelman College has received a STEM scholarship from renowned and retired astronaut Joan Higginbotham, the third Black woman to travel to space. According to Atlanta’s 13 WMAZ, ...

ATLANTA — A senior at Spelman College received a STEM scholarship Thursday from retired astronaut Joan Higginbotham – the third Black woman to travel to space. Higginbotham presented the prestigious ...

Former astronaut and Lowe’s Companies Inc. executive Joan Higginbotham will deliver the keynote address at North Carolina Central University’s (NCCU) 129th Commencement Exercise on Saturday, May 13.

Hundreds of people came together near Cape Cod in early August to celebrate Black excellence in space. A Massachusetts event called "From STEM to the Stars," from the National Math and Science ...

MURRAY, Ky. (KFVS) - A retired NASA astronaut will speak at Murray State University as part of a speaker series. Joan Higginbotham will speak at “Commanding the Unknown: Leadership and Stress ...

At age 8, Joan Higginbotham wanted to be an engineer. She thought she might work for IBM. What she didn’t expect was to travel to space. “Always have a plan, but don’t be afraid to alter that plan for ...

Editor’s note: Danette Mitchell’s column appears in the Sunday print editions of The Reporter. While NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams were splashing down into the Gulf of Mexico in ...

Stephanie Wilson and Joan Higginbotham, two Black women who dared to dream the impossible. One reached for the stars, the other was exceptional at math. Nevertheless, both reached, what seems, the ...

Joan Higginbotham, 60, became only the third African American woman to go into space when she spent 12 days on board Space Shuttle Discovery in December 2006. The determined electrical engineer, who's ...

Ciara Sivels had her heart set on becoming a pastry chef and attending culinary school after graduation, until her high school chemistry teacher encouraged her to pursue chemical engineering after ...