Dean’s Speaker Series For November At Alabama A&M

HUNTSVILLE-On Wednesday,  November 18 Alabama A&M University will hold their Dean’s Speaker Series at 12:30 PM in the Arthur L. Bond Hall, Room 233. The Keynote Speaker will be Noel D. Blackburn.  His topic will be “Why Questions and Research are a Segway to BNL”.

Noel D. Blackburn is the University Relations and DOE Internship Programs Manager in the Office of Educational Programs (OEP) at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), a multi-disciplinary national laboratory owned by the Department of Energy (DOE) and home to seven (7) Nobel Prize Laureates in numerous fields of research.  Mr. Blackburn is responsible for managing DOE Undergraduate, Graduate and Faculty research programs, create access opportunities for underrepresented groups into DOE-BNL programs, develop STEM workforce development initiatives with colleges/universities and develop sustainable relationships with funding agencies to further DOE and BNL mission statements.

Before his present position, Blackburn was a Project Engineer on the Peconic River Remediation Project from 2001 to 2003 and a Field Engineer on groundwater and soil remediation projects for the Brookhaven Lab Environmental Management Directorate.  Noel has served in various engineering positions at Bechtel International, Inc. on the Atlantic Liquid Natural Gas Plant project in Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies.

Noel Blackburn has served as an Adjunct Lecturer for the Physical, Environmental and Computer Science Department at Medgar Evers College. He is a member of the Trinidad and Tobago Professional Engineers Association, the American Society of Civil Engineers and American Society for Engineering Education.  Blackburn earned his Master of Engineering in Environmental Engineering, where he received a university citation for outstanding performance, and a Bachelors of Engineering in Civil Engineering from the City College of New York, CUNY.

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