Katherine Johnson

Spa City Lane Named For Katherine Johnson

... many years been “one of our best-kept secrets,” Mayor Lloyd Haynes announced on Monday a proposal to dub a heretofore nameless but well-traveled lane as “Katherine Coleman Way.”. Council approved the measure unanimously. The lane — technically, an alleyway — runs between St. Thomas Episcopal Church and the White Sulphur Springs Public Library. The library’s board also has plans to honor Johnson, but has paused the process in order to consult with the lady herself, according to library director Joann Hartzell. “We need to find out how she would like to be honored before making any decisions,” Hartzell said following a Wednesday evening library board meeting. Council member G. P. Parker, who has been leading the city’s effort to get highway signage indicating White Sulphur’s connection to Johnson, announced Monday that the state has finally agreed to situate signs bearing the message “Birthplace of Katherine Coleman Johnson” on both sides of the city on ...

Katherine Johnson, A Black Nasa Pioneer, Finds Acclaim At 98

... Johnson, a black NASA pioneer, finds acclaim at 98. Share this. Submit to Stumbleupon (Opens in new window). Joseph Rodriguez, News & Record via AP. Katherine Moore, daughter of Katherine Johnson who was the lead figure in the movie Hidden Figures, with memorabilia about her mathematician mom and her work with NASA, on Jan. 12, 2017, in Greensboro, N. C. January 28, 2017 at 10:24 pm. | UPDATED. Ask Amy: Atheist should consider becoming “Goshfather”. Victoria St. Martin, The Washington Post. Fame has finally found Katherine Johnson — and it only took 98 years, six manned moon landings, a best-selling book and an Oscar-nominated movie. For more than 30 years, Johnson worked as a NASA mathematician at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, where she played an unseen but pivotal role in the country’s space missions. That she was an ...

The Woman Who Was A 'hidden Figure

... Johnson’s telemetry calculations over those from computers that were relatively new at the time. “Yes, he was like me,” she said. “He didn't trust … the computers.”. He knew her equations done by hand had worked for some very high-stakes missions. So how did she feel about so much weight riding on her arithmetic. “No problem.”. 'La La Land' Takes Top Honors at Producers Guild Awards. Math never stumped Johnson. She is a legend now at NASA, where a lot has changed since her 33 years there. She was a major catalyst for that change. Her brilliant mind for math led to great strides in the race to get to space and back. Octavia Spencer Picks up 'Woman of the Year' Award. She says she was just doing her job, but her parts putting America out front in the pioneering days of the space race and bringing her race from the back of the bus when they rode to work both earned a place in history. The movie offers only a glimpse of Johnson's life away from NASA. The single mother of three daughters has a new husband who is still in her life. Oscar Shows No Love For 'Hidden Figures' Star Henson. Christine ...

Moonlight' Wins Best Picture After Incorrect Announcement

... any form of walls that wants to separate us.”. Even the foreign-language award, rarely a high-profile category, became a charged moment. Asghar Farhadi, the Iranian director whose film “The Salesman” won the award, refused to attend the ceremony in the wake of the recent travel ban and sent Iranian astronaut Anousheh Ansari to read a statement. “Dividing the word into the ‘us’ and ‘them’ categories creates fear,” Farhadi’s statement read. “It’s a deceitful justification for aggression and war.”. As of 11 p.m., the top Oscars had yet to be handed out, leaving the evening’s most talked-about film, the musical “La La Land,” with only one Oscar, for production design but lost two Oscars. Mel Gibson’s World War II biopic “Hacksaw Ridge” took home awards for sound mixing and film editing, while sci-fi ...

Wv Colleges Plan Tribute Statues For Nasa’s Katherine Johnson

... how to do her job. In addition to that, Thorne turned the discussion into a teachable moment on race and respect. “I want my kids to be knowledgeable about history because I don’t want history to repeat itself,” Thorne said. “I just want my boys to know that life’s hard sometimes but you can overcome stuff. I told Owen that she went to college and he can too. He has a cousin who is [biracial] so it blows his mind how people are treated because they have brown skin. I tell him no one should be treated poorly. He gets it, but adults don’t always get it.”. ▪ ▪ &squf. Like Thorne and many others, Ellen Mueller, assistant professor of art for West Virginia Wesleyan, didn’t know Johnson’s story until she heard about the movie “Hidden Figures.” She was looking for “a notable West Virginian to honor who had overcome challenges to reach excellence,” for a 3-D design class project. “Right after Christmas, I read an article that the main character of the movie is based on a woman from West Virginia,” she ...

Katherine Johnson Led African American Efforts In Space Travel

... she would become most known for. The complexity of the orbital flight required the construction of a worldwide communications network linking tracking stations around the world to IBM computers in Washington, D. C., Cape Canaveral, and Bermuda. The computers had been programmed with the orbital equations that would control the trajectory of the space capsule in Glenn’s Friendship 7 mission from liftoff to splashdown but the astronauts were wary of putting their lives in the care of the electronic calculating machines which were prone to hiccups and blackouts. As a part of the preflight checklist, Glenn asked the engineers to “get the girl” Johnson Johnson to run the same numbers through the same equations that had been programmed into the computer, but by hand, on her desktop mechanical calculating machine. “If she says they’re good,” Johnson remembers the astronaut saying, “then I’m ready to ...

Taraji P. Henson’s Glamorous Oscars 2017 Alberta Ferretti Look Is An Homage To Katherine Johnson

... seemed to be revealing another layer of herself. The sleek and vampy off-the-shoulder midnight blue velvet gown was a far cry from the romantic and frothy semi-sheer Reem Acra concoction she wore to last month’s SAG Awards. But as Henson told Vogue, the Ferretti gown spoke to the “strength and brilliance” of her onscreen Figures character Katherine Johnson. The plunging neckline and high-slit detail of the silhouette also gave a heavy nod to the glamour of Old Hollywood, an era that her stylist Jason Bolden explained is a constant reference point for the two. “For this look, our inspiration was vintage Hollywood glamour—a consistent go-to for us,” he said. “Taraji is fun and known for the big characters she plays in film and on television. But she’s also multifaceted, so we went with showing her other side.”. Photo: Courtesy of Taraji P. Henson. When ...

What Happened At The Oscars That You Didn‘t See On Tv

... first people to congratulate Mahershala Ali on his Oscar win. By H. Walker/Rex/Shutterstock. Stationed backstage at the Dolby Theater, watching as every winner and presenter makes their way to and from the Oscars stage, Hollywood Correspondent Rebecca Keegan will be filing dispatches of all the amazing moments you won’t see on the telecast. 8:25 p.m. PT: “I can't shake any hands tonight,“ La La Land composer Justin Hurwitz said as he exited the stage, clutching an Oscar in each fist after his wins for best score and best song (the latter with Benj Pasek and Justin Paul). “This is the greatest.”. As John Legend warmed up for his performance, singing scales backstage, Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling watched on a monitor as Linus Sandgren won the cinematography prize for their movie. “Yeah! Yeah!” Stone said, clapping and jumping up and down, and greeting Sandgren with a giant hug ...

Highlights And Winners

... the film’s subject, 98-year-old Katherine Johnson, who received a standing ovation. The actresses then presented the Oscar for best documentary feature, which went to “O. J.: Made in a America,” the nearly eight-hour ESPN miniseries. Kimmel then tried an O. J. Simpson joke that drew groans from the celebrity audience. Luckily, he was able to then introduce consummate crowd-pleaser Dwayne Johnson, who sang a bit before bringing Lin-Manuel Miranda and “Moana” star Auli’i Cravalho to the stage to perform - with Miranda offering up a new prologue rap for their nominated song, “How Far I’ll Go.”. Looking to one-up his peanut butter and jelly sandwich gag at last year’s Emmy, Jimmy Kimmel treated the crowd to candy dropped into the auditorium via small packages on parachutes. Hollywood steps out on Oscars night. ...