"My Journey from the Horn of Africa to NASA!"
Dr. Belay Demoz, Professor/Director of the Joint Center for Earth
Systems Technology (JCET), University of Maryland, Baltimore County,
presented a Maniac lecture entitled, "My Journey from the Horn of Africa
to NASA!" Belay shared lessons learned from his unlikely, but
rewarding journey from the Horn of Africa that is characterized by
historic drought, civil war, geopolitics, and luck (a lot of it) and the
struggle to pay it back to society through integration of science,
education, and service. It is a journey that benefited from good
people, unexpected opportunities, good advice and choices he made along
the way (some that he did not know were good at the time), including
becoming an atmospheric physicist.
https://youtu.be/-bk1mVMu5VA
https://youtu.be/-bk1mVMu5VA
Posted: September 8, 2017, 9:27 AM
