AAAS/Delta SEE Radio Program

To demystify the world of science and capture the imaginations of African American children and their families, AAAS and the nation’s largest association of professional African American women have begun a radio program that features interviews with renowned African American scientists and mathematicians.

This week on WOL AM, Dr. Isiah Warner, professor of analytical and environmental chemistry at Louisiana State University, tells the story of how he went from conducting experiments on himself at the age of two to helping recruit African American Ph.D. candidates at LSU in record numbers.

To produce the program, AAAS has joined forces with the nation’s largest African American sorority, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., and the Delta Research and Educational Foundation (DREF).

"This initiative is opening for us a whole new medium for providing a window into the world of science fo the African American community," says Shirley Malcom, director of the AAAS Directorate for Education and Human Resources and a commentator on the show. "In their stories, the scientists explain the importance of science in their lives, but also in the lives of everyday Americans."

WOL, 1450 AM, the Radio One station in Washington, DC, with the largest African American audience in the area, has become the first station to broadcast the interviews compiled for the project known as Delta SEE, for "Science and Everyday Experiences." The program can be heard every Saturday, from 5 to 6 p.m., through 18 October. In the coming weeks, the series will be distributed to Radio One stations nationwide, as well as to other radio stations in African American markets and to radio stations operated on the campuses of historically-black colleges and universities.

Listen to a clip from the most recent radio program, which was broadcast on Saturday, 14 June, from 5 to 6 p.m., or listen to the entire program in MP3 format (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4) or RealAudio (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4).

See also all past Delta SEE radio programs.

—Coimbra Sirica

10 June 2003