Tag: Lonnie Johnson

Lonnie Johnson to be featured at the 2nd Annual HBCU Honors

The 2nd Annual HBCU Honors, Presented By Procter & Gamble, Celebrates Black Excellence With A Star-Studded Lineup And Powerhouse Honoree Hosted by Kym Whitley, HBCU Honors celebrates the remarkable achievements of industry icons, including Will Packer, Lonnie Johnson & Jewel Burks Solomon. HBCU Honors is Hosted by Actress Kym Whitley, Celebrating HBCU Icons Will Packer, Lonnie Johnson, […]

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Lonnie Johnson Named a “Legend” in Atlanta Magazine’s List of 500 Most Powerful People in Atlanta

Atlanta Magazine announced their list of Atlanta’s 500 Most Powerful People for 2024. It named JTEC Founder Dr. Lonnie Johnson as a Legend. Read the full article here. Lonnie G. Johnson Johnson earned his master’s degree in nuclear engineering from Tuskegee University and went on to work for the U.S. Air Force and the NASA […]

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Dr. Lonnie Johnson Named as a 2024 Business Alabama Lifetime Achievement Winner

Johnson, Logan, Rane and Stitts are 2024 Business Alabama Lifetime Achievement winners The 5 will be honored at the Business Alabama Awards in March Excerpted from an article in Business Alabama. By  Business Alabama Staff  -January 26, 2024 Business Alabama will honor five distinguished people as Lifetime Achievement recipients at the Business Alabama Awards on […]

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‘Pioneering spirit’: Westside BeltLine project lures energy startup

  By Amy Wenk – Staff Reporter, Atlanta Business Chronicle Oct 10, 2023 Updated Oct 10, 2023 2:58pm EDT About seven years ago, when 23 acres of brick warehouses along the Atlanta BeltLine’s Westside Trail were turned into a new project called Lee + White, it attracted a collection of popular breweries and restaurants. Now, the next wave of tenants […]

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Super Soaker inventor tackles book bans, being ‘woke’ in Spring Hill College address

Article by John Sharp for AL.com Spring Hill College Graduation Filtering through misinformation, pushing back against book bans, and being “woke,” were among the charged cultural and topical issues Alabama native and Super Soaker inventor Lonnie Johnson warned against Saturday during a commencement address at Spring Hill College. Johnson, an Atlanta scientist and engineer and […]

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Inventors Don’t Receive The Respect They Deserve. That’s Changing

Article by Madeleine Key for Forbes A curiosity of the innovation ecosystem is that while inventors are celebrated for their uniquely important contributions, they’re also underrepresented. Inventors are rarely speakers at conferences about intellectual property and technology. They do not hold leadership positions at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. A lone inventor sits on […]

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