DID YOU KNOW? for February 1 - 13, 2022:  

Did You Know...Dr. Charles E. Anderson was the first black man to receive a PhD in Meteorology (MIT, 1960) and first black man to earn tenure at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He was a Dean at UW-Madison (in the 1970’s and 1980’s), pioneered research and work that involved minimizing contrails of high-altitude aircrafts, worked extensively as a leading expert on severe storms and tornadoes, and made discoveries in the meteorology of other planets.

Dr. Anderson was not only a distinguished scientist and meteorologist, but also an African American Studies scholar and teacher, serving a Professor of Afro-American Studies for several years at UW-Madison.

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After leaving UW-Madison in 1987, Dr. Anderson was a professor in the Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC until he retired in 1990. He was a major contributor at NC State to a program focused on the forecasting of severe storms that received national recognition. Anderson's exemplary career as a scientist, leader, and mentor inspired the American Meteorological Society to establish an award named in his honor in 2000.

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