Refine, Redesign, & Serve

Reclaiming our witchiness crosses many threads, many incarnations and many of our wounds. Through the lens of astrology, consider the goddesses as portals into healing and connecting with Spirit. Examine Eris, the Goddess of Discord along side Medea, Circe and Hecate.

I earned my Ph.D. in astrophysics from Indiana University Bloomington, in December 1991, becoming the USA’s first Black female theoretical astrophysicist.  But, more important, I am the first person to successfully work out the Penrose mechanism to extract energy from the ergosphere of a rotating black hole using Einstein’s Theory of General and Special Relativity (R. K. Williams 1995, Physical Review D, 51, No. 10, 5387-5427; see also articles below).  This work shows that Kerr (rotating) black holes are capable of providing the energy of quasars and other active galactic nuclei.

I am a Research Assistant Professor of Astrophysics (2008-?) at The University of Toledo (UT).  I am a former Visiting Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy (2006-2009) at UT and formerly an Associate Professor of Astrophysics and Director of the Center for Women and Science at Bennett College (1998-2001).  I was previously (beginning in January 1997) a Visiting Assistant Professor of Physics at North Carolina A & T (NCAT) State University.  I am formerly an Assistant Scientist at the University of Florida (1997-2004), collaborating with Dr. Henry Kandrup, my postdoctoral advisor.  I was a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow and Postdoctoral Associate at the University of Florida (1993-1996).

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