Wright grew up in Powhatan County and graduated from Powhatan High School. In 1976, he was hired by then Sheriff Nelson Batterson as the county’s first black deputy sheriff.

Harriett Gaston, an academic adviser at Penn State Altoona, will give a lecture on Thursday, June 5, about Daniel Hale Williams, the doctor who performed the first successful open-heart surgery in ...

Former The Devil Wears Prada drummer Daniel Williams and talent agent Dave Shapiro were both killed in a fatal plane crash in San Diego on May 22.. At least two people are dead and eight others ...

The Devil Wears Prada members Mike Hranica, from left, Andy Trick, Daniel Williams, Chris Rubey and Jeremy DePoyster visit SiriusXM Studios in New York City on Sept. 18, 2013.

He needed surgery, but medical professionals at the time believed operating on the heart was too dangerous. That was about to change. Without antibiotics, adequate anesthesia or many of the tools used ...

The weekend finishes up with an art installation at the Flamingo Club on Williams Island. Featuring original art from muralist Demien DeYonte, the exhibit honors Dr. Daniel Hale Williams, one of the ...

Penick wrote an essay, at the encouragement of mother Bertha, on Dr. Daniel Hale Williams, a Black cardiologist from the 19th century lauded for conducting the first successful open-heart surgery ...

Guillermo Ameer Daniel Hale Williams Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Professor of Surgery; Inaugural Director, Querrey Simpson Institute for Regenerative Engineering at Northwestern University ...

Ameer is the Daniel Hale Williams Professor of Biomedical Engineering at McCormick, professor of surgery at Feinberg and founding director of the newly established Querrey Simpson Institute for ...

Daniel Hale Williams (1856-1931) – Performed One of the First Open-Heart Surgeries. Daniel Hale Williams was born on January 18, 1856 in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania. Williams went to the Chicago ...

Members of the IU Northwest Chemistry Club have been leading a monthly class for students at Daniel Hale Williams Elementary School in Gary, focusing specifically on forensics, as it relates to ...

He pointed to surgeon and researcher Dr. Charles Drew who pioneered work on blood storage and transfusions, Dr. Daniel Hale Williams who helped develop the field of heart surgery and engineer Otis ...