#BlackGirlMagic: Miona Short Is First Black Woman to Earn BS in Astrophysics at UW

By David Dahmer  by http://madison365.com

Here’s an amazing fact: Miona Short recently became the first African-American woman ever to earn a Bachelor of Science(BS) degree in Astrophysics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Here’s another amazing fact: She did it exactly 100 years after the first African-American woman graduated from the University of Wisconsin way back in 1918.

“That’s … that’s wow. It’s really cool. Somebody first told me that fact when I was a freshman – that I would be the first – and I was floored. Right now, I feel very honored, very humbled,” Short tells Madison365 in an interview at Colectivo Coffee on the Capitol Square in downtown Madison. “Timing is everything and I had no idea until I started looking up the history of some of the first black students at the university and when I saw that the first black woman graduated exactly 100 years ago, it sent a shiver up my spine. It’s one of those things that brings tears to your eyes. The numerical alignment is so beautiful, but the fact that it would take 100 years is very telling of the culture in the …

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