Milton Dean Slaughter

Milton Dean Slaughter is an American theoretical and phenomenological physicist and affiliate professor of physics at Florida International University. Slaughter was a visiting associate professor of physics in the Center for Theoretical Physics, University of Maryland, College Park while on sabbatical from Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) of the University of California from 1984 to 1985.

Early life and education

Slaughter was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was awarded a full scholarship to Columbia College, Columbia University, Class of '66. Slaughter worked as an engineering aide in the Engineering Group of the Boeing Company (1964–1965) on the S-IC first booster stage of the Saturn V rocket, manufactured at the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, Louisiana and after returning to Columbia enlisted in the USAF Security Service, where he served as an interpreter from 1966 to 1970.

Representing Los Alamos National Laboratory as HBCU project manager and reporting to LANL's associate director for physics and mathematics (Warren F. Miller, Jr.), and under the auspices of Presidential Executive Order 12320, Slaughter negotiated with Department of Energy (DOE) Forrestal Headquarters, DOE Germantown, DOE Albuquerque Field Office, and DOE Los Alamos Area Office personnel for funding of HBCU programmatic activities, created the Laboratory administrative and managerial infrastructure necessary to support a program whose focus was external aid to HBCUs and whose funding was provided directly from DOE and organized the first national laboratory conference that brought representatives of over 30 HBCU schools to Los Alamos to confer with Laboratory scientific personnel on research initiatives in all areas of physics, chemistry, and mathematics.

Slaughter's conference led to direct DOE funding via subcontract for equipment and personnel at several HBCUs (Alabama A&M University, Howard University, and Southern University, Baton Rouge), the establishment of a summer internship program for HBCU students first conducted at Los Alamos in 1985, and the inception of several collaborations between Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists and HBCU professors.

University of New Orleans In 1989, Slaughter was appointed professor (with tenure), chair and department head (1989-1999) of the Department of Physics of the University of New Orleans,

Slaughter was a recipient of a National Science Foundation five year continuing grant entitled: Research on an Algebraic, Nonperturbative Approach to Hadrons and Glueballs, Award Number: 9012374; NSF Organization: PHY, Start Date:02/01/1991; Award Amount:$224,000.00.

Slaughter was co-principal investigator of the National Science Foundation grant entitled A Workshop for the American Physical Society's Corporate Sponsored Scholarships for Minority Undergraduate Students Who Major in Physics, $30,000, grant number HRD-92 53144, Summer of 1992. With Co-Principal Investigators, Dr. Anthony M. Johnson then Distinguished Professor of Physics and chair, New Jersey Institute of Technology and Dr. Brian Schwartz, then American Physical Society Associate Executive Secretary and Professor of Physics, Brooklyn College. sponsored by the National Science Foundation and hosted by Hampton University and conducted at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility.

He was appointed as a Charter Fellow of the National Society of Black Physicists in 1991,

In 1992, Slaughter and a colleague at Xavier University of Louisiana received a National Science Foundation cooperative agreement to establish the Research Careers for Minority Scholars Graduate Dual Degree Program. The program, which ran from 1992 to 1999, supported Xavier undergraduates in pursuing dual degrees, a B.S. from Xavier University of Louisiana, and an M.S. from the University of New Orleans, in fields including computer science, engineering, mathematics, and physics. The program preceded the Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation program in Louisiana, for which Slaughter served as a Phase One co-principal investigator and associate director.

Slaughter was the initiating developer of the state-wide Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) program in Louisiana and brought in three Co-Principal Investigators and served as its associate director between 1995 and 2000. Five year state-wide continuing Cooperative Agreement (NSF No. HRD-9550765) was funded at $5,000,000 (NSF) and $2,500,000 of matching funds from the Louisiana Board of Regents. In addition, at UNO, Slaughter also designed and directed the "Next Step" LSAMP program component designed to increase the probability that underrepresented minority students who majored in STEM fields ultimately succeed in obtaining the Bachelor of Science degree. The Next Step Program produced more than 100 graduates.

Florida International University In 2006, after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, Slaughter became professor emeritus and department head and chair emeritus of the University of New Orleans and visiting (affiliate research) professor of physics of the Florida International University in Miami, Florida. demonstrates his immense enjoyment working with federal, state, and local agencies, international agencies, corporations, and foundations to increase the number of female and underrepresented minorities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

In April 2019, Slaughter developed a much longer, detailed ″White Paper″ entitled "Status of Underrepresented Minorities in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)", which included a program solution outline for a university organizational unit (UOU).

Slaughter is currently chair of the Edward Bouchet Abdus Salam Institute (EBASI) of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) located in Trieste, Italy, initiated the creation of a memorandum of understanding between ICTP and EBASI, and received an invitation as an international expert by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to serve on a nuclear science education and accelerator training enhancement panel.

In 2014, he was elected to the rank of Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and honored for "contributions to non-perturbative elementary particle and nuclear physics and for the creation of effective educational programs involving minority and female STEM students".

In December, 2014, Slaughter was named a STEM Founding Fellow of the STEM Transformation Institute at Florida International University. ·

August, 2020, Niels Bohr Library & Archives, American Institute of Physics, College Park, MD USA, Interview of Milton Slaughter,

International activities Founding council member and chair of the EBASI executive board, International Centre on Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy. Invited speaker to professional conferences worldwide, including events in China, Ghana, Egypt, Benin, South Africa, England, Italy, Japan, and others. International expert, nuclear science education and accelerator training, International Atomic Energy Agency. Memorandum of Understanding, signed 11 February 2009 by ICTP Director K.R. Sreenivasan and Slaughter (as EBASI Chair) formalizing joint synergistic cooperation in scientific and technical collaborations among physical scientists, mathematicians, engineers, and technologists from America and Europe and their counterparts from developing countries, especially Africa.

Personal life He is married to Hazel Nicholas, who has a B.A. in special education from Dillard University. They have three adult children.