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Shirley Ann Jackson, FREng (born August 5, 1946) is an American physicist, and was the 18th president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.She is the first African American woman to have earned a doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Theoretical Elementary Particle Physics, [1] and the first African American woman to have earned a doctorate at MIT in any field. [2]
1999 saw the arrival of President Shirley Ann Jackson. A graduate of MIT, Jackson had held physics research positions at Bell Laboratories and Rutgers University, and had most recently served as chairperson for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. She instituted the "Rensselaer Plan", an ambitious plan to revitalize the institute. That same year ...
The Shirley Jackson Awards are literary awards named after Shirley Jackson in recognition of her legacy in writing. These awards for outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense , horror and dark fantasy are presented at Readercon , an annual conference on imaginative literature.
On International Women’s Day, here’s a look at some of the most important inventions created by women
The Shirley Ann Jackson Stock Index From January 2008 to December 2012, if you bought shares in companies when Shirley Ann Jackson joined the board, and sold them when she left, you would have a 43.2 percent return on your investment, compared to a -2.8 percent return from the S&P 500.
Conrad took Hammonds up to Boston, as Conrad was a student at Wellesley College at the time, and they visited the MIT campus together which impressed Hammonds and inspired her. Then, because of the Society of Physics Students at Spelman College, Hammond was introduced to Shirley Ann Jackson and Ronald McNair. She recalls that Jackson was, "the ...
A former Playboy model killed herself and her 7-year-old son after jumping from a hotel in Midtown New York City on Friday morning. The New York Post reports that 47-year-old Stephanie Adams ...
Moore was a tutor at the Saturday African-American Academy in Ann Arbor, a community program for teaching science and mathematics to students in grades 5–12. [1] She was also a member of The Links, Incorporated. [1] Additionally, Moore was a member of the Delta Sigma Theta sorority and also a member of the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal ...