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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]
While the national unemployment rate remains at a steep 9.7%, the U.S. still has an alarming shortage of science and technology professionals, warns noted physicist and college president Shirley ...
“I am Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson!” she intoned after another student (a fifth grader!) made it clear she wanted to hear her story. Johnson went on. “I am one of the first African American women ...
The following is a list of notable African-American women who have made contributions to the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.. An excerpt from a 1998 issue of Black Issues in Higher Education by Juliane Malveaux reads: "There are other reasons to be concerned about the paucity of African American women in science, especially as scientific occupations are among the ...
This was also the year of the arrival of Shirley Ann Jackson, a former chairperson of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission under U.S. President Bill Clinton, as the eighteenth president of RPI. She instituted "The Rensselaer Plan" (discussed below), an ambitious plan to revitalize the institute. Many advances have been made under the plan, and ...
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.
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 ...
The book by Thigpen and Cleckley was rushed into publication, and the film rights were immediately sold to director Nunnally Johnson in 1957, apparently to capitalize on public interest in multiple personalities following the publication of Shirley Jackson's 1954 novel The Bird's Nest, [9] which was also made into a film in 1957 titled Lizzie.