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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]
Like Mother Used to Make" is a short story by Shirley Jackson. It was originally published in the 1949 short story collection The Lottery and Other Stories by publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux . It contains the second appearance of James Harris, a recurring character in the collection.
Shirley Hardie Jackson (December 14, 1916 – August 8, 1965) was an American writer known primarily for her works of horror and mystery.Her writing career spanned over two decades, during which she composed six novels, two memoirs, and more than 200 short stories.
“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.
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.
This discovery led Hyman and Dewitt to produce a new collection of their mother's work titled Just An Ordinary Day, which contains thirty-two new stories—some of which came from Jackson's unsorted papers that had been sent by her husband to the Library of Congress as well as from the San Francisco Public Library—and twenty-one which had ...
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 ...
The song “Get Down,” performed by Anne of Cleves, has a burlesque feel reminiscent of a juke joint. She is remembered for being chosen from her portrait and then being rejected when Henry met ...