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Shirley Ann Jackson, who received a Doctor of Laws degree, is touted as a possible successor to outgoing University President Lawrence H. Summers, who departs Harvard after only five years in office. Joining her in the ceremony was famed broadcast journalist Jim Lehrer, who also delivered the keynote Commencement address...
Shirley Ann Jackson...
...graduate Shirley Ann Jackson has always been a trailblazer: she co-founded the Black Student Union at the university, became the first black woman at MIT to earn a doctoral degree, and also made history as the first black woman in the country to earn a doctorate in physics...
Jackson’s ability to break new ground continued both in her research in physics at many prominent research centers and as a public leader. Four years after being named a professor at Rutgers University, Jackson became the first woman and first black person to chair the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission...
Renowned for her research, Jackson was selected to lead the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1999. She made history as the first black woman in U.S. history to take the helm of a major research university...