BIPOC in STEM

Shirley Ann Jackson speaks during session at the Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Tianjin, China, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

• Born 1946, Washington, DC
• 1968, Graduates with a B.S. in Theoretical Physics from MIT
• 1973, Earns Ph.D. in Nuclear Physics from MIT, becoming the first African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. in Physics in the U.S.
• 1976, Begins working at Bell Labs in the Theoretical Physics Dept.
• 1991-1995, Teaches at Rutgers University
• 1995, Appointed Chair of U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission by President Bill Clinton
• 1999, Appointed president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• 2014, Awarded National Medal of Science