#LLABlog – Meet Dr. Shirley Jackson, the first African-American woman to earn a Doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dr. Shirley Jackson is the President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). She holds a B.S. in Physics and a PhD in Theoretical Elementary Particle Physics from MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). She is the first African American woman to receive a doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In addition to the doctorate, Jackson has […]