Biography: Shirley Ann Jackson of New York is the 18th president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Dr. Jackson received the B.S. and Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has ...
Shirley Ann Jackson, FREng is an American physicist, and the eighteenth president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She is the first African-American woman to have earned a doctorate at the ...
On August 5, 1946, Shirley Ann Jackson was born into the civil rights movement against segregation that had consistently challenged the moral compass of the United States. Discriminatory laws forced ...