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here's my contribution on dr. shirley ann jackson, the first black woman president of rensselaer polytechnic institute. soror is doin' the damn thing. info is copied and pasted directly from their website...
Dr. Jackson is the first African-American woman to receive a doctorate from M.I.T. — in any subject.
She is one of the first two African-American women to receive a doctorate in physics in the U.S.
She is the first African-American to become a Commissioner of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
She is both the first woman and the first African-American to serve as the chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and now the first African-American woman to lead a national research university.
She is also the first African-American woman elected to the National Academy of Engineering.
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