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"Talent is everywhere," she said. After a remarkable career spanning nearly 50 years, STEM trailblazer, physicist and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute President Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson is retiring.
Shirley wrote many descriptive titles for her stories and others that may leave the reader doing some head-scratching. Ruth Franklin, in her biography of my mother, “Shirley Jackson: A Rather ...
Shirley Ann Jackson, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's president who has seen the university through major change since taking the reins in 1999, was the ninth-highest-paid private college ...
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 ...