TROY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson says she by no means imagined herself as a task mannequin. She is the President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an achieved theoretical physicist. She’s additionally the primary African-American lady to ever obtain a doctorate from MIT, to be chair of the Nuclear Regulatory Fee, the one lady and African-American to be RPI president, amongst many different glass ceiling-shattering achievements.
“I feel when one finally ends up able like that, then one is each the recipient of doorways which have opened alongside the best way, and one is then opening doorways that one hopes and intends to maintain open for others to observe,” Jackson says in a Zoom interview with NEWS10’s Mikhaela Singleton.
