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Physics pioneer: Alum Jami Valentine Miller
Since becoming the first Black woman to earn a PhD in physics at Johns Hopkins, Miller has tracked the successes and achievements of Black women in physics
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Credit: Courtesy of Jami Valentine Miller By Katie Pearce / Published Feb 26, 2021
Among a sea of physicists, a Black woman tends to stand out, says Jami Valentine Miller. In the past, when she s attended large conferences in her field, it s not hard, out of thousands of people, to spot the one person who s like you, she says. And then it s like, Well, let me go over and introduce myself.
Feb 26, 2021
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On Friday, NASA is broadcasting a special ceremony marking the renaming of the agency’s headquarters building in Washington D.C. in honor of the late Mary W. Jackson, whose historic work as a mathematician and aerospace engineer was documented in Margot Lee Shetterly’s book
Jackson started her career with NASA in the segregated West Area Computing Unit of the Langley Research Center in Virginia before going on to lead programs that had far-reaching impacts on the hiring and promotion of women in the agency’s science, tech, engineering, and mathematics careers. In 2019, 14 years after her death at the age of 83, Jackson was posthumously honored with the Congressional Gold Medal.