Shirley Ann Jackson received the National Medal of Science, (the nation’s highest honor in science and engineering), which underlines her significant contributions to those fields. Jackson is a big ...

The first African-American woman to earn an MIT doctorate, Shirley Ann Jackson ’68, PhD ’73, worked to help the Institute begin to diversify. She then applied her mix of vision and pragmatism ...

Alexander Miles, Charles Richard Drew, Marie Van Brittan Brown, Shirley Ann Jackson, and Mark E. Dean are just a few notable African-American inventors. We live in a world with blood banks ...