it was when she founded the Black Student Union at M.I.T., and went on to become President at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and in research it was when she developed technology that was ...

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 ...