Hutton Honors College
— America's Energy Policies
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***CANCELLED***America's Energy Policies—Pizza discussion supper with the Honorable Shirley Ann Jackson, Ph.D., president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
This is a small-group program and requires participants to sign up in advance. Participants must be IU undergraduates and must sign up using the established procedures. For complete sign-up procedures, click here.As fuel costs rise and fuel demands climb world-wide, what should be American's energy policy? Can nuclear materials be adequately safe-guarded in today's dangerous world? Join one of American's leading scientists, educators, and policy-makers for supper and wide-ranging conversation. Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson is truly a woman of firsts. She was the first African American woman to receive a doctorate in any subject from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; the first of two African American women to receive a doctorate in physics in the United States; the first African American to become a commissioner of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the first woman and the first African American to serve as its chair; and the first African-American woman to lead a national research university-not to mention several other notable "firsts." She has been a leader in government, industry, and research, serving recently as the president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world's largest scientific society, and has received numerous awards. She is noted for bringing together diverse groups with differing views to resolve difficult issues. She is described as an innovator with the ability to see a need and enact the necessary changes and an advocate for education and excellence who wants to inspire all young people to be the best that they can be. On campus as a Patten Lecturer, Dr. Jackson will deliver two public lectures (titles to be announced), on Tuesday, March 22, 7:30 p.m., and Thursday, March 24, 7:30 p.m. Both will be in Rawles 100 and will be free and open to the public. More on the Honorable Shirley Ann Jackson, Ph.D. at the
Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute Office of the President.
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