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2001 Black engineer of the year receives Vannevar Bush Award
The National Science Foundation has chosen Shirley Ann Jackson, Ph.D., president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, to receive the 2007 Vannevar Bush Award.
A leader in higher education and and in government, Dr. Jackson was selected to receive the annual award from the National Science Board for her lifetime of contributions in science, education and public policy. In addition to her Bush award Dr. Jackson, the first Black female Ph.D. out of M.I.T. and first African American to chair the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, was named Black Engineer of the Year by US Black Engineer & Information Technology magazine in 2001. She was the first woman to receive the award in its 21-year history.