Shirley M. Tilghman

Shirley Marie Tilghman OC (* 17th September 1946 in Toronto , Ontario , Canada as Shirley Marie Caldwell ) is a Canadian molecular biologist . She was President of Princeton University from 2001 to 2013 .

Life

Tilghman graduated from high school in Winnipeg , Manitoba Province and received a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry from Queen's University in Kingston , Ontario in 1968 . She then worked for two years as a teacher at a high school in Sierra Leone . You doctorate in the subject Biochemistry at the US Temple University in Philadelphia in Pennsylvania .

Tilghman was married to Joseph Tilghman from 1970 to 1980. The couple have a daughter and a son. In 1986 Shirley M. Tilghman was called to Princeton University, where he was Howard A. Prior Professor of the Life Sciences . Two years later she received an additional call as a researcher at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute . In 1998 she was founding director of the cross-disciplinary Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics at her university. She has been a member of the Google Board of Directors since October 2005 .

President of Princeton University

In 2001, Tilghman became the first woman to serve as President of Princeton University. During her tenure, the sixth Residential College was built for about 500 students, which was named by Meg Whitman . The college and the rebuilt Butler College created a mix of freshmen and graduate students who until then had been living a relatively separate student life at Princeton.

In 2012, Ms. Tilghman announced that she would be stepping down on June 30, 2013. Christopher L. Eisgruber became her successor on July 1, 2013.

Memberships and honorary positions

Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1990)
Member of the American Philosophical Society (2000)
Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1996)
Member of the Institute of Medicine at the National Academy of Medicine in Washington, DC , USA.
Member of the Royal Society of London (1995)
Founding member of the International Mammalian Genome Society
Member of the Board of Directors of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Member of the Supervisory Board of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology , Thuwal , Mecca Province , Saudi Arabia
Member of the Chemistry Innovation Council at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
President of the American Society for Cell Biology (2015)

honors and awards

1996: Princeton's President Award for Distinguished Teaching
2002: UNESCO L'Oréal Prize : Award for Women in Science
2003: Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for Developmental Biology (SDB)
2004: Honorary Doctor of Law from Harvard University Law School

2007: Genetics Society of America Medal

2010: Henry G. Friesen International Prize for her research in health care

2013: Honorary Doctorate from Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA

2014: Officer of the Order of Canada

Publications

1991: As co-editor with Kay E. Davies: Gene Expression and its Control . Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Plainview, New York State, ISBN 0-87969-359-2 .
1993: Associate Editor with Kay E. Davies: Genome Maps and Neurological Disorders , Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Plainview, New York State, USA, ISBN 0-87969-387-8 .
1994: with others: The Funding of Young Investigators in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences . Board on Biology, Commission on Life Sciences, National Research Council , National Academy Press, Washington DC USA, ISBN 0-309-05077-4 .
1999: The Sins of the Fathers and Mothers: Genomic Imprinting in Mammalian Development in: Cell , Volume 96, Issue 2.

Web links

biography

Individual evidence

↑ Natalie Angier: SCIENTIST AT WORK: Shirley M. Tilghman; Fighting and Studying Battle of the Sexes With Men and Mice. In: nytimes.com. June 11, 1996, accessed June 4, 2020 .
↑ Management team ( Memento from January 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
↑ If you just want to research, we tell you to go then. In: FAZ of May 29, 2011, p. N5

personal data
SURNAME	Tilghman, Shirley M.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Tilghman, Shirley Marie (full name); Caldwell, Shirley Marie (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Canadian molecular biologist, university professor and university president
DATE OF BIRTH	September 17, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH	Toronto , Ontario, Canada

[nytimes-960611-1] Natalie Angier: SCIENTIST AT WORK: Shirley M. Tilghman; Fighting and Studying Battle of the Sexes With Men and Mice. In: nytimes.com. June 11, 1996, accessed June 4, 2020 .

[2] Management team ( Memento from January 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive )

[3] If you just want to research, we tell you to go then. In: FAZ of May 29, 2011, p. N5