Princeton University President Dr. Shirley Tilghman Success

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Dr. Shirley Tilghman is the current President of Princeton University. She is the first female to hold the position and the third female president in the Ivy League. She is renowned for her pioneering research in mammalian developmental genetics, her national leadership on behalf of women in science, and promoting efforts to make the early careers of young scientists as meaningful and productive as possible. She was also a member of the team which cloned the first mammalian gene. She went on to demonstrate that the globin gene was spliced, a finding that helped confirm some of the revolutionary theories then emerging about gene behavior. As well as serving as President of Princeton, Tilghman has also served as a member of the board of directors of Google since October 2005.

She attended a conference here at the University of Ottawa today and signed a photo for me as she was leaving.