Shirley M. Tilghman
Shirley Marie Tilghman ( born September 17, 1946 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada ) is a Canadian molecular biologist and president of Princeton University.
Life
Tilghman graduated from high school in Winnipeg, Manitoba Province, reaching in 1968 the degree Bachelor of Science in Chemistry at Queen 's University in Kingston, Ontario. After that, she spent two years working at a secondary school in Sierra Leone as a doctrine pure. She received her PhD in Biochemistry at the U.S. Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Tilghman was married in the years 1970 to 1980 with Joseph Tilghman. The couple has a daughter and a son who both grew up in his father's household. Shirley M. Tilghman was launched in 1986 at Princeton University, where he was Howard A. Prior Professor of the Life Sciences. Two years later, she received an additional reputation as a researcher at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. In 1998, she was founding director of the multidisciplinary Lewis - Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics at her university. Since October 2005 she is member of the board of directors of Google.
President of Princeton University
2001 Tilghman came the first woman to the post of president of Princeton University. During her tenure, the sixth residential college for 500 students was built, which was given the name of Meg Whitman. The College and the reconstructed Butler College provide a mix of freshmen and already graduated students who were relatively separate student life at Princeton until then.
2012 informed Mrs Tilghman that she will resign June 30, 2013 from her post. Christopher L. Eisgrub will be her successor from 1 July 2013.
Associations and Volunteering
- Member of the American Philosophical Society
- Member of the National Academy of Sciences
- Member of the Institute of Medicine
- Fellow of the Royal Society of London
- Founding member of the International Mammalian Genome Society
- Member of the Supervisory Board of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Member of the Supervisory Board of the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
- Member of the Innovation Council of Chemistry, Queen's University