Google任命女生物学家,普林斯顿大学校长为公司董事

据国外媒体报道，Google今天宣布，普林斯顿大学校长、分子生物学教授雪莉-蒂尔曼(Shirley M. Tilghman)已经全票当选Google董事。蒂尔哈曼是一位世界知名学者，同时也是一位与众不同的教师，她因为在研究领域的成就和推动女性参与科学研究而受到全世界的尊敬。
Google董事会主席兼CEO埃里克-舒米特(Eric Schmidt)表示：“蒂尔曼加入Google董　　　　事会让我们感到非常骄傲。Google是一家源于大学研究的科技公司，因此我们希望能充分利用蒂尔曼在学术领域的专业才能。”蒂尔曼是一位加拿大人，她于2001年5月5日当选为普林斯顿大学历史上的第19位校长，并于2001年6月15日正式就职。在担任校长之前，她已经在普林斯顿大学工作了15年。
蒂尔曼1968年在加拿大皇后大学获得化学学士学位，在西非塞拉利昂担任两年的中学教师后，她获得了费城坦普尔大学生物化学的博士学位。之后，蒂尔曼进入美国国家卫生院进行博士后学习，并取得一系列震惊业界的科研成功，她参与了第一个哺乳动物基因的复制工程，后来她又在费城癌症研究所进行独立研究，取得了许多重要的科学突破。随后蒂尔曼进入宾夕法尼亚大学担任人类遗传学、生物化学、生物物理学的助理副教授。1986年蒂尔曼进入普林斯顿大学，担任生命科学教授。
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Shirley M. Tilghman
President
Professor of Molecular Biology
Shirley M. Tilghman was elected Princeton University‘s 19th president on May 5, 2001, and assumed office on June 15, 2001. An exceptional teacher and a world-renowned scholar and leader in the field of molecular biology, she served on the Princeton faculty for 15 years before being named president.
Tilghman, a native of Canada, received her Honors B.Sc. in chemistry from Queen‘s University in Kingston, Ontario, in 1968. After two years of secondary school teaching in Sierra Leone, West Africa, she obtained her Ph.D. in biochemistry from Temple University in Philadelphia.
During postdoctoral studies at the National Institutes of Health, she made a number of groundbreaking discoveries while participating in cloning the first mammalian gene, and then continued to make scientific breakthroughs as an independent investigator at the Institute for Cancer Research in Philadelphia and an adjunct associate professor of human genetics and biochemistry and biophysics at the University of Pennsylvania.
Tilghman came to Princeton in 1986 as the Howard A. Prior Professor of the Life Sciences. Two years later, she also joined the Howard Hughes Medical Institute as an investigator. In 1998, she took on additional responsibilities as the founding director of Princeton‘s multi-disciplinary Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics.
A member of the National Research Council‘s committee that set the blueprint for the U.S. effort in the Human Genome Project, Tilghman also was one of the founding members of the National Advisory Council of the Human Genome Project Initiative for the National Institutes of Health.
She is renowned not only for her pioneering research, but for her national leadership on behalf of women in science and for promoting efforts to make the early careers of young scientists as meaningful and productive as possible. She received national attention for a report on "Trends in the Careers of Life Scientists" that was issued in 1998 by a committee she chaired for the National Research Council, and she has helped launch the careers of many scholars as a member of the Pew Charitable Trusts Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences Selection Committee and the Lucille P. Markey Charitable Trust Scholar Selection Committee.
From 1993 through 2000, Tilghman chaired Princeton‘s Council on Science and Technology, which encourages the teaching of science and technology to students outside the sciences, and in 1996 she received Princeton‘s President‘s Award for Distinguished Teaching. She initiated the Princeton Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship, a program across all the science and engineering disciplines that brings postdoctoral students to Princeton each year to gain experience in both research and teaching.
In 2002, Tilghman was one of five winners of the L‘Oréal-UNESCO international For Women in Science Award, and the following year received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of Developmental Biology.
Tilghman is a member of the American Philosophical Society, the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine and the Royal Society of London. She serves as a Trustee of The Jackson Laboratory and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.