據(jù)國(guó)外媒體報(bào)道，Google今天宣布，普林斯頓大學(xué)校長(zhǎng)、分子生物學(xué)教授雪莉-蒂爾曼(Shirley M. Tilghman)已經(jīng)全票當(dāng)選Google董事。蒂爾哈曼是一位世界知名學(xué)者，同時(shí)也是一位與眾不同的教師，她因?yàn)樵谘芯款I(lǐng)域的成就和推動(dòng)女性參與科學(xué)研究而受到全世界的尊敬。
Google董事會(huì)主席兼CEO埃里克-舒米特(Eric Schmidt)表示：“蒂爾曼加入Google董 事會(huì)讓我們感到非常驕傲。Google是一家源于大學(xué)研究的科技公司，因此我們希望能充分利用蒂爾曼在學(xué)術(shù)領(lǐng)域的專(zhuān)業(yè)才能。”蒂爾曼是一位加拿大人，她于2001年5月5日當(dāng)選為普林斯頓大學(xué)歷史上的第19位校長(zhǎng)，并于2001年6月15日正式就職。在擔(dān)任校長(zhǎng)之前，她已經(jīng)在普林斯頓大學(xué)工作了15年。
蒂爾曼1968年在加拿大皇后大學(xué)獲得化學(xué)學(xué)士學(xué)位，在西非塞拉利昂擔(dān)任兩年的中學(xué)教師后，她獲得了費(fèi)城坦普爾大學(xué)生物化學(xué)的博士學(xué)位。之后，蒂爾曼進(jìn)入美國(guó)國(guó)家衛(wèi)生院進(jìn)行博士后學(xué)習(xí)，并取得一系列震驚業(yè)界的科研成功，她參與了第一個(gè)哺乳動(dòng)物基因的復(fù)制工程，后來(lái)她又在費(fèi)城癌癥研究所進(jìn)行獨(dú)立研究，取得了許多重要的科學(xué)突破。隨后蒂爾曼進(jìn)入賓夕法尼亞大學(xué)擔(dān)任人類(lèi)遺傳學(xué)、生物化學(xué)、生物物理學(xué)的助理副教授。1986年蒂爾曼進(jìn)入普林斯頓大學(xué)，擔(dān)任生命科學(xué)教授。
拓展知識(shí):
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.
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